The Independent - London, August 16th, 1996
Among the most idiosyncratic of orchestral conductors, Sergiu Celibidache was a rare figure in Britain, where his visits in the past 40 years can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Always a perfectionist, he priced himself beyond most orchestral budgets by his demands for rehearsal time, requiring a minimum of five or six sessions for any programme, and for similar reasons he restricted his association with orchestras with whom he was not familiar.
Yet his meticulous preparation made possible a degree of instinctive insight when it came to performance that could achieve powerful convictio...
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