Long hailed as one of the all-time greatest performances of Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor, "Choral," Wilhelm Furtwängler's August 22, 1954, recording with the Philharmonia Orchestra is suffused with intense emotion, not least because this valedictory event preceded the conductor's death by a little over three months, and the ...
When Vox released Otto Klemperer's Das Lied von der Erde with tenor Anton Dermota, mezzo-soprano Elsa Cavelti, and the Vienna State Symphony in 1951, it had the field nearly to itself. But while true believers rejoiced at the issue of this passionately despairing performance of their master's late symphonic song cycle, yet because they held in ...
If you love Wagner, sooner or later you'll have to get one of the two Furtwängler Rings. Even if antique sound makes you crazy and excruciatingly bad orchestral playing drives you mad, you'll have to get a Furtwängler Ring. Because, despite the invariably terrible sound and the undeniably awful playing, a Furtwängler Ring does something no other ...
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