Queen's Quarterly, September 22nd, 1999
When Sergiu Celibidache died on 14 August 1996, there were few notices of his passing in the North American press and certainly nothing like the fanfare accorded Sir Georg Solti's demise. In Europe, however, the Romanian conductor had been an icon for classical music connoisseurs as well as the subject of much controversy. The antithesis of Glenn Gould, Celibidache preferred the concert hall to the recording studio, and once suggested that the experience of listening to music on tape was akin to sleeping with a picture of Brigitte Bardot.
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