Wilhelm Furtwängler: The Radio Recordings 1939–1945 (SACD)

Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler
Format: DSD64 (iso)
Label: Berliner Philharmoniker
Release: 2018
Size: 52.3 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: no

Furtwängler: Symphonic Concerto in B minor
Edwin Fischer (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Handel: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 5 in D major, HWV323
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Verfuehrung Op. 33 No. 1
arr. for orchestra
Peter Anders (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Waldseligkeit, Op. 49 No. 1
arr. for orchestra
Peter Anders (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Liebeshymnus, Op. 32 No. 3
arr. for orchestra
Peter Anders (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Winterliebe Op. 48 No. 5
arr. for orchestra
Peter Anders (tenor)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Don Juan, Op. 20
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg: Overture
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Walter Gieseking (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 ‘Choral’
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Gluck: Alceste: Overture
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
Tibor de Machula (cello)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Edwin Fischer (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Schubert, Heinz: Hymnisches Konzert for soloists, organ & orchestra
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 ‘The Great’
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Sibelius: En Saga, Op. 9
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Sibelius: Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Georg Kulenkampff (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
without audience
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 4 in B flat major, Op. 60
with audience
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Pepping: Symphony No. 2 in F minor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G major, Op. 58
Conrad Hansen (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Bruckner: Symphony No. 6 in A major
incomplete
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Schumann: Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
incomplete
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op. 28
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Brahms: Variations on a theme by Haydn for orchestra, Op. 56a ‘St Anthony Variations’
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61
Erich Roehn (violin)
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Strauss, R: Symphonia Domestica, Op. 53
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Handel: Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 10 in D minor, HWV328
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Mozart: Symphony No. 39 in E flat major, K543
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Weber: Der Freischütz Overture
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No. 1
incomplete
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé – Suite No. 2
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68 ‘Pastoral’
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 in D Minor
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 ‘Unfinished’
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68 – Finale
Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler

The radio recordings between 1939 and 1945 with the Berliner Philharmoniker and Wilhelm Furtwängler are among classical music’s most compelling sound documents. Created at the peak of the collaboration between orchestra and conductor, Furtwängler’s artist personality is conveyed more vividly than anywhere else. What can be heard is music in which inspiration and the expressive will know no bounds and in which, not least, the existential experience of the Second World War reverberates. For the first time, the Berliner Philharmoniker are releasing a complete edition of these recordings on 22 CD/SACD.

Wilhelm Furtwängler is accorded almost mythical status to this day. Biographically and artistically rooted in the 19th century, he embodies a bridge to the late Romantic period and the founding years of the Berliner Philharmoniker, whose chief conductor he was from 1922. Furtwängler’s auratic charisma stems from an intriguing basic interpretive concept which avoided authoritarian gestures and deliberately aimed at the blurring of tonal contours. The result was a warm, mixed sound, in which developments and intensifications never appear calculated, but seem to grow organically.

Includes Bonus Interview with Friedrich Schnapp