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Two complete Magic Flutes exist with Furtwängler conducting; both were recorded live at the Salzburg Festival. This 1949 version is less familiar than its better-recorded
Wilhelm Furtwängler just may have been the greatest conductor ever of Brahms’ First Symphony. Certainly, he brought to the work an intensity and, in the
Ah, the difference a day makes! The performance of Beethoven’s Third Symphony captured on tape (and also available from Tahra) the day after this December
Testament’s restoration of The 1942 Fischer/Furtwängler Brahms Second Piano Concerto was made from the same source material used for Deutsche Grammophon’s 1989 series devoted to
These documents recorded live at the Salzburg Festival feature Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Vienna Philharmonic in three consecutive seasons at the Austrian summer musical event
The visionary power, dramatic potency, and titanic flow of Furtwängler’s wartime Beethoven symphony performances add up to listening experiences demanding as much as they reward.
The positives of this set are: the remarkable playing of the Vienna Philharmonic under Furtwangler’s steady, tight, action-packed, and when necessary tender hand; the sensitive,
