福特萬格勒DECCA錄音全集 (3CD)

這套3CD完整收錄指揮大師福特萬格勒在DECCA的錄音大全集.包括1948年與倫敦愛樂的錄音室版本布拉姆斯第二號交響曲,1951年與維也納愛樂的錄音室版本法朗克D小調交響曲.以及1951年福特萬格勒率領維也納愛樂赴慕尼黑演出的全場實況錄音.
 
Two legendary studio recordings and a 1951 concert from Munich: the small but precious Decca legacy of the 20th century's greatest recreative conductor, Wilhelm Furtwängler.
While the performances of Wilhelm Furtwängler issued by Decca have been made available in small and large compilations, they have never been issued in this convenient format. They include a 1948 studio account of Brahms’s Second Symphony with the London Philharmonic, a Vienna Philharmonic studio recording of Franck’s Symphony from 1951, and finally a complete concert which the VPO gave with Furtwängler in Munich on tour, playing Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture, Schumann’s First and Bruckner’s Fourth Symphonies.
Each recording is precious in its way. First issued by Decca in its Eclipse LP series, the Bruckner makes a fascinating comparison with a performance given by the VPO and Furtwängler a week earlier in Stuttgart, widely available, but the Schumann First is unique within the conductor’s discography: majestic and superbly built, as one would expect, but not without the fiery impetus belonging to a work which the composer had written in less than a week.
While Furtwängler was more at home in concert than the studio, he knew and appreciated the value of recordings, and cultivated good relationships with broadcast engineers in Berlin. The Decca team found him harder to deal with, but the Brahms Second from Kingsway Hall remains a characteristic example of his art, more muted than his other readings but flowing and lyrical throughout. The Franck, meanwhile, is even more marked by inspirational rubato, a quality now appreciated once again in performances of late-Romantic music.
With a new essay by Rob Cowan on the context and qualities of these superb interpretations, this new Eloquence set is a definitive collection of Furtwängler’s Decca legacy.
 
曲目:
CD 1
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN (1770–1827)
1 Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Wiener Philharmoniker
 
JOHANNES BRAHMS (1833–1897)
2-5 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73
London Philharmonic Orchestra
 
CD 2
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810–1855)
1-4 Symphony No. 1 in B flat major, Op. 38 ‘Spring’
 
CÉSAR FRANCK (1822–1890)
5-7 Symphony in D minor
 
CD 3
ANTON BRUCKNER (1824–1896)
1-4 Symphony No. 4 in E flat major ‘Romantic’
Wiener Philharmoniker
 
WILHELM FURTWÄNGLER
MONO RECORDINGS