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As anyone else I have developed my own ways to buy music. Beside any of my current interests, I, for instance, have some conductors who’s recording I buy no mater what: Scherchen, Golovanov, Barbirolli, Bohm.... Among pianists it would be probably the only one pianist whom I buy “on spot" if I do not have the given performance: Arturo Bendetti Michelangeli. I juts love whatever he did it I kind of think that I heard whatever he recorded… and I never was sorry…

Today I stopped by in a quite crapy second hand records store and suddenly I pulled out something that made me to laugh. It was Japanese released, “no label”-cheap, with crappy B/W jacket CD containing Michelangeli playing Beethoven’s  Piano Concerto #5 with… nope!… not with  Steinberg, Giulini or Freccia  but “live” with Sergiu Celibidache, but not with Swedish orchestra but with Paris Symphony Orchestra. This was not something just new for me but it was something very promising new. I droolingly paid those $6.99 and anticipating a HUGE THRILL walked out of the store.

It was it! The Michelangeli did it again! He and Celibidache did something very spectacular with this work! Celibidache actulay made the orchestra sound in the same way how Michelangeli naturally plays and all-together it worked absolutely splendid! I was listening it while was driving home in my car and… do you know that feeling when you do not really realize when a performance is over?

Anyhow, this is absolutely amassing live recording it is high recommended to get. Ironically, the quality of recording is very high as well. I do not know when It was recorded but I presume that somewhen in the beginning of the 70x…

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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