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Furtwängler conducts Furtwängler & Beethoven: Historical Recordings 1954
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Furtwängler conducts Furtwängler & Beethoven: Historical Recordings 1954

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Composer
FURTWAENGLER BEETHOVEN
Artist
Furtwaengler
Format
CD
Label
SWR
Released
Sep 27, 2011
Catalog #
94215
UPC
4010276023975

About

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

Tracklist 9 tracks

  1. Disc 1
  2. 1 I. Assai moderato 24:02
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Assai moderato
    Duration
    24:02
    Composer
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  3. 2 II. Andante semplice 12:25
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Andante semplice
    Duration
    12:25
    Composer
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  4. 3 III. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro 16:56
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Allegro - Moderato - Allegro
    Duration
    16:56
    Composer
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  5. Disc 2
  6. 1 IV. Langsam - Moderato andante - Allegro molto - Moderato - Langsam - Moderato - Presto 28:27
    Track
    1
    Title
    IV. Langsam - Moderato andante - Allegro molto - Moderato - Langsam - Moderato - Presto
    Duration
    28:27
    Composer
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  7. 2 I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio 08:02
    Track
    2
    Title
    I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
    Duration
    08:02
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  8. 3 II. Andante cantabile con moto 07:14
    Track
    3
    Title
    II. Andante cantabile con moto
    Duration
    07:14
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  9. 4 III. Menuetto - Allegro molto e vivace 03:58
    Track
    4
    Title
    III. Menuetto - Allegro molto e vivace
    Duration
    03:58
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  10. 5 IV. Finale: Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace 06:24
    Track
    5
    Title
    IV. Finale: Adagio - Allegro molto e vivace
    Duration
    06:24
    Composer
    Ludwig van Beethoven
    Ensemble
    Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
    Conductor
    Wilhelm Furtwängler
  11. 6 Hans Muller-Kray talks to Wilhelm Furtwangler 07:17
    Track
    6
    Title
    Hans Muller-Kray talks to Wilhelm Furtwangler
    Duration
    07:17
    Composer
    na Not Applicable
    Performer
    Hans Müller-Kray, Wilhelm Furtwängler