Wilhelm Furtwangler - Beethoven: Symphony No.5 & Egmont Ouverture (1952) [2011 SACD]
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BAND/ARTIST: Wilhelm Furtwangler
- Title: Beethoven: Symphony No.5 & Egmont Ouverture
- Year Of Release: 1952, 61 [2011]
- Label: Deutsche Grammophon / Universal [UCGG-9016]
- Genre: Classical
- Quality: DSD64 image (*.iso) | FLAC (24bit/96 kHz)
- Total Time: 01:00:25
- Total Size: 780 mb / 668 mb (+3%rec.)
- WebSite: Album Preview
Whats to say about the 5th we all know it so well. Furtwängler’s performances of it have been reference recordings since the 1920’s. In summation maybe the best performance ever, a really great recording, especially for 1947, but a noisy nuisance of an audience. Was Furtwängler driven to excel in this performance through trying to instil in the audience some respect?
Leading up to the years of World War II, & during that conflict, Furtwängler, because he remained in Germany (other prominent musicians went into exile), was branded a Nazi (or certainly a member of the Nazi Party). Although, post-war, he was cleared of such associations, such a stigma dogged his career for quite some time. Menuhin, a Jew, worked with Furtwängler in the conductor’s last years. Pre-war, though, he had refused to do so. Furtwängler explained his actions thus: ‘I knew Germany was in a terrible crisis. I felt responsible for German music, & it was my task to survive this crisis, as much as I could. The concern that my art was misused for propaganda had to yield to the greater concern that German music be preserved, that music be given to the German people by its own musicians. These people, the compatriots of Bach & Beethoven, of Mozart & Schubert, still had to go on living under the control of a regime obsessed with total war. No one who did not live here himself in those days can possibly judge what it was like.’
Tracks:
Symphony No.5
01-1. Allegro con brio – 7:52
02-2. Andante con moto – 10:59
03-3. Allegro – 5:48
04-4. Allegro – 8:03
05-Egmont op.84 Ouverture – 9:01
06-Grosse Fuge, op.133 – 18:41
Personnel:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler (Furtwangler)
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Leading up to the years of World War II, & during that conflict, Furtwängler, because he remained in Germany (other prominent musicians went into exile), was branded a Nazi (or certainly a member of the Nazi Party). Although, post-war, he was cleared of such associations, such a stigma dogged his career for quite some time. Menuhin, a Jew, worked with Furtwängler in the conductor’s last years. Pre-war, though, he had refused to do so. Furtwängler explained his actions thus: ‘I knew Germany was in a terrible crisis. I felt responsible for German music, & it was my task to survive this crisis, as much as I could. The concern that my art was misused for propaganda had to yield to the greater concern that German music be preserved, that music be given to the German people by its own musicians. These people, the compatriots of Bach & Beethoven, of Mozart & Schubert, still had to go on living under the control of a regime obsessed with total war. No one who did not live here himself in those days can possibly judge what it was like.’
Tracks:
Symphony No.5
01-1. Allegro con brio – 7:52
02-2. Andante con moto – 10:59
03-3. Allegro – 5:48
04-4. Allegro – 8:03
05-Egmont op.84 Ouverture – 9:01
06-Grosse Fuge, op.133 – 18:41
Personnel:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler (Furtwangler)
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