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Turkeys!: Furtwängler’s Shaky Strauss and Spastic Smetana

David Hurwitz

Artistic Quality:

  • 4

Sound Quality:

  • 5
Furtwängler’s Moldau simply stinks. The opening is heavy and lumpish, […]
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Recording Details:

Reference Recording: Till, Don, Death: Szell (Sony), Moldau: Anyone Else, but try Ancerl (Supraphon)

BEDRICH SMETANA - The Moldau
RICHARD STRAUSS - Don Juan; Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks; Death and Transfiguration

  • Record Label: EMI - 5 62793 2
  • Medium: CD

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