Wilhelm Furtwängler – Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 “Choral” (Live) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 01:33:17 minutes | 1,77 GB | Genre: Classical
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Wilhelm Furtwängler leads the venerable Orchester der Bayreuther Festspiele in this legacy programme of Beethoven! The music sounds better than ever thanks to the new remastering from original tapes in HD 192kHz/24-bit done for Warner’s upcoming Furtwängler box!
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Wilhelm Furtwängler – Wagner: Siegfried by Wilhelm Furtwängler (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 04:08:18 minutes | 2,39 GB | Genre: Classical
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Although Furtwängler’s recorded legacy is extensive, recordings of concertos are relatively few. This 1949 recording of Brahms’ Violin Concerto is notable for the legendary conductor’s highly expressive accompaniment. In the Hungarian Dances Furtwängler’s innate understanding of their idiom brings a variety of subtleties and inflexions that make this recording particularly memorable. In Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture his structural strength of line, together with a natural fluidity of tempo underpinning the thematic imagery, strikes a perfect balance. Last but not least, the heart-warming performance of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll demonstrates once again that even when Furtwängler conducted the lighter works of those composers whose output could be considered predominantly serious, he always brought the same questing spirit to search out the soul of the music
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Wilhelm Furtwängler – Wagner: Götterdämmerung by Wilhelm Furtwängler (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 04:24:45 minutes | 2,63 GBGenre: Classical
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Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin Wilhelm Furtwängler (* 25. Januar 1886 in Schöneberg; † 30. November 1954 in Ebersteinburg bei Baden-Baden; beigesetzt auf dem Bergfriedhof in Heidelberg) war ein deutscher Dirigent und Komponist. Er gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Dirigenten des 20. Jahrhunderts.
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Orchestra Sinfonica di Roma della Rai, Ira Malaniuk, Gustav Neidlinger, Wilhelm Furtwängler – Wagner – Das Rheingold, WWV 86A (Remastered) (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 02:38:07 minutes | 1,66 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Digital Booklet, Front Cover | © Andromeda
The RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI) is an Italian symphony radio orchestra, owned by the public radio and television company RAI. Its primary concert venue is the Auditorium RAI in the Piazza Rossaro in Turin; all of the its concerts are broadcast on Rai Radio 3. The current artistic director is Ernesto Schiavi.
It was formed in 1994 by the merger of four former RAI orchestras of Turin, Milan, Rome, and Naples, which had been founded starting in 1931.
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Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berliner Philharmoniker – Beethoven: Symphony 5 / Egmont Ouverture / Grosse Fuge (1961) [Japan 2011]
PS3 Rip | SACD ISO | DSD64 2.0 Mono > 1-bit/2.8224 MHz | 60:25 minutes | Scans included | 2,43 GB
or FLAC 2.0 Mono (converted with foobar2000 to tracks) 24bit/96 kHz | Scans included | 636 MB
Japanese SHM-SACD | Deutsche Grammophon/Universal Japan # UCGG 9016
Japanese original edition. Features 2011’s DSD mastering using the original analog master of Deutsche Grammophon. Recorded in 1947 (Symphony No.5 & Egmont Ouverture) & in 1952 (Grosse Fuge). This recording of 5th comes from the 2nd concert, with the same program, conducted by Furtwängler on his return to the podium of the Berlin Philharmonic after the war. The interpretation is very different from the 5th of 1943. The 1st movement is more an expression of conflict & struggle than the tragedy expressed in the wartime performance. Suitably, the last movement is a strong, heroic affirmation & triumph. The Grosse Fugue is a visionary performance of a work not usually part of the orchestral repertory. It is an arrangement for string orchestra of work written for string quartet. It is among Beethoven’s last works &, I believe, particularly well suited to Furtwängler’s approach to this composer’s music. A grand interpretation that I have never heard a string quartet perform in a way that can match the sheer dimension of this great work.
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