Bruckner / Furtwangler / Berliner Philharmoniker -Symphonies 4-9 -Andromeda CD Grooves.land/Playthek

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1.1 Bewegt, Nicht Zu Schnell

1.2 Andante Quasi Allegretto

1.3 Scherzo. Bewegt - Trio. Nicht Zu Schnell, Keinesfalls Schleppend

1.4 Finale. Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell

2.1 Introduction. Adagio - Allegro

2.2 Adagio. Sehr Langsam

2.3 Scherzo. Molto Vivace (Schnell) - Trio

2.4 Finale. Adagio - Allegro Moderato

3.1 Adagio. Sehr Feierlich

3.2 Scherzo. Nicht Schnell - Trio. Langsam

3.3 Finale. Bewegt, Doch Nicht Zu Schnell

3.4 Nuages

3.5 Fetes

3.6 Overture

3.7 Ballet Music No. 2

3.8 Entr'acte No. 3

4.1 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35

4.2 Adagio. Sehr Feierlich Und Sehr Langsam

4.3 Scherzo. Sehr Schnell - Trio

4.4 Finale. Bewegt, Doch Nicht Schnell

5.1 Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35

5.2 Scherzo. Allegro Moderato - Trio. Langsam

5.3 Adagio. Feierlich Langsam, Doch Nicht Schleppend

5.4 Finale. Feierlich, Nicht Schnell

6.1 Feierlich, Misterioso

6.2 Scherzo. Bewegt, Lebhaft - Trio. Schnell

6.3 Adagio. Langsam, Feierlich

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Wiener & Berliner Phil./ Wilhelm Furtwangler

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Let me add one more to life?s two certainties; taxes, death and bloody hard work with Andromeda. These people are like basking sharks, forever doomed to swim the discographic depths jaws open in search of reusable plankton. They?ve recently gone mad and issued two huge sets devoted to surviving live Bruckner from Knappertsbusch and, as here, Furtwängler. They bulk out the sets with weird, undigested morsels; Rosamunde and two of Debussy?s Nocturnes in this one alongside the rather more explicable Tannhäuser overture - but the recording from Caracas. Fêtes is unidiomatic; Furtwängler?s attitude to Debussy was in any case simultaneously arrogant and provincial. Since one of the most familiar features of Furtwängler?s discography is the pitiful lack of a commercially recorded complete Bruckner symphony we all know what we?re getting here. But let me spell it out for you anyway. These particular Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic performances are really too well trodden by now to cause any surprises but you?ll want to know what?s on offer. The Fourth is the Munich performance by the Vienna Phil given in October 1951. It?s been out often enough ? older timers might have caught it on Priceless D14228, Palette PAL1074 or on Virtuoso 369-7372. Newer comers will have picked it up on Orfeo C559 022 1 ? a two CD set. As a performance it is probably inferior to the better recorded one in Stuttgart, which was given a week earlier. This Munich performance is not quite as responsive or as well played. Nevertheless the immensity of the transitions will compel interest either pro or contra. The audience is rather restive especially, of course, in the slow movement. As usual he plays the Schalk-Löwe edition. The Fifth is one of four wartime broadcasts in this set. It was given in Berlin in October 1942. Others find the actual sound splendid but I find it rather occluded for its time. The heft of it however still registers powerfully. And the performance is better performed and one should probably concede better conducted than the p

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ANDRCD9008

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