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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Elsa Cavelti, Ernst Häfliger & Otto Edelmann
Lucerne Festival Choir & Philharmonia Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
His last performance of Beethoven's Ninth, in August 1954, has legendary status, but though precise it seems to me inferior in tension and exultation to those from Berlin in 1942 and Bayreuth... — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Historic non-vocal
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis & Choral Fantasia
Zinka Milanov (soprano), Bruna Castagna (mezzo), Jussi Björling (tenor), Alexander Kipnis (bass), Ania Dorfman (piano)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Bruno Walter’s Mahler: The Early New York Recordings
New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra & Westminster Choir, Bruno Walter
Rhetoric and searing drama charge the first movement with unprecedented levels of intensity...As to the closing minutes, no performance in my experience quite equals them for a sense of unbridled... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Furtwängler conducts Beethoven
The Best of the World War II Legacy
Tilla Briem (soprano), Elisabeth Höngen (contralto), Peter Anders (tenor), Rudolf Watzke (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berliner Philharmoniker, Philharmonic Choir, Wilhelm Furtwängler
Recording quality from Berlin and Vienna varies, but there are rewards, if not always comfortable ones: the finale of the Fifth is more desperate than triumphant, and the finale of the Ninth... — More…
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The remastered recordings… sound remarkably fresh and clear for the period in which they were made. Balancing technical brilliance with emotional intensity, the Fine Arts are particularly convincing... — More…
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In Memory of Arturo Toscanini
Concert given by the Symphony Of The Air, Carnegie Hall 3/2/1957
The Symphony of the Air, Bruno Walter, Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux
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Verdi: Requiem Mass & Te Deum
Zinka Milanov (soprano), Bruna Castagna (mezzo), Jussi Björling (tenor), Nicola Moscona (bass)
NBC Symphony & Westminster Choir, Arturo Toscanini
For a conductor famous for incandescence and relentless intensity, this account of the Requiem, from a Carnegie Hall concert of November 23, 1940, is most remarkable for its lyrical beauty and... — More…
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