Sergiu

Another digital feature from the Warner Classics live series of Celibidache & The Münich Philharmonie of Bruckner's 7th & 9th Symphony.

Another digital feature from the Warner Classics live series of Celibidache & The Münich Philharmonie of Bruckner's 5th & 8th Symphony.

His Tchaikovsky is often revelatory (none here, unfortunately), but all of that pales beside his quite extraordinary interpretation of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. No other version I have heard so clearly captures the rich sonority of this score, and makes the contrast between the fury of the elements and the beguiling sensuousness of the prince and his princess so achingly apparent.

Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 was completed in 1812 and conducted its premier on December 8, 1813 in the University of Vienna. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 is widely viewed as a symphony of dance, where as, Wagner described it as “the apotheosis of the dance.” Its highly enjoyable, haunting 2nd movement was often most encored.

With a few exceptions, the music Pettersson composed after his nine-month hospital stay (1970-1971) are characterized by a mood of almost unrelieved rage. This 1978 is NOT one of the exceptions, even though it was composed after Pettersson was granted free housing by the Swedish government. (His polyarthritis had made him literally a prisoner of his earlier, depressing fourth-floor apartment.) Even the fact that for the first time in his life he was living in pleasant surroundings and considered this time the happiest in his life did not mitigate this great anger. After all, he had lived with the arthritis for 25 years, and now was stricken with cancer. This symphony quotes the same song that Symphony no 6 was built on……..

Eleven CD box set. 2012 marks the centenary of maestro Sergi - Celibidache's birth. Celibidache was without question one of the most important and original conductors in recent memory.

Brought together here in four special volumes the Celibidache series celebrates the extraordinary legacy of his collaboration with the Müncher Philharmoniker portraying the excitement and atmosphere of their live performances.