Anton Bruckner: Celibidache conducts: Bruckner Symphony No. 9 (Opus Arte DVD)

The conductor Sergiu Celibidache was a legend in his own lifetime, mesmerising orchestras with his intensity and brilliance, both in rehearsals and in performances – which were always conducted from memory. His own connection with Bruckner's last great symphony is powerfully evident in this performance. The Celibidache Symphonic Series celebrates the historic release onto DVD of rare footage of the few performances ever recorded for television.

Celibidache conducting Bruckner’s Symphony no. 9 in D Minor with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della RAI in this 1969 Turin recording.

Repertoire Feierlich, misterioso
Scherzo: Bewegt, lebhaft – Trio: Schnell
Adagio: Langsam, feierlich

Plus
Includes 32-page booklet in three languages, with a newly-commissioned essay from Misha Donat on the genius of Celibidache

Reviews
‘Sergiu Celibidache's Bruckner is often monumental. It is also revelatory in a way no other Bruckner conductor equals. Celibidache conducts these great symphonies as if he were King Lear himself, for in every bar of Bruckner's scores he scales heights of pathos and emotion most other conductors simply do not see in Bruckner's writing.’ Music-web International

‘Indeed, it is in the Bruckner symphonies that all of Celi’s qualities coalesce to achieve, in Marcus Herzog’s apt phrase, a simultaneity of opposites - detail within architecture, power without melodrama, melody embedded in harmony. Above all, Celi makes the artificial conventions of symphonic form seem so natural and utterly human. Alongside Furtwangler’s strikingly different but equally valid sense of personal drama, this is the most magnificent Bruckner I’ve ever heard.’ Classical Notes.net

CAT NO: OA 0976 D
FORMAT: All Formats
REGIONS: All Regions
PICTURE FORMAT: 4:3
LENGTH: 62 Mins
SOUND: LPCM MONO
SUBTITLES: N/A
RELEASED: 01/04/2007
NO OF DISCS: 1