It is amazing how you will come across fellow Furtwangler fans now seven decades after his death we are still listening to his records. His infamous wobbly beat prompted an orchestra member to shout Corragio Maestro!
How far down the Furtwangler rabbit hole did you go?
Qobuz has an apparently complete collection of Furtwangler recordings to match John Hunt's discography. After adding 1000+ tracks to a Furtwangler playlist, I felt like Gandalf climbing the Endless Stair (in reverse). My question to Furtwangler fans is how far down this particular mixed metaphor did you go? And was there a hidden gem down at the bottom?
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« Several critics have explained Furtwängler’s art as melding two often conflicting principles. Great music never emerges from comfort, well-being and privilege. Rather, throughout the history of music, the finest work arises from the most trying of circumstances. All of the great artists – composers and performers – were tortured souls. Even Beethoven was a gifted but largely derivative composer until driven to the brink of suicide by deafness, the cruellest blow of all for a budding musician. Like his idol, Furtwängler’s art was fueled by the loss of his own most treasured possession: the stability of an absolute artist, sheltered from sordid social and political reality.» http://www.classicalnotes.net/features/furtwangler.html
Furtwangler admiring listeners now are not deluded fan but people very sensible about what make music, "music", soul passionate devotion for pure freedom and creativity not mere SOUND clarity by any means...Everyone love sound clarity but few are able to move the heart and the soul to new heights...He was and will stay one... We must listen music with the heart and not with the ears only, and music is not about taste and sound but about "APOCALYSPE" which means translated from greek : revelation...
This is one of the most powerful symphony interpretation EVER recorded... But you cannot decipher it with the ears why? Because musical pulse and tempos "waving" are like the sea you must feel them with the heart and the body like a mariner on the sea , searching for minute sound details here and asking for more "clarity" is meaningless... The maestro make this symphony an encompassing whole ... If you dont feel it the problem is yours...
«Nothing is more disciplined than a loving heart»-Anonymus lover
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The first, a structural logic, sense of proportion and intellectual probing, was derived from Furtwängler’s upbringing and is clearly evident in his early Polydors. The second – unbridled emotion and improvisation – was forged in the hideous caldron of Nazi Germany.- 11 posts total