Conductors in rehearsal

[Eine Alpensinfonie]

There's also Britten rehearsing the War Requiem.

Also done secretly, but Britten wasn't too pleased about it.

[Stunsworth]

Also done secretly, but Britten wasn't too pleased about it.

Presented to him by John Culshaw as a birthday present if I rememer correctly.

[gradus]

There is also Bruno Walter rehearsing parts of the first and second movt from his stereo recording of the Mahler 9th, originally on the fourth side of the 2 LP set and well worth a hearing.
Of course there are videos of rehearsals by conductors already mentioned plus notably HvK - whose star seems inexplicably to have wained in recent years.

[Karafan]

The 1966 DG LP set of 'Tristan und Isolde' runs to nine sides; the tenth is given over to about 20 minutes of Karl Bohm rehearsing the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra with Wolfgang Windgassen, Eberhard Waechter and Erwin Wohlfahrt (who sings the Shepherd at the start of Act 3). Its in German, but the booklet gives an English translation. i have listened to it a long time ago, but its hard work for one like me who isnt musically trained, though I think it would be fascinating for musicians, especially those who have worked in orchestras and with singers. Unfortunately this rehearsal excerpt is not included on the CD version.

It seems to have been uploaded online Umslopogaas - thanks for the heads-up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwsVFpTwjk

[amateur51]

Barbirolli rehearsing students in a "warhorse":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NUzmypYiT0

... and professionals in a work then unfamiliar to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcDBBYBTP-4

Oh how I wish Evelyn had hidden his fags ... we might have had another half-a-dozen years

[amateur51]

André Previn with the Leicestershire Schools Orchestra in Beethoven ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=XIJt0DnGto8

and in Rachmaninov ...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=is84ss_Xc3c

I've watched the Symphonic Dances rehearsal so often and without meaning to I always wind up grinning like a loon and filling up. Cheers Maestro!

[amateur51]

Those lucky Leicestershire Schools students also rehearsed Ives with Sir Michael Tippett, whose idea opf a downbeat is to shout "GO!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=JbBYZzaSgnU

[Petrushka]

Presented to him by John Culshaw as a birthday present if I remember correctly.

Yes, a 50th birthday present. Unhappily, that birthday fell on November 22 1963, the day Kennedy was assassinated so nobody was in the mood for jollification anyway, and with Britten's displeasure the mood must have gone below zero.

[richardfinegold]

I have a Pierre Monteux disc leading the Amsterdam orchestra in the Eroica and featuring a rehearsal bit for the Funeral March. He sounds vital and animated, and I think he died few months later. He speaks to the Orchestra in French and what sounds like a pidgin German (Dutch?).

[akiralx]

And his contra-tent with the trumpeter when rehearsing the Enigma Variations.

BBC SO or LSO? If the latter hopefully not the same trumpeter who was recently punched by a thuggish Sir John Eliot Gardiner after a rehearsal (according to the recent Private Eye)...

[slarty]

BBC SO or LSO? If the latter hopefully not the same trumpeter who was recently punched by a thuggish Sir John Eliot Gardiner after a rehearsal (according to the recent Private Eye)...

Not the same guy, it was the BBCSO.

[slarty]

Celibidache in rehearsal and performance on DVD - Till Eulenspiegel from 1964 and Sheherazade from 1980 both with the Radio symphony orchestra Stuttgart. (Amazon asin no B000NOIWNK - copy and paste).
Even if you don't understand German, the rehearsal is still riveting to watch.

[mercia]

so not the remark to the tuba player ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NlmSqKBPuQ0

I expect you've seen this video of four conductors rehearsing ...... but not conducting

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pd2--ujAE4s

[Hornspieler]

Barbirolli rehearsing students in a "warhorse":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NUzmypYiT0

... and professionals in a work then unfamiliar to them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcDBBYBTP-4

... as told by both Ifor James and Roger Winfield....

Sir John Barbirolli was invited to conduct a rehearsal of the student orchestra at the Royal
Manchester College of Music. Sitting right under his nose was a young student who was so
petrified with fright that her bow was scarcely moving, even in the fortissimo passages.
Eventually, the Maestro could contain himself no longer. “Bah! Where did you learn to play
the fiddle? In a 'phone box?”

Hs

[Beef Oven!]

Sometimes it requires both verbal and non-verbal communication to get across the identity of which instrument the conductor has in mind. See if you can work out which instrumentalists it is that Celi is appealing to.