SCHW.FESTSPIELORCH./WIEN.PHILHARM./SCHUR - Lucerne Festival,Vol.12 - Furtwangler (Sealed) (2CD)

The Volume 12 of the Lucerne Festival Edition presents a sensational archival find: For the first time the recording will be the supposedly lost Manfred Overture from the festival summer of 1953. With Beethoven' s Eroica and Schumann's Fourth Symphony conducted Wilhelm Furtw?ngler 1953 also produced two of his showpieces. The thrilling interpretations were first performed of the original volumes found from the Archive of SRF Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen remastered and edited. Wilhelm Furtw?ngler, who was invited to Lucerne for the first time in 1944 was one of the most influential artists in the first decades of Lucerne Festival. From 1947 onwards he was (with Exception to a sickness cancellation in summer 1952) every year, until his last concert in the August 1954, a few months before his death (also in the "Historic Performances"). Altogether conducted Furtw?ngler eighteen concerts at the festival sixteen of them at the music stand of the Swiss Festival Orchestra, who was also his partner on August 26,1953. Not "true to the note", but "faithful to the original meaning", that was Furtw?ngler's motto. The Lucerne live recording shows how he proceeded according to plan, in particular by means of a precisely calculated tempo architecture: Furtw?ngler's seemingly arbitrary tempo modifications have structural meaning, they dynamize the musical and emotional Form. Illustrated with numerous photos from the Festival archive, reviews the 32-page, trilingual booklet this approach - with side glances at other famous recordings, such as Furtw?ngler's only a few months ago recording of the Fourth Schumann's studio recording with the Berliner Philharmoniker.