Wilhelm Furtwängler, Berliner Philharmoniker - Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 (live in Berlin 1949) [2 x 180g Black Vinyl]

Warner Classics

£37.40

Format: 2 x LP
ICPN: 5054197665820
Release Date: 15 Sep 2023
Genre: Classical

“Bruckner is one of those rare geniuses, seldom to be found in the whole of European history, whose natural destiny it is to make the supernatural real, to force the divine into the strait-jacket of our human world.”
Wilhelm Furtwängler

“Furtwängler’s Bruckner interpretations were always marked above all by the intensity of his thoroughly romantic feeling and his temperament for improvisation, and his Bruckner recordings, perhaps more than any other, provide us with an especially impressive example of his own unmistakable approach to music, which itself was inclined to be basically ‘ecstatic’, and the main characteristic of which was the aesthetic, voluptuous flow of feeling.”
Walter Abendroth

- The most accomplished version of Bruckner 7th performed live in Berlin in 1949, remastered in HD from the best source available by Art et Son Studio in 2023
- Bonus: Telefunken recording from 1942 remastered in 2021 at the occasion of The Complete Wilhelm Furtwängler on Record boxed set.
TRACKLIST
ANTON BRUCKNER 1824-1896
Symphony No. 7 in E major (original version, live in Berlin 1949)
SIDE A I. Allegro moderato
SIDE B II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam
SIDE C III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell - Trio. Etwas langsamer
IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell

SIDE D BONUS
Symphony No. 7 in E major (excerpt, live in Berlin 1942)
II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam

Berliner Philharmoniker
Wilhelm Furtwängler conductor

Recording: 7.IV.1942, Philharmonie, Berlin (SIDE D);
18.X.1949, Gemeindehaus, Berlin-Dahlem [live] (SIDES A-C)
Remastered in 2021 (SIDE D) and 2023 (SIDES A-C) by Art et Son Studio, Annecy

Total timing: 85.00

LONG PLAY 33 ⅓ R.P.M. RECORD
180GR. PRESSING

5054197665820 ∙ A Warner Classics release, P 1964, Remastered P 2023 Parlophone Records Limited (SIDES A-C)
A Warner Classics/Teldec release, P 1942, Remastered P 2021 Warner Music UK Limited (SIDE D)