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* Recordings & Discography - Wilhelm Furtwängler(2)
      from Berlioz to Mendelssohn

from Bach to Beethoven
Berlioz Blacher        
Brahms Symphonies No.1 in c minor No.2 in D major No.3 in F major No.4 in e minor
Other works Haydn variations Hungarian Dances German Requiem  
Concertos Piano, No.2 Violin Concerto Double Concerto  
Bruckner Symphonies No.4 ~ No.6 No.7 No.8 & No.9  
Castro Cherubini Debussy Dvorák Fortner Franck
Furtwängler Gluck Händel Haydn, F.J. Hindemith Höller
Honegger Liszt Mahler Mendelssohn    
Mozart~Verdi Wagner~Wolf Dubious recordings

Berlioz

- Extract ; Marche Hongroise
1) 1930, Polydor Studio, Berlin(studio)
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * 78s info ; Grammophon 95411, Fonit 91025, Decca CA 8054, Polydor S 4040(JP)
   * LP ; DG 88 021
   * CD ; DG POCG 2342~4(3 set) / DG 3750(KR), Koch 3-7073-2, Opus Kura OPK 2036
2) 31st Mar. 1949, Musikvereinssaal, Wien(studio)
   * with  Wiener Philharmoniker
   * Producer/Engineer ; Walter Legge/Douglas Larter
   * LP ; EMI 1C 149 03584-03586M, Toshiba WF 60002, OE OALC 0049 / OLAC 0090(8 set)
   * Tape ; OE ABC-057
   * CD ; EMI CHS 5 66770 2(3 set), Toshiba TOCE 6070 / TOCE 3751
3) 19 or 25th Apr. 1951, Cairo(or Alexandria), Egypt
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * Unreleased(private archive)

Blacher, Boris

Brahms

- only 4th movement
1) 23th Jan. 1945, Admiralspalast, Berlin
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * LP ; French Furtwängler Society SWF 8801-8803, Japan AT 13-14
   * CD ; Music and Arts CD 805 / CD 4941(4 set), Tahra FURT 1004~07(4 set), Refrain DR 910004, French
         Furtwängler Society SWF 951-952, Archipel ARPCD 0157-2(2 set), Delta DCCA 0026

- Rehearsal of the 2nd movement
1) 14th Sep. 1947, Deutsches Museum, München
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * CD ; Tahra FURT 1008~11(4 set)

- 4th movement
1) 15th Mar. 1932, Philharmonie, Berlin
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * Unreleased(German radio archive before 1940)

Bruckner

- Second movement ; Adagio
  1) 7th Apr. 1942, Berlin
     * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
     * 78s info ; Telefunken SK 3230-3232, Ultraphon 922264-922266
     * LP ; Rococo 2014, Japan JP 1101-1102 / AT 11-12, Discocorp RR 457, French Furtwängler Society SWF
           7702 / SWF 8801-8803
     * CD ; Teldec 9031-76435-2, Tahra FURT 1004~7(4 set), Music and Arts CD 954(4 set), French
           Furtwängler Society SWF 963, Tahra FURT 1099(2 set), Green Door Musical Publishing GDWF
           2002(JP)
          Notes by Y.Lee ] Recording date after Tahra FURT 1004~7.

Castro, José Maria

Cherubini

Debussy

Dvorák

Fortner, Wolfgang

Franck

Furtwängler, Wilhelm

- rehearsal extract from 2nd movement
1) Feb. 1948, Titania Palast, Berlin
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * CD ; Refrain DR 920031

- only 2nd movement
1) 25th Apr. 1939, Beethovensaal, Berlin(studio)
   * with  Edwin Fischer(p) / Berliner Philharmoniker
   * Producer/Engineer ; Walter Michael Berten/Johannes Hübener
   * 78s info ; Electrola DB 4696~97s - 2RA 3904~06 [ 2,2,3 ]
   * LP ; HMV HLM 7027, Electrola 1C 047 01415, WFS Japan JP 1101~02, Opus MLG-74(private edition),
         
French Furtwängler Society SWF 7101, Toshiba WF 60013 / WF 70046 / WF 28~32
   * CD ; Testament SBT 1170, Toshiba TOCE-3805, Toshiba-Shinseido SGR 7114, Music & Arts CD 954

         (4 set) / CD 4941(4 set), Biddulph WHL 006~007(2 set), Naxos 8.110879
   * transferring from 78s ; Mark Obert-Thorn(Biddulph)
        Notes by Y.Lee ] Recording venue is from Naxos homepage. In the Mr. R.Smithson's discography, Electrola Studio.
                But in the Testament CD, Philharmonie.

Gluck

- Final rehearsal
1) 15th Dec. 1952, Frankfurt am Main
   * with  Hessian Radio Orchestra
   * LP ; Discocorp RR 419, Nippon Columbia OZ 7512, Cetra FE 50 Cetra [misdated 16 December]
   * CD ;
Refrain DR 920018, Emblem EF 4004(USA)

Händel

Haydn, F.J.

Hindemith

Höller, Karl

Honegger

Liszt

Mahler

Mendelssohn

from Bach to Beethoven
Berlioz Blacher        
Brahms Symphonies No.1 in c minor No.2 in D major No.3 in F major No.4 in e minor
Other works Haydn variations Hungarian Dances German Requiem  
Concertos Piano, No.2 Violin Concerto Double Concerto  
Bruckner Symphonies No.4 ~ No.6 No.7 No.8 & No.9  
Castro Cherubini Debussy Dvorák Fortner Franck
Furtwängler Gluck Händel Haydn, F.J. Hindemith Höller
Honegger Liszt Mahler Mendelssohn    
Mozart~Verdi Wagner~Wolf Dubious recordings

Sources supplement

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  2. Personal contribution

original (c) 1998~, John Hunt and René Trémine, webversion Zoltán ROCKENBAUER and Károly DÁN
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Music Home Life His Music The man Records(1) Records(2) Beethoven at Bayreuth Discographies

Created ; 18th Jan. 2002
Last update ; 19th Oct. 2008

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