Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Three Beethoven Symphonies
Includes first commercial release of Symphony No. 9
Hilde Gueden (soprano), Rosette Anday (contralto), Julius Patzak (tenor), Alfred Poell (bass)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Wilhelm Furtwängler
2 CDs
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major, Op. 21
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Recorded: 30 November 1952
I. Adagio molto - Allegro con brio
II. Andante cantabile con moto
III. Menuetto - Trio: Allegro molto e vivace
IV. Adagio - Allegro molto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
- Berliner Philharmoniker
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Recorded: 20 June 1950
I. Allegro con brio
II. Marcia funebre: Adagio assai
III. Scherzo: Allegro vivace
IV. Finale: Allegro molto
Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
- Julius Patzak (tenor), Alfred Poell (bass), Rosette Anday (alto), Hilde Gueden (soprano)
- Wiener Philharmoniker
- Wilhelm Furtwängler
- Recorded: 3 February 1952
I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso
II. Molto vivace
III. Adagio molto e cantabile - Andante moderato
IV. Presto - Allegro ma non troppo - Vivace - Adagio cantabile - Allegro - Allegro moderato - Allegro
Excerpt from an interview with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf on Furtwangler
- Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (narrator), Frederick Maroth (narrator)
- Recorded: 14 August 1980
- Recording Venue: San Francisco