Wilhelm Furtwangler Vienna Concerts 1944-54
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Label: Orfeo - Orfeo d'Or
Cat No: C834118
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 18
Release Date: 11th March 2013
Contents
Works
St Matthew Passion, BWV244Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Symphony no.1 in C major, op.21
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 'Choral'
Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45 (selection)
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Symphony no.8 in C minor
Symphony in D minor, op.48
Symphony no.2 in E minor
Iphigenie en Aulide
Piano Concerto no.10 in E flat major, K365 (for two pianos)
Piano Concerto no.22 in E flat major, K482
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Rosamunde, D797
Artists
Paul Badura-SkodaDagmar Bella
Willi Boskovsky
Emanuel Brabec
Rosette Anday
Elisabeth Grummer
Hilde Güden
Marga Hoffgen
Hildegard Rossel-Majdan
Irmgard Seefried
Hans Braun
Anton Dermota
Otto Edelmann
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Julius Patzak
Alfred Poell
Paul Schoffler
Otto Wiener
Vienna Boys Choir
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Wilhelm FurtwanglerWorks
St Matthew Passion, BWV244Leonore Overture no.3 in C major, op.72b
Symphony no.1 in C major, op.21
Symphony no.3 in E flat major, op.55 'Eroica'
Symphony no.9 in D minor, op.125 'Choral'
Double Concerto for violin and cello in A minor, op.102
Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), op.45 (selection)
Symphony no.1 in C minor, op.68
Symphony no.2 in D major, op.73
Variations on a theme by Haydn, op.56a 'St Anthony Variations'
Symphony no.8 in C minor
Symphony in D minor, op.48
Symphony no.2 in E minor
Iphigenie en Aulide
Piano Concerto no.10 in E flat major, K365 (for two pianos)
Piano Concerto no.22 in E flat major, K482
Symphony no.40 in G minor, K550
Rosamunde, D797
Artists
Paul Badura-SkodaDagmar Bella
Willi Boskovsky
Emanuel Brabec
Rosette Anday
Elisabeth Grummer
Hilde Güden
Marga Hoffgen
Hildegard Rossel-Majdan
Irmgard Seefried
Hans Braun
Anton Dermota
Otto Edelmann
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Julius Patzak
Alfred Poell
Paul Schoffler
Otto Wiener
Vienna Boys Choir
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor
Wilhelm FurtwanglerAbout
The series commences with recordings from 1944/45, including one of Mozart’s G minor symphony K550 in which Furtwängler demonstrates his clear sense of form from the very first bars. Beethoven’s third 'Leonore' Overture and an excerpt from Schubert’s 'Rosamunde' music complete our selection from this, the earliest of the recording sessions.
Several works are to be found more than once in this anthology. Thus, Beethoven’s Eroica can be compared in an early version from 1944 and a later recording from 1953, just as Bruckner’s Eighth can be compared in recordings from 1944 and 1954. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony is offered no less than three times here – from the years 1951, 1952 and 1953 – a work that surely no other conductor could make into such an 'event', an experience of universal import, as could Wilhelm Furtwängler.
This was also true of his Brahms interpretations, represented here by the first two symphonies, the 'Haydn' Variations, the Double Concerto and the 'German Requiem', which is sadly only extant in an incomplete recording from 1951. This is, incidentally, the only time in this collection that we hear Furtwängler conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Besides Irmgard Seefried and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau – two vocal soloists whom Furtwängler admired and engaged repeatedly – we can also hear the chorus of the Vienna Singakademie on this recording.
They also sing in Bach’s 'St Matthew Passion': in a partial recording from 1952 and in the famous performance of 1954 that was shortened by Furtwängler himself, but which is here released in a restored recording based on the original radio broadcast, without the cuts that were later made by record companies. Here, as elsewhere in this collection, the acoustic heritage of the Viennese radio stations of the time has been restored using the best possible technological means available today.
Even collector’s items such as the Piano Concertos K365 and 482 by Mozart, with Dagmar Bella and Paul Badura-Skoda, have probably never sounded better since they were first heard in the concert hall. Hence justice is done to Furtwängler’s timeless style of music-making that unites different epochs, ranging from Gluck’s Overture to 'Iphigenie in Aulis' to Mahler’s 'Songs of a Wayfarer' and Furtwängler’s own Second Symphony – a work that despite all its late-Romantic echoes succeeds in attaining originality and a considerable emotional impact. This universality of Furtwängler has not found its match to this day.
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