I found this today and it's obviously at least two decades old; Riccardo Muti in rehearsal with Debussy's "La Mer". It doesn't tell which orchestra but what is striking in this extract is Muti's wonderful singing-voice and wonderful pitch. He sings the passage using solfege so that the orchestra knows exactly how it should be played - this is at around 3'30" onwards! Oh, he's such a gorgeous hunk!! And with more charm than the law allows!!
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Muti continues here, briefly, with the same orchestra, playing rather better than in the link above:
His detractors say he is famously tyrannical, but is playing to the cameras here: 'More and more I less believe in what the conductors can do'. Really? -
I harbour an irreverent fascination with his hair - must be the most immaculately and expensively scissored barnet in the businessOriginally posted by Tetrachord View Post
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Muti breeds good lookers too. Here is his daughter, Chiara, in the first minutes of this film with his son-in-law David Fray (who often looks constipated in this early extract)!!
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