FURTWANGLER conducts BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 4

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RECORD CONDITION : ALMOST PERFECT

COVER CONDITION    : Bad ( the cover is just a piece of poor paper with some Russian written on it ... I guess that is how they were making record covers in USSR in the 50's and the 60's )

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This is Melodiya ( ex- USSR ) Pink Label Lp.
Label Number is D 09083
Release Date : The 19??
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FURTWANGLER conducts BEETHOVEN :

BEETHOVEN - Symphony No. 4 in Si Bemol Major Op. 60.

Symphony Orchestra, conductor WILHELM FURTWANGLER.

Archive recording.

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Biography :

FURTWANGLER :

Wilhelm Furtwängler (January 25, 1886 – November 30, 1954) was a German conductor and composer.

Furtwängler had a unique conducting technique. He saw symphonic music as creations of nature that could only be realised subjectively into sound. This is why composers such as Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner were so central to Furtwängler's repertoire, because he identified them as great forces of nature. He disliked Toscanini's approach to the German repertoire. He walked out of a Toscanini concert once, calling him "a mere time-beater!". Furtwängler did not have a strong beat, as can be seen in video recordings that show him making awkward, gawky movements like a medium in a trance. He wished that the sense of time be established by the players in themselves, as in chamber music. Furtwängler would then show the orchestra when he wished to use rubato. His gestures bear seemingly little relationship to the rhythms of the music, while his ysical motions were described as "like a puppet on a string" by one orchestra member . Furtwängler would generally hold his baton hand closer to his body and his left would be outstretched giving the expression of the phrase to the orchestra. On occasion he would violently shake his baton hand when he would get into conducting fits onstage. In the video above Furtwängler can be seen conducting Beethoven's Ninth Symphony on April 19th, 1942 in celebration of Hitler's birthday. In the symphony's coda, Furtwängler can be seen having tremendous fits as he leads the orchestra through the chorus's final cries of "Götterfunken, Götterfunken!". Despite, or perhaps because of, this unorthodox style, musicians were mesmerised by his leadership. His best performances are characterized by deep, bass-driven sonorities, soaring lyricism, and wrenching extremes of emotion co-existing with logical cogency. Neville Cardus wrote in the Manchester Guardian in 1954 of Furtwängler's conducting style:

"He did not regard the printed notes of the score as a final statement, but rather as so many symbols of an imaginative conception, ever changing and always to be felt and realised subjectively...Not since Nikisch, of whom he was a disciple, has a greater personal interpreter of orchestral and opera music than Furtwängler been heard."

Many commentators and critics regard him as the one of the greatest conductors in history.

Conductor and pianist Christoph Eschenbach has said of Furtwängler that he was a "formidable magician, a man capable of setting an entire ensemble of musicians on fire, sending them into a state of ecstasy".
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Bad (B) : This could be told only about covers. The covers I'm saying this about ... I think it's better if you considered that there is no cover available.

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