Carlo Maria Giulini in Rehearsal: Symphony 9 D Min
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DVD: Region Code 1Audio: English (Unknown); French (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Italian (Original Language)
Format: Classical, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
DVD Release Date: 2004-11-16
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Arthaus Musik
DVD Reviews of Carlo Maria Giulini in Rehearsal: Symphony 9 D Min
DVD Review: A Valuable Documentation of Giulini's Rehearsal Technique...
Summary: 5 Stars
...and a pretty good performance of the Bruckner Ninth Symphony, too. Unfortunately the Stuttgart Radio Symphony has to compete with audio recordings of Giulini conducting far better orchestras--the Vienna Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony.
This DVD comes from 1997 when Giulini was 83 years old and is divided into two sections, a rehearsal and then a concert performance of the Bruckner symphony. The first part is the more interesting to me and I suspect to anyone buying this release, although I must say that the Stuttgarters give him their all in the performance; more about that below. As far as I know this is the only rehearsal DVD of Giulini currently available. When Giulini comes out to begin the rehearsal he looks frail, walks slowly, seems a little diffident (although his German is fluent and idiomatic). But within a few minutes he seems energized and from then on one is much less aware of his advanced age and physical health. (He has just celebrated his 90th birthday but is in poor health, I believe.) He is uniformly kind and collegial in his approach to the orchestral musicians, yet he is able to stop and get precisely what he wants from individual musicians or sections of the orchestra. There is one point where he is not getting what he wants from the trumpets and trombones and one can see him slightly losing patience after a couple of repetitions of the same passage, but then there is a rather obvious edit before yet another repetition and one never quite hears whether they give him what he wants. Later, in the concert performance, though, it is clear that they managed what he wanted--it had to do with a diminuendo to pianissimo that leads to a quick return to a mezzo-piano that allows the first trumpet to bring out the thematic line that otherwise would be lost in the surrounding harmony.
Throughout the hour-long rehearsal section, Giulini is an efficient rehearser and does not lose any time with philosophizing or unnecessary chatter. He gives strictly musical and technical instructions. He is free with compliments, muttering 'Schön' or 'Bravi' from time to time.
As he grew older Giulini tended, in this repertoire, to get slower and broader in his tempi. One can trace this with his three recordings of the Bruckner Ninth. Interestingly, this one, eight years after his masterful 1989 audio recording with the Vienna Philharmonic, is several minutes faster. Perhaps that is because this was a live recording. I certainly can't pretend to know. But familiarity with two of those three earlier recordings allows me to make some comparisons. There is one spot 5 minutes into the Second Movement--at the lead in to a return to the main theme--where he makes a rather breathless accelerando that was not so obvious in the earlier recordings and frankly it stuck out as rather artificial to me. But otherwise I don't detect any obvious tempi alterations as compared with the earlier recordings. I do suspect that the first movement is where the alteration lies. In any event, it is a matter of only three or four minutes overall. As in his previous recordings, the exalted Third Movement brings out the best in Giulini. He was always, and particularly so in his later years, what I would call a 'spiritual' conductor. His recording of the Mahler Ninth with the Chicago, for instance, bears that out. And that is certainly true here; perhaps here it seems partly so because of Bruckner's use of a theme in the last movement that is reminiscent of the Dresden Amen. For me, this last movement is the high point of the performance. It is clear that the Stuttgart orchestra is caught up and they play like angels. They do not have the depth of sound that the Vienna or the Chicago do, but the strings have enough velvet and the horns and Wagner tubas in particular sound pretty close to those of the VPO. Overall, this is worthy performance and it is a treasure to be able to SEE Giulini conduct.
A worthwhile issue.
TT=2hrs 3mins
Scott Morrison
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Description of Carlo Maria Giulini in Rehearsal: Symphony 9 D Min
Giulini made his debut as an opera and concert conductor in the 1940s, then led Milan?s Radio Orchestra and worked at La Scala and Covent Garden. He was principal guest conductor of the Chicago Symphony, principal conductor of the Vienna Symphony and music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. He has worked with several generations of musicians over the course of his long career. His repertoire comprises all the great symphonic and operatic works. Documented by many recordings, Giulini?s outstanding talent turns his performances into milestones of interpretation, as one critic has astutely observed. In this program, we witness the creation of one of these milestones as we observe Giulini rehearsing Anton Bruckner?s Ninth Symphony with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Picture Format: 4:3 ? Sound Format: PCM Stereo ? Subtitles: D, F, GB,SPClassical Music CDs
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