Furtwängler: Unissued recordings on CD format (Bach, Schubert, R. Strauss, Ravel)

Now the release is completely repackaged and mirrored at 3 different free hosting servers.

Release contents:

Bach, Brandenburg Concerto No.5 in D major BWV 1050 (Vienna, Dec. 21/22, 1940)
W. Furtwängler - piano, W. Schneiderhan - violin, J. Niedermayer, flute
Wiener Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler
1. Allegro [14:17.24]
2. Affetuoso [7:58.06]
3. Allegro [5:44.37]

Schubert, Rosamunde Overture D 644 (Torino, March 11, 1952) [10:49.04]
Orchestra sinfonico della RAI di Torino, Wilhelm Furtwängler

R. Strauss, 'Don Juan' tone poem op.20 (Berlin, May 1, 1951) [18:05.60]
Berliner Philharmoniker, Wilhelm Furtwängler

Ravel, Rhapsodie espagnole (Torino, March 3, 1952)
Orchestra sinfonico della RAI di Torino, Wilhelm Furtwängler
1. Prélude à la nuit [4:39.60]
2. Malagueña [2:15.07]
3. Habanera [2:41.14]
4. Feria [6:47.39]

This Japanese CD features one of the most rare Furtwängler recordigs, namely Bach's 5th Brandenburg concerto with maestro playing the piano while the violin part is performed by Wolfgang Schneiderhan leaviing far beyond his Viennese colleague Boskowski who has played the violin part of the work under the baton of maestro in well-known and wide-spread 1950 live recording from Salzburg Festival (EMI, Orfeo).

Till now the 1940 recording has never been released by any major label neither on LPs, or on CDs available for all Furtwängler lovers. There are only two LPs in existence issued by French Furtwängler Society and the even less known Japanese collector label.

Unfortunately, this phonogram has twice been driven through the drastical 'noice reducing' procedure, first, analogue for the LP release, second, the digital purge before the CD mastering. You can see its sorrowful result on the following diagram...


Obvious FIR filtering at 13.5 kHz

Simple comparison of this ill-processed recording to the later recording of the same 5th Brandenburg Concerto performed by ECO under the baton of Benjamin Britten and recorded in 1968 by the great Kenneth Wilkinson for DECCA released later on CDs would show you how could it be done.


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Anyway, I hope, you would forget all this technical and historical bullshit while listening to Schneiderhan's violin, to say nothing about such oeuvre as 'Don Juan' and 'Rhapsodie espagnole'.




files are mirrored at:

depositfiles group link (group FurtwaenglerDelta)

mediafire group link (group furtwaengler_on_delta)

separate megaupload links:

unissued_furtwaengler.part1.rar
unissued_furtwaengler.part2.rar
unissued_furtwaengler.part3.rar

My sincere apologies to community members: please, show some patience since this is my début release and sharing at free hosting servers.