Furtwängler: Symphony No. 1

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Ghosts of composers he most admired haunt the score, with Bruckner, Beethoven and Wagner looming large...The performers do as much as they can with the symphony, and the recording is warm and... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 20th Aug 2021
Catalogue No: 555377-2
Label: CPO
Length: 88 minutes

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Furtwängler: Symphony No. 1

Work length1:28:09

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Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen
Fawzi Haimor

I. Largo - Allegro

Track length27:15

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II. Scherzo. Allegro

Track length10:04

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III. Adagio - Molto adagio, con devozione

Track length21:05

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IV. Finale. Moderato assai - Largo - Allegro

Track length29:45

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Wilhelm Furtwängler was an avid composer even as a boy. His natural talent developed continuously until he had reached early adulthood. His compositions from these early years included symphonic works and an impressive Te Deum, but the promise they contained was not fulfilled: while Furtwängler quickly was able to obtain increasing success as a conductor, his creative juices ceased to flow for almost a quarter of a century. It was first after his open conflict with the new German regime (in the »Hindemith Affair«), causing him to resign from all his official posts, that his compositional energies once again streamed forth. The yield from the last twenty years of his life, when he apparently was in search of lost times past, included two violin sonatas, a piano quintet, a piano concerto, and three monumental symphonies. And the search was successful: already the Symphony No. 1 in B minor composed between 1938 and 1941 releases with elemental force the energies formerly held back and sends them flowing into architectures of Brucknerian dimensions without the composer ever slavishly following the precedents set by the Austrian master. With this work Wilhelm Furtwängler, standing firmly on Late Romantic tonal ground, thoroughly acquainted with the resources of the philharmonic orchestra, slow and deliberate in his composing, introduced a triptych that can be understood as a memorial to a bygone era and at the same time is to be heard as a hopeful signal.

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November 2021

Ghosts of composers he most admired haunt the score, with Bruckner, Beethoven and Wagner looming large...The performers do as much as they can with the symphony, and the recording is warm and detailed, but it’s as a conductor that Furtwängler will rightly be remembered.

March/April 2022

Haimor sets a new standard here in the Furtwängler discography. This is an absolutely essential acquisition for Furtwängler aficionados, and one that enthusiasts for late Romantic German repertoire should investigate as well.

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