FURTWÄNGLER CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN
CD-4653(1)

Digitally remastered in 1999 by Maggi Payne, this CD is sonically superior to all previous issues of the same performance.

"...This is a Ninth to end Ninths--you'll never get over this ferocity." Robert Levine in Pulse!

"...this wartime live Berlin performance is special, crackling with the tension of the times and the conductor's defiant rage." Dan Davis in Absolute Sound

Available only as MP3 download from ONLINE CLASSICS

CD-4653(1) FURTWÄNGLER CONDUCTS BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 9 in d, Op. 125 "Choral." Tilla Briem, soprano; Elisabeth Höngen, contralto; Peter Anders, tenor; Rudolf Watzke, bass; Bruno Kittel Choir, BPO, cond. Furtwängler (1942).

© 2012 Music & Arts Programs of America. All rights reserved.