No work appeared more frequently in Furtw?ngler's concert programmes than Beethoven's Fifth. Between 1918 and his death in 1954, he conducted more than a hundred performances, including a superbly...
Double vinyl LP pressing. Despite making his name as an interpreter of Wagner and Bruckner, Furtw?ngler's first and last love was Beethoven. Furtw?ngler came back to the symphonies again and again...
Beethoven was Wilhelm Furtw?ngler's guiding musical force. In his interpretations of the symphonies, the conductor generates irresistible dramatic momentum - and a constant sense of imaginative...