Furtwängler - The Early Recordings Voume 3 - Naxos: 8111004 - CD

Release Date: 30th Mar 2009
Catalogue No: 8111004
Label: Naxos
Series: Historical, Great Conductors
Length: 65 minutes

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Excerpt, Weber: Der Freischütz

Work length13:09

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded: June 1935
Recording Venue: Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany

Act I: Overture

Track length9:51

Act III: Entr'acte

Track length3:18

Weber: Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

Work length8:32

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded: December 1932
Recording Venue: Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany

Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), Op. 65, J. 260 (arr. H. Berlioz for orchestra)

Track length8:32

Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream Overture, Op. 21

Work length12:44

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded: 13 June 1929
Recording Venue: Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21: Overture

Track length12:44

Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26

Work length9:46

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded: 1930
Recording Venue: Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany

The Hebrides, Op. 26, "Fingal's Cave"

Track length9:46

Excerpt, Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, Op. 24

Work length4:15

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recorded: 1930
Recording Venue: Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany

La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part I Scene 3: Hungarian March, "Rakoczy March"

Track length4:15

Excerpt, Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream - incidental music, Op. 61

Work length16:39

Berliner Philharmoniker
Erich Kleiber
Recorded: 1929
Recording Venue: Hochschule fur Musik, Berlin, Germany

Act II: Scherzo

Track length4:42

Act III: Nocturne

Track length7:15

Act V: Wedding March

Track length4:42

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Volume 3 of The Early Recordings is a welcome reminder that Furtwängler’s musical sympathies went beyond Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Wagner, the composers with whom he is most closely associated.

The remake of the overture to Weber’s Der Freischütz (Furtwängler’s 1926 recording is available on Naxos 8111003) smoulders with anticipation, a real theatrical prelude. Invitation to the Dance is lovingly turned at the opening and close, with plenty of heady excitement in between.

Berlioz’s Hungarian (Rakoczy) March is nimble and athletic, remarkably ‘straight’ but thrilling in its own right. The account of the Overture to Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is notable for its translucent delicacy.

Producer and Audio Restoration engineer: Mark Obert-Thorn

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