Furtwängler conducts Furtwängler & Beethoven: Historical Recordings 1954

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Label
SWR
Release Date
September 27, 2011
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      FURTWAENGLER BEETHOVEN
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart Des Swr
    • PERFORMER
      Furtwaengler
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 27, 2011
    • UPC
      4010276023975
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      94215
    • LABEL
      SWR
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      2
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Assai moderato

      Composer: Wilhelm Furtwängler

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    2. II. Andante semplice

      Composer: Wilhelm Furtwängler

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    3. III. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro

      Composer: Wilhelm Furtwängler

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    4. IV. Langsam - Moderato andante - Allegro molto - Moderato - Langsam - Moderato - Presto

      Composer: Wilhelm Furtwängler

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    5. I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    6. II. Andante cantabile con moto

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    7. III. Menuetto - Allegro molto e vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    8. IV. Finale: Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace

      Composer: Ludwig van Beethoven

      Ensemble: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

      Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler

    9. Hans Muller-Kray talks to Wilhelm Furtwangler

      Composer: na Not Applicable

      Performer: Hans Müller-Kray, Wilhelm Furtwängler


REVIEW:

Furtwängler famously considered himself a composer who conducted, rather than vice versa, and his most familiar surviving work is without question his Second Symphony. It’s a lovable outpouring composed in the last year of the Second World War but that has both its head and its heart buried among the dying embers of late Romanticism. Bruckner, Strauss, Brahms and Reger are all there in attendance and, although the work is well worth sampling, one laments the fact that, while we have at least four recordings of Furtwängler conducting it, we have none of him conducting the Missa solemnis or Parsifal. The 1954 Stuttgart RSO recording of Furtwänger’s Second, reissued here by Hänssler Classic, comes paired with a typically marmoreal account of Beethoven’s First. Both performances are characteristic...it’s nice to have seven minutes’ worth of Furtwängler in (German) conversation with the conductor Hans Müller-Kray, a privilege included only on the Hänssler Classic set.

-- Gramophone