Got another one! - Oh how I love to talk to myself!

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This one too is by EuroArts and about
Sergiu Celibidache. It is a 1965 recording of the rehearsal and then performance of
Richard Strauss's Till Eulenspiegle's lustige Streiche with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart.
Now I have seen the Maestro working with his musicians, bringing out minute details in this and that passage, making them play it again and again and once more until they get it exactly the way he wants them to play. I was surprised by his agility on the podium at age 53, very close to Leonard Bernstein's gymnastics, minus the two foot high leaps of course. An interesting rebuke to a hornist: "Mein Herr, Sie spielen die Noten, aber nicht die Musik!" - "Sir, you are playing the notes but not the music!"
The second feature of on the DVD is a studio performance of
Rimsky-Korsakov's Sheherazade with the same orchestra. I have both of those performances on CD, but now that I have seen the Maestro and his musicians working together, creating musical beauty, I understand and enjoy them even more.