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Newspaper Article
RECORDINGS OFFER GLIMPSE INTO THE PAST
1996
Overview
[Wilhelm Furtwaengler] is the most famous among these musical titans, and while his main vehicle was the Berlin Philharmonic, the discs also have him leading the Vienna Philharmonic, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw and London's Philharmonia Orchestra. Compare Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, with the Berlin orchestra in 1942 and the Philharmonia in 1954: the wartime performance shows the strings warmer than today's American counterparts, but winds and brasses less acceptable by today's standards. (German school woodwinds use vibrato differently, and their sound takes some getting used to). Most characteristic is the conductor's expansiveness and flexibility, traits that have nearly become a lost art. The post-war version is sleeker and more brilliantly played, with a better quartet of vocal soloists (led by soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf), a little more restrained but still deeply expressive.
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Pittsburgh Post - Gazette
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