Artist: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Title: Recordings 1942-1944, Vol.2
Year Of Release: 2001
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Genre: Classical
Quality: APE (Image+.cue, log, scans)
Total Time: 5 CDs, 04:39:54 min
Total Size: 891 mb
These recordings were made in wartorn Berlin by one of the past century's greatest conductors, Wilhelm Furtwangler, who was one of very few international caliber artists who remained in Germany during WWII. Combine Furtwangler's passionate conducting with the sad context of war and you've got an utmost interesting and pertinent package.
Schumann's Piano Concerto is wild and intense as you may expect, and totally unedited as you can hear several of Walter Gieseking's errors. The Cello Concerto is equally intriguing, as well as Brahms' Piano Concerto. This set contains a lot of pieces which are not part of Furtwangler's "standard favourites".
The only drawback is the sound quality. These are live recordings who were made with primitive technology, and we lose much of the dynamics of Furtwangler's volume fluctuations. However, the style and tempi are unmistakenly his.
While most of today's digital recordings are bland and perfect, this boxed set is a good alternative for those who appreciate the historical context of a recording. As much as I enjoy Zimerman/Karajan's interpretation of Schumann's masterpiece on digital DGG, there is something about these old recordings that is so passionately nostalgic that I can't help but listen to this noisy mono recording more often than I listen to other versions I possess. It's also one of very few Furtwangler collections which are properly packaged, in an attractive slim box from Deutsche Grammophon's Dokumente series.
Disc: 1
Piano Concerto in A minor, op. 54 - Schumann
1.1. Allegro affettuoso 14:55
2.2. Intermezzo (Andantino grazioso) 5:49
3.3. Allegro vivace 9:29
Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 129 - Schumann
4.1. Nicht zu schnell 10:40
5.2. Langsam 4:20
6.3. Sehr lebhaft 7:11
Disc: 2
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, op. 83 - Brahms
1.1. Allegro non troppo 17:02
2.2. Allegro appassionato 8:32
3.3. Andante - Più adagio 12:38
4.4. Allegretto grazioso - Un poco più presto 9:10
Disc: 3
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major - Bruckner
1.1. Introduction. Adagio - Allegro 18:55
2.2. Adagio. Sehr langsam 15:20
3.3. Scherzo. Molto vivace (Schnell) - Trio im gleichen Tempo 11:56
4.4. Finale. Adagio - Allegro moderato 21:42
Disc: 4
Sinfonia domestica, op. 53 - R. Strauss
1. Part 3: Adagio (Langsam) 5:15
2. Part 4: Finale (Sehr lebhaft) 6:17
3. Wiegenlied. Mässig langsam und sehr ruhig 5:24
4. Adagio. Langsam 12:34
5. Finale. Sehr lebhaft 12:59
6. Don Juan, op. 29 - R. Strauss 17:16
Disc: 5
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957)
1.En Saga, Op.9 20:28
Richard Strauss (1864 - 1949)
2.Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28, TrV 171 14:59
Maurice Ravel (1875 - 1937)
3.Daphnis et Chloé Suite No.2, M. 57b 16:30
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