Lebrecht Weekly | Wilhelm Furtwängler Under Neeme Järvi: A 2nd Symphony Going Nowhere
What’s this record doing on my deck? I have listened to Furtwängler’s own recordings of his overlong second symphony and have heard it performed live…
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Wilhelm Furtwängler: The radio recordings, 1939-45 (Berlin Philharmonic)
At the end of the war, when the Russians occupied Berlin’s radio centre, a musically literate officer called Konstantin Adzhemov rounded up some 1,500 tapes…
