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Wilhelm Furtwangler: Complete RIAS Recordings

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Label: Audite

Cat No: AUDITE21403

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 13

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 25th May 2009

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Audite presents the complete RIAS recordings with Wilhelm Furtwängler from 1947 to 1954, accompanied by a complimentary CD with previously unreleased live recordings of Furtwängler speaking about music interpretation and being interviewed by Werner Egk and his students at the hochschule für Musik, Berlin in 1951.

The majority of the concerts given by Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic between 1947 and 1954 were recorded by the RIAS Berlin; all of these recordings are documented in this boxed set.

The original tapes from the RIAS archives have been made available for the first time for this edition so these CDs also offer unsurpassed technical quality. Furthermore, some of the recordings are presented for the very first time, such as the Fortner Violin Concerto with Gerhard Taschner.

A number of works - the Third, Fifth and Sixth Symphonies by Ludwig van Beethoven as well as Johannes Brahms' Third Symphony - are included in two interpretations. They reveal how Furtwängler was able to accentuate different aspects of a work whilst maintaining the same, clear basic conception - and how the actual interpretation depended on the context of the particular programme.

Contents:
CD 1
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’ & No.5 (25-05-1947)

CD 2
Mendelssohn:
A Midsummer Night's Dream (28-09-1947)
Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Y. Menuhin) (28-09-1947)
Bach: Orchestral Suite No.3, BWV 1068 (24-10-1948)

CD 3
Schubert: Symphony No.8 ‘Unfi nished’ (24-10-1948)
Brahms: Symphony No.4 (24-10-1948)

CD 4
Bruckner: Symphony No.8 (15-03-1949)

CD 5
Schumann: Overture to “Manfred” (18-12-1949)
Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F major (18-12-1949)
Fortner: Violin Concerto (G. Taschner) (18-12-1949)

CD 6
Wagner: “Götterdämmerung” (Trauermarsch) (19-12-1949)
Wagner: “Die Meistersinger” (Prelude to Act I) (19-12-1949)
Handel: Concerto grosso in D minor, Op.6 No.10 (20-06-1950)
Brahms: Variations on a theme by J. Haydn, Op.56a (20-06-1950)
Hindemith: Concerto for Orchestra, Op.38 (20-06-1950)

CD 7
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E flat major ‘Eroica’ (20-06-1950)
Gluck: Overture to “Alceste” (05-09-1951)
Handel: Concerto grosso in D major, Op.6 No.5 (27-04-1954)

CD 8
Weber: Overture to “Der Freischütz” (08-12-1952)
Hindemith: Symphony ‘Die Harmonie der Welt’ (08-12-1952)

CD 9
Beethoven: Symphony No.3 in E fl at major ‘Eroica’ (08-12-1952)
Schubert: Overture to “Rosamunde” (15-09-1953)
Blacher: Concertante Musik für Orchester (27-04-1954)

CD 10
Schubert: Symphony No.8 & No.9 ‘The Great’ (15-09-1953)

CD 11
Brahms: Symphony No.3 in F major (27-04-1954)
Strauss: “Don Juan” (27-04-1954)
Wagner: “Tristan und Isolde” (Prelude and Liebestod) (27-04-1954)

CD 12
Beethoven: Symphony No.6 ‘Pastoral’ & No.5 (23-05-1954)

Bonus CD Colloquium: Furtwängler on the art of interpretation (27-02-1951)

Live recordings from 1947 to 1954.

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