"I THINK I'll give Herr
Furtwangler a miss this afternoon" - - Margaret Brown on Lark Rise To Candle ford instigates a nookie ban.
He follows in the footsteps of Herbert von Karajan and Claudio Abbado, as well as Wilhelm
Furtwangler - names which are absolute legends in the world of recording and performance.
The four music dramas that make up the Ring unfold, albeit perhaps not with the majesty or epic grandeur Knappertsbusch or
Furtwangler bring to the work, but with a natural flow and pace that are organic and never forced.
A recently aired episode (which became Germany's overall fall ratings topper) starred not a rotund German pushing retirement age but a young and good-looking actress (Marie
Furtwangler) as an investigator probing the murder of the boss of a big food company.
As you would expect of an aristocrat, the Philharmonia was classy from the moment it was born, working with conductors such as Beecham, Klemperer,
Furtwangler, Karajan and the great Richard Strauss, whose Four Last Songs the orchestra premiered in 1950.
In the Berlin of 1946, the famous German conductor Wilhelm
Furtwangler (Stellan Skarsgard) is interrogated by an American army major, Steven Arnold (Harvey Keitel), about his relationship with the Nazi government.
Mr
Furtwangler is a name we see on local clocks very often in our sales, as is Jacobs and Kaltenbach.
This is not so grand a Passion as that of Klemperer or
Furtwangler, nor is it so energetic as the period performance by Gardiner, but it is profoundly moving in a most intimate way.
This was just the right time for a young conductor because the major maestros --
Furtwangler, Karajan, Knappertsbusch, Krauss -- had not yet been de-Nazified.
Without "a reaffirmation," in performances like
Furtwangler's of Bach, "of the presence of Bach in Wagner and ...