Jacek wrote:

>I have bought the second part od the DGG Celibidache Edition with Russian
>Orchestral works.  The first impressions are striking.
>
>I would like to ask for the opinions od Celibidache and for recommendation
>of his other recordings available.

Well from my own point of view,i don't reccomend any recording of
Celibedache,even if i never listened one of the very very few he did,even
if i never listened to him in a live performance.Maybe you will ask to me
why?.  Well i will explain my reason:  I am against to petulant people,who
think their performances are a kind of GOD revelations.  And i think
too,mysticism has it's own place(i am involved in it many years),but it is
not exactly musical performance, the adequate field in wich anybody can put
their "mystical"ideas inside.I know many people who were in live
performances, and specially in open masterclasses of Celibedache,and all of
them tell to me the same common element of his thinking.  People who don't
want to make a recordings for a lot of "philosophic" reasons(specially at
the time Celibedache made this "innovation") had a very easy way to built
a "myth" of themselves.Of course,if very few people listen to somebody,is
very easy to have some people who can speak about a legendary performance
of the "mysterious" and "strange" artist.  On the other side,as an
example,Gleen Gould made a lot of public performances and
recordings,sometimes very contradictory,sometimes supreme,but he made
people listen to his playing.Of course in his last years he just made
recordings.  I think the listeners (us) deserved a respect from the artists
.After all without a listener,an artist is not it.For these reasons and
many others, i never listened in my life a Celibedache performance, and i
never will do it.  A question.  Why he allowed to make some recordings of
his performances? I think i have an answer, but i am not sure,well.....
Regards.

Gerardo:.