In Reply to: RE: Wow! - those are some SLOW timings! posted by Todd Krieger on April 29, 2015 at 02:48:56:
(by which I mean the complete DG and EMI sets). Like Steve Jobs, Celi had a kind of "reality distortion field" which, while you were in its presence, could convince you that the way he did things (no matter how slow the tempo in Celibidache's case) was the only possible right way to do them! Part of the reason for this is that he usually got more time than other conductors did for rehearsals, and this shows in the unity of approach from every member of the orchestra. I saw Celibidache and the Munich Phil live doing their (in)famous 85-minute rendition of the Bruckner Fourth, and it was this unanimity in thinking from every member of the orchestra which was so impressive - they really were all on the same page to a much greater extent than I've heard from almost any other orchestral performance. Of course, that doesn't mean that that's the only way to do Bruckner - as I mention above, the recent Honeck/Pittsburgh recording of Bruckner's Fourth is also magnificent IMHO, and also features impressively unified playing on the part of the orhcestra.
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- Yes - I have all the commercially issued Celi recordings - Chris from Lafayette 10:56:02 04/29/15 (0)