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Celibidache is dead

Aug.29, 1996
Franck ERNOULD <fernould at imaginet.fr>

Jean-Pascal Vachon wrote:

>
> >>Wednesday night Sergiu Celibidache, chief conductor of the Muenchener
> >>Philharmoniker since 1979 died in Paris, aged 84. He will be buried in Paris.
> >>He never wanted to make recordings: "Listening to records is like making
> >>love to a photograph of Brigitte Bardot".
>
> Interestingly, no one mentionned the obvious contradiction between not
> doing commercial recordings for "philosophical" reasons and making
> video recordings... If listening to record is like making love to
> a photograph of BB, what is it like to watch a video?
> I know I'm walking on thin ice here but I'd like to have some comments...
> 
> Jean-Pascal Vachon
> Unviersity of Vienna

There's some truth in what you sais. If the video has been shot in concert and in "real time", without edit or subsequent "pastes", then it has good chances to be less artificial than a studio recording, where the point has become to be perfect. This sterile seek of perfection has been making the records worse and worse, artistically speaking, for now more than 30 years.

One question remains, however : why would Celibidache not allow the "completely live recorded" records ? He left with the answer to that question...


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