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Wilhelm Furtwängler was undoubtedly the living embodiment of the highest ideals of German music of the last century, and he undeniably lived through the worst imaginable catastrophe for his country. After he was allowed to conduct again in 1947, Furtwängler resumed his leadership of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic and thereby the leadership of German musical life. With the Vienna Philharmonic, Furtwängler also gave ten concerts at the Salzburg Festival between 1947 and his death in 1954, concerts that show the living embodiment of the highest musical ideals having been harshly tested and severely chastened, but ultimately thoroughly transformed and wholly transfigured.
In this eight-disc set drawn from seven of those ten concerts, Furtwängler's performances are communal sacraments enacted before an international festival audience. Tested and chastened, Furtwängler's interpretations are expansive and inclusive, exalted and exhilarating, awesome and ecstatic, luminous and numinous, sublime and humane. They are not without flaws: the opening of the finale of Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt 1951 is out of tune, portions of the Grosse Fugue from 1954 are out of sync, most of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements from 1950 is out of temper, and the Beethoven Ninth from 1951 is more harshly severe than the celebratory Ninth from the opening Bayreuth Festival a few weeks earlier. However most of the performances -- the passionate Brahms Fourth and magnificent Beethoven Third from 1950, the glorious Bruckner Fifth and the fervent Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Fischer-Dieskau in 1951 -- are among the greatest ever made. Most revelatory is Furtwängler's playing the solo cadenza of Bach's Fifth Brandenburg on the piano in 1950. Alone with the music before all eternity, Furtwängler meditates on creation and destruction, on transformation and transfiguration. Orfeo's remastering is as good as possible.
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Symphony in C Major, Op. 46 (Hans Pfitzner)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Hans Pfitzner, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Symphony in 3 Movements (Igor Stravinsky)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Igor Stravinsky, Composer - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98 (Johannes Brahms)
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johannes Brahms, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 2
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G major, BWV 1048 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 "Eroica" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 3
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV 1050 (Johann Sebastian Bach)
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Artist - Willi Boskovsky, Artist - Josef Niedermayr, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Artist - Willi Boskovsky, Artist - Josef Niedermayr, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Artist - Willi Boskovsky, Artist - Josef Niedermayr, Artist, MainArtist
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
The Hebrides, Op. 26, MWV P 7 "Fingal's Cave" (From "L.A. Confidential") (Felix Mendelssohn)
Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen (Gustav Mahler)
Gustav Mahler, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Artist, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Gustav Mahler, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Artist, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Gustav Mahler, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Artist, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Gustav Mahler, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Artist, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 4
Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 (Anton Bruckner)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Anton BRUCKNER, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Anton BRUCKNER, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Anton BRUCKNER, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Anton BRUCKNER, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 5
Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, Op. 125 "Choral" (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Sieglinde Wagner, Artist - Anton Dermota, Artist - Josef Greindl, Artist - Wiener Staatsopernchor, Choir - Irmgard Seefried, Artist, MainArtist - Salzburg Cathedral Choir, Choir
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 6
Don Juan, Op. 20, TrV 156 (Richard Strauss)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Richard Strauss, Composer - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Symphony "Die Harmonie der Welt" (Paul Hindemith)
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Paul Hindemith, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 7
Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 "Great" (Franz Schubert)
Franz Schubert, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Franz Schubert, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Franz Schubert, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Franz Schubert, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Symphony No. 8 in F major, Op. 93 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
DISC 8
Grosse Fuge in B-Flat Major, Op. 133 (arr. F. Weingartner for string orchestra) (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor - Felix Weingartner, Composer
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92 (Ludwig van Beethoven)
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Ludwig van Beethoven, Composer - Wiener Philharmoniker, Orchestra, MainArtist - Wilhelm Furtwängler, Conductor
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
Albumbeschreibung
Wilhelm Furtwängler was undoubtedly the living embodiment of the highest ideals of German music of the last century, and he undeniably lived through the worst imaginable catastrophe for his country. After he was allowed to conduct again in 1947, Furtwängler resumed his leadership of the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonic and thereby the leadership of German musical life. With the Vienna Philharmonic, Furtwängler also gave ten concerts at the Salzburg Festival between 1947 and his death in 1954, concerts that show the living embodiment of the highest musical ideals having been harshly tested and severely chastened, but ultimately thoroughly transformed and wholly transfigured.
In this eight-disc set drawn from seven of those ten concerts, Furtwängler's performances are communal sacraments enacted before an international festival audience. Tested and chastened, Furtwängler's interpretations are expansive and inclusive, exalted and exhilarating, awesome and ecstatic, luminous and numinous, sublime and humane. They are not without flaws: the opening of the finale of Hindemith's Die Harmonie der Welt 1951 is out of tune, portions of the Grosse Fugue from 1954 are out of sync, most of Stravinsky's Symphony in Three Movements from 1950 is out of temper, and the Beethoven Ninth from 1951 is more harshly severe than the celebratory Ninth from the opening Bayreuth Festival a few weeks earlier. However most of the performances -- the passionate Brahms Fourth and magnificent Beethoven Third from 1950, the glorious Bruckner Fifth and the fervent Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen with Fischer-Dieskau in 1951 -- are among the greatest ever made. Most revelatory is Furtwängler's playing the solo cadenza of Bach's Fifth Brandenburg on the piano in 1950. Alone with the music before all eternity, Furtwängler meditates on creation and destruction, on transformation and transfiguration. Orfeo's remastering is as good as possible.
© TiVo
About the album
- 8 disc(s) - 49 track(s)
- Total length: 08:58:40
- Main artists: Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Orfeo
- Genre: Klassiek
(C) 2019 Orfeo (P) 2019 Orfeo
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