Celibidache in rehearsal with the Berliner Philharmoniker

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Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 / Sergiu Celibidache · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Konzerthaus Berlin, March 1992 / Excerpt from the documentary "Sergiu Celibidache - the triumphant return"
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[@abelnicolae]

When zweite violins gather around the campfire, they tell horror stories about Celibidache.

[@Piflaser]

They had to work?

[@marianmrazik9813]

Wonder what horror stories Contrabassi tell about Toscanini...

[@cms8989]

@@marianmrazik9813 They don't tell any stories at all, just to avoid the 'Nam flashbacks that the mentioning of that name inevitably brings.

[@ClassicalDavid]

@@marianmrazik9813 CONTRABASSI COÑOOOOOOOOOOOOO YOU HAVE NO EARSS!!! NO EYES!!!

[@makyhsmakyhs6766]

They don't want to work, and don't want the strong talented conductors .

[@saidtoshimaru1832]

More like: "Celibidache and the Berliner Philharmoniker II: THE REVENGE OF CELI"

[@johntrevor2]

Don't reduce the matter to such a naive point of view.. Nevertheless, it must've been a struggle for the editors of this clip to find 3 minutes without tremendous embarassement for the BPO...

[@yqviolin]

哈哈哈genau

[@stephenjablonsky1941]

It is not every conductor who gets to yell at the Berlin Phil.

[@miryambarnabas2424]

Aww!

[@rubengreenberg2253]

Celibidache was most at home with first-class student orchestras. They were more receptive to his teaching. He wasn't just interested in rehearsing: he wanted above all to teach.

[@fredchu6693]

Great zoom at the lady on the Violin II, it completely reflects a section player under such a stress being in the orchestra which pays decently yet not making music for herself. It comes down to total dedication and sacrifice to be in a orchestra.

[@lugn.9632]

prodipe23 yeah whatever...

[@korosuke1788]

@prodipe23 I wonder how many people are driven nuts by that mentality. Dude, just chill. If she sucks, you fire her; you do not need to harrass.

[@geryo1968]

@prodipe23 Respect Beauty! Sigourney Weaver can do exactly whatrever face she sees fit.

[@fjfjrfjfjr]

Don’t worry. They are able to handle stress. Their audition process is brutal.

[@nikesamo2025]

There is a huge story behind Celi and Berlin caused by Karajan after Furtwängler. And the Berliner are well known till nowadays to be a very challenging orchestra. Excellent but very challenging, driving conductors nuts. This is what you get when you have to many soloists playing in an orchestra.

[@ionutzamfir5794]

Celi offered them many rehearsals ...and karahan offered them many reccordings. the truth(secret) lies within. dirty stuff...we dont even know. Celi could have sat next to.kings and emperors.....

[@dcar6530]

@@ionutzamfir5794 Celibidache is a high priest, while Karajan is a Kaiser.

[@ionutzamfir5794]

@@dcar6530 i dont know brother.. kaiser here is some pork smoked meat. tasty. karajan was very good at mixing the maionaise with his left hand. not in Celi's ckass...not by a long shot

[@TheLastOfTheFinest80]

0:55 It looked like that french horn player wanted to jump over to strangle Celibidache and the other players surrounding him were trying calm him down.

[@carlosbashuertas]

A turtle on tempos, a tiger on rehearsals!

[@illyaismaili6413]

XD

[@curaticac5391]

Didn't really like the "turtle" side.

[@stuartthomas6367]

All big cat. You’ve never seen one of them stalking?

[@jairochaves8916]

Great musicians that made part of my musical Life during two years. Honor and Pride. God Bless this orquestra.

[@LoreWha]

"Wir sind Philharmonika, wir müssen vibrieren …" ahahah Revenge is a dish best served cold So many tension and so many angry - bored faces

[@GustafGouda]

Have you heard the speech he gave before the rehearsal?

[@frankborder]

Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh they are pissed

[@A9al9]

No, do you mind talking about it please?

[@aleksandra_bezginova]

@@GustafGouda No. Tell us

[@vladiinsky]

@@GustafGouda no...?

[@rominn2184]

Sigourney Weaver had it with the cello, ghosts in her apartment, and NYC living and duly took up the violin, won the job in Berlin and up and moved to Germany where she just CAN'T with this conductor anymore..

[@karinmitschang9734]

😂😂😂

[@tonomora6837]

La piel se pone de gallina al escuchar a Celibidache dirigir la orquesta.

[@lizziewadsworth4392]

The female violinist at 2.46 secs looks really impressed.

[@SpongeMindTV]

LOL she's chewing gum and has that 'don't give a damn" face

[@robert72744]

I empathize with her and her discomfort at Celibidache's arrogance (great though he was at getting to the essence of a piece).

[@manfred4766]

barbara, was hätte wohl daniel gesagt, wenn du so respektlos geprobt hättest ?

[@mogmason6920]

Back desk second

[@alexandremyrat]

She never had to live such an experience before and she is not ready to have this again for the following years

[@Dimivim]

Rumors say that zweite were sent to their final destiny ☠

[@UrsusFelicis]

Lástima q no haya más vídeos que muestren la labor del director. ¡Qué fantástico ver a Celibidache preparando una de sus interpretaciones magistrales!

[@stephenestall9044]

What Celibidache achieved here was quite magical for any lover of Bruckner - whether it's the Berlin Phil or a lesser orchestra

[@LOLERXP]

Pretty sure people are reading a lot more into the orchestra's facial expressions than they should.

[@Mr.Javert]

He is known for making the auditorium hear evrey note. Because of the rehershals that were so long he was an expensive conductor for the Orchestras. People say if he would have been an animal, he would have been a turtle! I really love Celibidache

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

An unbelievably overrated conductor.

[@sanmarinojr]

oh, dear..

[@vladiinsky]

@@AndreyRubtsovRU You find me better Bruckner symphonies recordings and I'll agree with you. The only problem... there are no better ones.

[@tulliusagrippa5752]

vladiinsky aha!! A man with an open mind! Magnanimous and ostentatious admission the he may be wrong, followed immediately by a strenuous denial that he is. The epitome of open mindedness!! Hahahaha!!!

[@bathtubbarracuda2581]

Jochum and Skrowaczewski come to mind

[@adelaskari7952]

the players reaction completely shows why they have chosen "Dear Maestro Claudio Abbado". Abbado loved the philharmonic and players loved him too. and above all i completely missed you dear Claudio..

[@alexsamu3478]

Claudio? Who is that claudio? This is Celibidache

[@Minotauro_di_Chieti]

Shut the fuck up!!

[@sebastian9445]

A conductor job should not be chosen by their humbleness but by their musicality

[@MartinSmithMFM]

@@sebastian9445 humility is a pre requisite of any insight at all -

[@chrish12345]

ZWEITE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@themanamana81]

ERSTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@cheekychiko]

2.45 - that violinist hates her job :D

[@PianistinYaoYue]

@@cheekychiko sie soll ihren Job anderen aufgeschlossenen Musiker überlassen und eine Karriere mit Kaugummigeschäft starten.

[@lukeskywalker6809]

@@cheekychiko Chewing gum. :)

[@lukeskywalker6809]

@@themanamana81 ZWEITE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@yangluo]

I keep coming back to this video to check my German learning progress. Two months ago I could only understand 10% but now it’s 30%😂

[@svrfan]

Never knew Sigourney Weaver played second violin :) at 2:46

[@osrub5787]

Yeah… I don't know why Celi did not kick her out of the rehearsal. Seems she had more fun in gum chewing.

[@jin12345678]

I don't think she's chewing gum. She's just angry lol I do that sometimes, and people ask me if I'm chewing gum when I'm not.

[@robert72744]

:)

[@robert72744]

A great conductor but quite abusive and arrogant in his treatment of musicians.

[@bwgbwg1529]

didn't she play a musician in Ghostbusters where she was complaining about a conductor who shouted at the orchestra...? ;)

[@777galamian]

Was that second violinist chewing gum LOL! She also had that look like, "you want more seconds? I'll give you more, but with terrible sound and bow direction."

[@ipk4191]

@@MarkSlaterMusicyes, thats so professional. Especially when you think that they were all paid professional musicians.

[@joachimsaxer4812]

Their collaboration that led to the rendition of Bruckner 7 in 1992 was neither the orchestra's nor Celi's idea. FRG president Richard von Weizsäcker made both parties an offer they could not refuse. And Celi accepted under the condition that he would get twice as many rehearsals as usual. The orchestra must have known that a role in this "The Triumphant Return of Sergiu Celibidache" drama was forced upon them, the cameras being pointed at them from the first rehearsal and everything. You can guess that the chewing gum was a deliberate act, maybe even a statement in favour of the unique democratic constitution of the Berlin Philharmonic.

[@Muzakman37]

Double the rehearsal time? No wonder they looked in despair of him lol, they were unlikely to have been paid extra That said, Celi would've needed that long to get them to play Bruckner even halfway to what he would've wanted.

[@MrTann2010]

Ye, any other conductor would have had just 2-3 rehearsals, if they were lucky. Mind you, this is a piece the Berlin Philharmonic are probably familiar with. Celibidache asked and got 6 rehearsals, which is equivalent to 18 hours of rehearsal.

[@edwardjohn5]

Celi was used to conducting radio orchestra, if my memory serves me correctly. There, they have plenty of rehearsal time. I think that's why he asked for more rehearsals...

[@alfredoechevarrieta7512]

Gracias por esta intimidad de trabajo, de una persona a quien admiro.

[@jackwilmoresongs]

The opening of Bruckner's seventh had to me one of the most unforgettable first and lasting impressions.

[@Bogenvibrato]

Von jedem hätte sich dieses Orchester sicherlich nicht so behandeln lassen. Vielleicht wären Furtwängler und Karajan (oder der grantelnde Böhm) damit auch noch durchgekommen. Aber: Celi hat ja auch innerhalb der Parameter seiner sehr einzigen Interpretation unbedingt recht. Wenn er „übernehmen“ ruft, dann trifft er damit eben für diese Stelle genau ins Schwarze. Am Ende des Tages ist es gerade diese sehr breite Interpretation, die ich mir für Bruckner 7 am liebsten anhöre. Borwitzkys Anstrengungen, seine Gesichtszüge bei den zynischen Bemerkungen über das philharmonische Vibrato nicht komplett entgleisen zu lassen, sind alleine schon dieses Video wert. Zum Glück besitze ich davon die Bluray. Ein Highlight in der Geschichte des Orchesters und in der Interpretationsgeschichte der Bruckner - Symphonien.

[@mariusfelixlange6709]

Bemerkenswerterweise ist dieser Dokumentarfilm von einem der bedeutendsten deutschen Filmregisseure gedreht worden....

[@MartinSmithMFM]

@@mariusfelixlange6709 He doesn't have to shout. he should have explained all that in advance. Less vibrato and take over the phrase. I hate him.

[@kaleidoscopio5]

He seems a little harsh, but he was showing his points.

[@wolfie71231]

The Philharmonic chose Karajan over Celibidache, and it shows.

[@ricardocoimbra9259]

VIOLAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!

[@suezuccati304]

VIOOOOOLAAAAA!!!!! *frowns comically

[@ricardonascimento6020]

Esse é o cara!!!! Um gênio!!! Extrai até o último nuance da passagem!!! Expressão máxima da música! Cuidado, minuciosidade (imprescindíveis - ainda mais em se tratando de Bruckner). EXTRAORDINÁRIO!!! Bravíssimo!!! Não teria o ensaio completo?

[@wardropper]

It is so easy these days for people to feel offended when confronted with passionate authority. But the way Maestro C. works is absolutely perfect, and the results are always beautiful and interesting. It must surely have been a privilege and a joy to work with him. I just have one pet-quibble about string tremolo: Too many players play that as if it were relaxed 16th-notes. When the music is very quiet, a supple wrist certainly allows an exciting, fizzing background sound, but if the music gets louder, the wrist alone doesn't have enough strength for a powerful crescendo, as he wanted from the Second Violins. Then the larger muscles have to come into play. However, that means continuing to play fast notes! Training and much effort are needed!

[@ektorastartanis]

Legend!

[@bobcochran2890]

The look on their faces says it all. “Only two more rehearsals and three concerts with this nut.” A friend once told me his tempos were so slow and his rehearsals so deadly that there was a near revolt.

[@vladiinsky]

Yet, the Bruckner recordings of this "nut" are second to none.

[@Blittsplitt5]

@@vladiinsky Yea, crazy isn't it?

[@vjekop932]

@@vladiinsky wrong, they are great, but there were many equally wonderful Bruckner conductors. Jochum and Wand in almost all symphonies, Karajan in 7,8 and 9, Solti in the early symphonies... Celibidache nuts worship him like he is some god and don't even get me started on his bullshit philosophical nonsense he spewed. A great Bruckner conductor, nothing more and nothing less.

[@corgansow7176]

@@vjekop932 Solti a great bruckner conductor? Chuckle

[@vjekop932]

@@corgansow7176 learn how to read first, then respond

[@karldelavigne8134]

I wonder how much of this was play-acting for the cameras. Celibidache was very arrogant and had a large ego, even in his faux humility. On the other hand, for all his faults, his Bruckner performances were quite exceptional. This one, in the concert given after these rehearsals and preserved on video, makes you want to compare all others to it as a reference point.

[@Piflaser]

He was loud but not arrogant.

[@karldelavigne8134]

@@Piflaser I think you should watch some interviews with him. He was arrogant, dismissing other conductors and seeing himself as the sole disciple of truth in music.

[@Piflaser]

@@karldelavigne8134 Here he is very nice: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z3abhGtsaMufn7c

[@Blittsplitt5]

@@karldelavigne8134 holy shit

[@europeanmusicinstitutevien3137]

@@karldelavigne8134 This is what some people like to think. There were even jokes about that, but I can witness that he was not at all an arrogant person. Very strict in rehearsing but also a fine comrade.

[@mariusmuresan7839]

a GENIUS, no doubt ! Viva Ginta Latina !

[@mayorcooper9856]

This is a real revenge towards the Berliner Philharmoniker , , for not choosing him as next chief conductor, , ,after Furtwängler.

[@pistol625]

Sow Yoong Wai its true but the Music was Most of the time extreme shitty

[@pistol625]

Sow Yoong Wai in conparison Not... Karajan die Dome Great work. Das einzige was er wirklich konnte war Mahler oder Brahms zu spielen

[@martinstremlow2997]

@@pistol625 karajan was one of the really great conductors of 2nd half of the 20th century. He was not limited to Mahler and Brahms. He guided the berliner philhamoniker to great success and worldwide recognition. I am not a fan of Karajan but I greatly respect his artistic competence and dedication.

[@pistol625]

Marcio Fernandes i cant agree with this

[@Luckyluc1151]

38 years after that episode a revenge makes no sense. Nobody from that era was in the orchestra anymore. I simply think that Celibidache wants to show (and maybe to teach) a different way to make music and his ideas about playing Bruckner. But no revenge. Instead, at the beginning of the rehearsals he praised the BPO for their achievements and consistency during the decades.

[@Mediterraneo2004]

I notice some improbations on the part of some musicians towards Celibidache;-)) But have you ever listened to the rehearsals of Arturo Toscanini? offends the musicians of NBC with bad words!

[@TheStockwell]

Abbado attending Toscanini rehearsals. La Scala, I think. He was amazed by Toscanini's talent and technique - but disgusted and appalled at how he treated the musicians.

[@sfbirdclub]

@@TheStockwell There are recordings available. It is nothing short of shameful. I don't care how good a musical mind he was. Just imagine how great it could have been if had actually RESPECTED his musicians and worked WITH THEM!!

[@ladyhawkke7002]

Mediterraneo2004 Toscanini was crazy

[@Symphing12]

@@sfbirdclub yeah there's that video of him yelling at the double bass section which is pretty informative.

[@Muzakman37]

It's a tricky one. I once had a chat with the Bari Sax player in Buddy Rich's Big Band for years, and stories of Buddy's red hot temper were legion. But he brushed it off and said 'Yeah he was a perfectionist,for sure,and despised tardiness, but he always treated us well and looked after us'. This kinda said to me that great musicians leading bands like Buddy Rich and Toscanini were likely absolute perfectionists and horrors in rehearsals, but perhaps it was accepted cos the standards achieved were so high, and stood the test of time, and the gigs & recordings they produced were just of the highest order, which is ultimately what every top pro musician wants to achieve. They must've all known that Toscanini was a git in rehearsals, he was already an old man by the time of that clip and World famous, so they would've heard plenty of stories about him before they joined the Orchestra, and who knows, perhaps plenty of them wanted to join the Orchestra precisely because Toscanini was in charge. They were probably also paid handsomely which, let's be honest, helps a great deal when it comes to dealing with the outbursts lol. All that being said, the behaviour of the Soltis,the Toscaninis, the Reiners and the Celibidaches of this World were very much of their time, conductors can't really behave like that on the circuit these days, and get away with it.

[@eytonshalom]

yowza, the 2nd violin at 2:45 is flushed with anger and bowing like she wants to hurt somone...

[@geryo1968]

A 30 yo Siggy eager to counter the alien.

[@Balfour.]

I've heard Maestro Abbado once talking how egomaniacal and tyrannical conductors horrified him. His work ethic was the exact opposite, and he was one of the greatest regardless. So don't pay attention to those who say a boss has to be a complete jerk, a good boss is no other thing than a positive leader, that's it.

[@Paroles_et_Musique]

I don't see anything egomaniacal and tyrannical in this rehearsal, he gives vocally the solution, negative criticism is when you propose nothing.

[@Balfour.]

Forget about this clip. If you know who Celibidache was - his bitter, greater-than-life character, his attitude towards musicians and performers, especially women, and his self-absorbed stance about music, almost to a point where his own mystic interpretation and reasonings precede the music itself - then you know what I'm talking about.

[@Paroles_et_Musique]

@@Balfour. I know he was one of the greatest musicians of our century. People wish normality but also exceptionalism, all in same. Not always possible.

[@cleitonxavier3269]

Um mestre precisa ser somente ele mesmo. Cada um em sua maneira.

[@usnhorn]

fergus is so young!

[@dankafurtw2581]

Tony Smouse I KNOW!🙊

[@geryo1968]

Siggy too.

[@davidmarciniak9136]

La violoniste au chewing gum est au bout de sa vie 😅😅

[@jackkenefick2696]

SECONDS!!! We'll shake ourselves apart captain!!!

[@cowboytim9882]

OMG, it's Rex Tillerson!

[@juliobaroneneto6297]

I'd like to know how he reaches to control what he says to the musicians... How they obey?

[@hrt700]

모두 열받았는데 해석에 어떤 의문도 가지지못하고 연주하는게 재밌네요ㅋㅋㅋ 첼리비다케는 위대한 지휘자에요

[@RodolfoLimacbx]

*2:48** • She represents me! Hahahah*

[@yuehchopin]

2:46 hat die Geigerin große Wut und ist der schönste Moment überhaupt, viel besser zu sehen als das unsinnige Schreien von Maestro Celibidache! Danke für die Sendung.

[@venutti]

Sie ist Geigerin? Sie machte auf mich den Eindruck einer bloßen Handwerkerin.

[@geryo1968]

@@venutti Na hören Sie mal! Sie ist toll, sie ist wunderschön, UND sie ist eine dreißigjährige Sigourney Weaver.

[@geryo1968]

Schönster Moment und schönste Geigerin!

[@Joker-lt7pf]

@@geryo1968 😂😂😂😂👍👉😆tell me what u take

[@Adrian-dn6lw]

A true romanian,we..romanians,we regreat the death of such a great man :(

[@maria-nh8qo]

those who are not Romanian as well, (I speak for myself). August 14th, sad...... Cu dragoste Maestro. The BEST!!!!!!

[@47130252]

Ustedes los rumanos y también muchos españoles hemos lamentado la desaparición del que consideramos mejor director del mundo.

[@geryo1968]

Celibidache also spoke a great Italian!

[@AccompanimentWorld]

Great conductor, great musicians, they needed just understand each other, not fight.. can not say more because i don’t know background of these moments which is just a short part of a too long rehearsal...

[@sebastian9445]

Agreed

[@dinodragovic8537]

2:46!! :'D

[@jcceledon33]

A reference of Bruckner's 7th, like Karajan's 8th in St. Florian

[@Quim141]

Amazing.

[@wolfajacksantorujack2224]

Wow the quality of the video tho

[@faithannetua6409]

ikr i thought it was 2015 or something

[@theodentherenewed4785]

Interesting, the musicians don't seem to be amused by Celibidache's demeanor and he himself does not seem to be too happy with what he's hearing. Not like the best environment to create top performances.

[@LOLERXP]

Not amused by his demeanor? They suffered through Karajan for almost 4 decades lol

[@edwardjohn5]

​@@LOLERXPwas about to say the same thing lol

[@guitarfan4215]

Such a revenge after 40 years! Celi humiliating the Philarmoniker and destroying Karajan's legacy in just a sentence... "Wir sind die Philarmoniker, wir muessen vibrieren".

[@GustafGouda]

Have you heard the speech he gave before the rehearsal?

[@guitarfan4215]

No. What did he say?

[@maelperron_guerra4946]

@@GustafGouda what did he say? We want to know !!

[@guitarfan4215]

@@maelperron_guerra4946 He praised the Berliner Philarmoniker and their path through the years and mentioned the fact that many of them are great virtuoso playing in an orchestra. Anyway, such a speech was, in my opinion, only partially true. It could have been a "captatio benevolentiae", a way to create some empathy with the orchestra, because that orchestra had Karajan for 40 years and they all knew what bad things Celibidache thought (and said!) about Karajan. In an interview he defined Karajan "die tragischste Erscheinung aller Dirigenten" (the most tragic figure of a conductor"). After all that, Celibidache needed to create some kind of empathy with an orchestra where all the musicians grew under Karajan's leadership and who presumably worshiped Karajan. So, concluding, maybe Celibidache respected the musicians of the orchestra and somehow also the path that they did, but he never mentioned Karajan in his speech and the things he says during the rehearsals express very clearly his thoughts about the conception of music of the Berliner Philarmoniker.

[@sanmarinojr]

Can't believe the people judging the master for his pedantic work. Cause we know how a Celibidache orchestra sounds - no shortcuts!

[@emmanuelagudo4918]

If only Celibidache can whisper 'zweite'. omg!

[@voraten7206]

VIOLA! VIOLAAA!!!! VIIIOOOOLLLLAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@darthraptor84]

So, the violas are not too bad 😂

[@thesaucegroup1877]

2021 anyone?

[@juanuceda401]

VIOLA!!!!! VIOLA!!!!!! VIOLA!!!!!!!

[@chriscross4004]

He managed to fire a violinist of the Münchner Philharmoniker because he didn't like his facial expression.

[@abelnicolae]

oh I can understand him son well ☺️

[@TheGuitarardizio]

Wonderful

[@JOSEMANUELSEIJASFERNANDE-md2rh]

Genio Celibidache.

[@GundulaRach]

Kleiber and Furtwängler are the Masters ! Celibidache and Karajan are ok !

[@michaeldoyle6702]

That woman chewing gum and rolling her eyes towards the end wouldn't last a second under Karajan. SO unprofessional especially given the stature, rightfully high, of Celibidache.

[@pascal2964]

oui mais le ton de Celibidache n'invite pas à se surpasser. A se raidir et à bouder plutôt. Il pourrait dire les choses de manière plus amène.

[@lilydog1000]

Celi was displaying crude ignorance here. The 2nd violin didn't deserve to be shouted at.

[@obiwan88]

Finally, someone sharing the truth about Celibidache's inhumanity to his fellow musicians in such eloquence. He really doesn't deserved to be revered so much. His Bruckner is grossly off tempo, totally ignoring the wishes of the composer, and still, people worship him like a deity. Everytime I hear some young person telling me how good Celi is, I asked myself, "When will justice come?"

[@RumoAoSul]

Have you ever heard his orchestra live?

[@KerimWirthSuperLps]

Alex Lancaster Very good points. Totally agreed.

[@eudesdelafon2453]

wunderbar !

[@vladimirbakula6289]

VIOLA!!!

[@nikolaoskal7438]

I 'm surprised the musicians didn't throw anything at him. They showed great restrain.

[@aristideduplessis8151]

That's because they're professionals. Although it did look like Borwitzky (1st cellist) wanted to get up and punch him! ;) ;)

[@martinstremlow2997]

Was Celibidache really one of the most remarkable conductors of the 2and half of the 20th century?

[@yonahzur3755]

Yes

[@graham7276]

Yes

[@paulocordaro8748]

No

[@illyaismaili6413]

yes

[@nomistraveller780]

Clearly no!

[@Leon-Hardt]

02:46 "ahh!, come on Cheli"

[@robert72744]

She recognizes his greatness but hates the manner in which he asks for more intensity.

[@GerrlichStudios]

un maestro

[@pedromoyaguzman7517]

Great playing from the orchestra!! No matter what, he was a colossal ass

[@mikedunn7553]

His comment to the Violist 'got me'...(don't mind admitting it!)

[@ronaldrabanda2907]

So ist es 🎻🎻🎻🎼🎼🎼

[@bwgbwg1529]

just compare Karajan's rehearsals to these. it's quite obvious then why the musicians were so splendidly happy... ;)

[@MrTann2010]

Karajan was known to be extremely brutal in rehearsals as well, and he was despised and hated in his final years at the Berliner Philharmoniker. By this time, they were under Abbado, whose approach in rehearsals could not have been any different to Karajan and Celibidache which is what made him so popular by the musicians

[@michaeleickermann1706]

1:55 "das ist sehr berauschend alles..." Celi geht mit dem Karajan-Klang der Philharmoniker aber sehr fair um...

[@Anthonyprinciotti]

This is a triumph?

[@jaschenski]

Reminds me of my father's stories about Hugo Rignauld - "Tire yourselves ...!"

[@jermainehicks1106]

Who is the cellist with the glasses at 1:55?

[@berlinphil]

Dear Jermaine Hicks, Many thanks for your kind message. It is Ottomar Borwitzky, 1st Principal Cello 1956-1993. All the best, Patricia

[@jermainehicks1106]

@@berlinphil Thank you very much. I've been trying to find out his name for weeks.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

Good they didn't work a lot with him after that.

[@vladiinsky]

You must suffer if you wanna do art.

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

@@vladiinsky yeah. Silly comments just keep coming...

[@vladiinsky]

@@AndreyRubtsovRU what is silly about that? Playing in Berliner doesn't make you an almighty god, obviously the players need genius conductors to make the orchestra sound exceptional. He was right about the phrasing. Ok - the screaming is annoying, but at least the result was great, not average. What do you think great football managers do in the training with world class players? Speak tenderly, not to insult their ego? Might not always be the case, I think. I worked with average conductors who were nice and the concerts were ok, and with a handful of great ones, some of which was pretty annoying in the rehs. But my god I remember only those concerts so well... This guy is remembered by his Bruckner. Who cares if the 1st cello didn't want to be in the rehearsal. I bet he loved the concert!

[@AndreyRubtsovRU]

@@vladiinsky there are thankfully plenty of conductors who get the result without insults and shouting

[@joaquim64rodrigues]

@@AndreyRubtsovRU actually better results. This is stupid from any point of view. Just wasting time and money on a useless "rehearsal"

[@joanmarin7217]

Ufffff el mas grande!!!

[@terryking7134]

the gum-chewing 2nd says it all....

[@johnappleyard4123]

The female violinist entratain idea to provoke Celibidache to a duel…

[@user-fk4fn3vn3f]

A true conductor should fight against mannerisms which almost all of orchestras fall into. I really miss another Celibidache who is able to fully control the orchestra

[@rafaelgmota]

VIOLA!

[@artlexander387]

VIOLAAA

[@omarbayramov8092]

За жевание жвачки у нас выгоняли с репетиции. А тут, перед ней великий Челибидаке, а она кривляется, жуёт и делает одолжение. Безобразие.

[@paralogix6216]

An exasperating slowness. You shouldn't conduct an orchestra like that. Furtwangler and Celibidache were recognized as directors of pause and slowness. Furtwangler doesn't always do it. Giulini is somewhere between the two for the great romantics. But as for the Romanian director, he is the epitome of unacceptable: what a way to exaggerate. That's why orchestras like the Berlin Philharmonic chose individuals like Karajan and others. You just can't turn the orchestra into a barely moving hippo just because the conductor it that way. I agree with Celibidache on one thing, you have to the notes. Alright. But you must play the notes in public, not think the notes in public. That is too wrong. Interesting results obtained by Celibidache but for the ears and patience of very few.

[@bwgbwg1529]

man vergleiche einmal Proben von Karajan mit diesen. da wird einem schnell klar, wie es zu diesen Gesichtsausdrücken kommt ;)

[@Piflaser]

Das liegt am Saal?

[@Falstaff1972]

Violaaa!!!

[@kairumitchell5365]

Who is that violinist at 2:46?

[@fiogray]

Sigourney Weaver.

[@barney6888]

ya they are the philharmonic and Furtwangler and Karajan are 10x the conductor celi is

[@antoniorodolpho6835]

Besta quadrada!

[@stevenj9970]

How to piss off an Orchestra.....

[@scatterbomb1]

Celibidache, The Master.......

[@robert72744]

a true master but a brutal one.

[@fredrictengstrom9522]

Ich bin ein mensch Also a musician -not so good- I wonder if i ... Bit Well fine music craves what i aint got BUT feel Thank u Fine orchestra 2 Ds

[@MrOlogramma]

La violinista alla fine sta pensando: li mortacci tua