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Post Subject: Celibidache Bruckner Eighth last night.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/30/2013
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I was inspired by all of those conversations at the site about Celibidache and Bruckner and last night I decided to listen the Eighth from Celibidache and Münchner Philharmoniker. This is live recording of Nowak version from. I do not know the year of the recording; he is it many time, it is on EMI Classic, the back disk.

With all appeared majesty of the performance I still do not like it. It is very slow and leisurely (which is great in my book), it has appearing all right enunciation at the right spots but it has that constant Celibidache tendency to look something where nothing needs to be found. Bruckner sound is about harmonies, sonorities and connectivity everything to everything. In Celibidache hands Bruckner feel more like a Christmas tree that was decorated by a tasteless decorator. All those ugly and unwarranted single instruments accents that Celibidache tossed all across the symphony are truly bothering me. Sure, there are some inner-sections talking in Bruckner sound but it has to be subordinated and coordinated with everything else. Celibidache’s happy trumpets and happy horns are just pop up hear and there like mushrooms after rain, without any reasons and sensibility and this is not how Bruckner shall sound in my view.

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