Sergiu Celibidache: Selected Discography

Beauty beyond words ! A unique moment where time stops and music becomes something more than just music ! Celibidache conducting Bruckner's Adagio from the Symphony no 5:

Recordings with The Munchner Philharmoniker:

  • Bruckner: Symphony No 3 / Emi (1998) Rec. 19 & 12.3. 1987, Gasteig, Munich
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 4 / Emi (1998) Rec. 16.10. 1988, Gasteig, Munich
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 5 / Emi (1998) Rec. 14 &16.2. 1993 Gasteig
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 6 / Emi (1998) Rec. 29.11.1991, Gasteig
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 7 & Te Deum / Emi (1998) Rec. 10.9.1994, Gasteig ; Rec. 1.7. 1982 (Te Deum), Lukaskirche, Munich
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 8 / Emi (1998) Rec. 12 & 13.9.1993, Gasteig
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 9 / Emi (1998) Rec.10.9. 1995, Gasteig
  • Bruckner: Mass No 3 in F minor / Emi (1998) Rec. 6 & 9.3. 1990, Gasteig
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 7 / Sony (1992) Rec. 18.10. 1990, Suntory Hall, Tokyo
  • Bruckner: Symphony No 8 / Sony (1992) Rec. 20.10. 1990, Suntory Hall
  • Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (with rehearsal) / Emi (1997) Rec. 20.3. 1995
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 2; Symphony No 4 / Emi (1999) Rec. 4.6. 1996 (No 2); 12 & 13.4. 1987 (No 4), Gasteig
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 3 / Emi (1999) Rec. 12 & 13.4.1987, Gasteig
  • Beethoven Symphony No 4; Symphony No 5 / Emi (1997) Rec. 19.3.1995 (No 4); 28 & 31.5.1992 (No 5), Gasteig
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 6; Leonore Overture / Emi (1999) Rec. 25.1. 1993 (No 6); 20.1.1989 (Leonore), Gasteig
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 7; Symphony No 8 / Emi (1999) Rec. 20.1.1989 (No 7); 4.1. 1995 (No 8), Gasteig
  • Beethoven: Symphony No 9 / Emi (1999) Rec. 17.3. 1989, Gasteig
  • Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique/ MPHIL (2020) Rec. 28.6. 1986, Gasteig


  • Brahms: Symphony No 1 ; Deutsches Requiem / Emi (1999) Rec. 21.1. 1987, Gasteig ; 2.7. 1981 (Requiem), Lukaskirche, Munich
  • Brahms: Symphonies Nos 2, 3 & 4 / Emi (1999) Rec. 8.6. 1991, Gasteig ; 20.6. 1979 ; 16.3. 1985 (No 4) , Herkulessaal, Munich
  • Brahms: Haydn Variations ; Schumann: Symphony No 2 / Emi (1999) Rec. 16.10. 1980, Herkulessaal, Munich ; 29.11.1994 (Schumann), Gasteig
  • Debussy: La Mer ; Images for Orchestra No 2 "Iberia" / Emi (1997), Rec. 13.10.1992 ; 22.10. 1992 (Images), Gasteig
  • Faure: Requiem ; Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms / Emi (2004) Rec. 14 & 15.3.1994 (Faure), Gasteig ; 31.1. 1984 (Stravinsky), Herkulessaal
  • Ravel: Daphnis et Chloe - Suites Nos. 1 & 2; La Valse; Le Tombeau de Couperin / MPHIL (2018) Rec. 21.6. 1987 (Daphnis et Chloe), Gasteig; 20.6. 1979 (La Valse); 18&19.4. 1984 (Le Tombeau de Couperin), Herkulessaal
  • Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade / Emi (2004) Rec. 18.4. 1984, Herkulessaal.
  • Shostakovich: Symhonies No 1 & 9; Barber: Adagio for Strings / Emi (2004) Rec. 2 & 3.6. 1994 (No 1); 9.2. 1990 (No 9); 19 & 20.1. 1992 (Adagio), Gasteig
  • Schubert: Symphony No 9 (8) "The Great" / Emi (1997) Rec. 28.2.1994, Gasteig
  • Schubert: Symphony No 8 "Unfinished" ; Dvorak: Symphony No 9 "From the New World" / MPHIL (2017) Rec. 30.9. 1988 (Schubert), Gasteig ; 16.6. 1985 (Dvorak), Herkulessaal
  • Schumann: Symphony No 3 "Rhenish" ; Symphony No 4 / Emi (1997) Rec. 21.4. 1988 (No 3) ; 20.9.1986 ( No 4), Gasteig
  • Sibelius: Symphony No 5; Stravinsky: The Firebird suite / MPHIL (2022) Rec. 26.3. 1988 (Sibelius), Gasteig & 28.10. 1982 (Stravinsky), Herkulessaal
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 4; Nutcracker Suite / Emi (2004) Rec. 11 & 12.11. 1993 (No 4); 10.2. 1991 (Suite), Gasteig
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5 / Emi (1997) Rec. 29.5. 1991, Gasteig
  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6 / Emi (1997) Rec. 14 & 16.11. 1992, Gasteig
  • Wagner: Orchestral Music: Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg; Siegfried-Idyll; Gotterdämmerung; Tannhäuser Overture / Emi (1997) Rec. 3 & 4.2. 1993, Gasteig

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Latest Celibidache MPO issue 2022:

Munchner Philharmoniker's latest Celibidache issue features Sibelius's Fifth Symphony (recorded in 1988) and Stravinsky's "The Firebird" (from 1982).

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