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CD-2002: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, 'Choral' - Beethoven
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Hjördis Schymber, Lisa Tunell, Gösta Bäckelin, Sigurd Björling
Stockholm Konsertförenings Orkester
Musikalita Sällskapets Kör
Conducted by Wilhelm Furtwängler

Rec. Konserthuset, Stockholm, 8 December 1943
Original CD transfer from acetate discs by Music and Arts, 1993
XR remastering by Andrew Rose, April 2007
Download ID: 295104
(Duration 73'31")

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Furtwängler conducts Beethoven's Ninth

A performance of the Ninth was always "a sacred occasion for Furtwängler since his
earliest days,
" Berta Geissmar has written. "During the Great War, while he was conductor in Mannheim, he never allowed this work in his programmes. It was only after 1918 that he conducted again this great masterpiece, which he treats as a holy ritual. In later years...the Ninth was given by Furtwängler only on special occasions. After he had succeeded Richard Strauss as a conductor of the Berlin State Opera concerts in 1920, a performance of the Choral Symphony was always the feature of the last concert of the season. When he became the successor to Nikisch at the Leipzig Gewandhaus and Berlin Philharmonic concerts, it became the tradition that the Pension Fund Concert of both orchestras was a performance of the Ninth Symphony, which was given at the end of the regular cycle and was sold out for months ahead..."

The same was later the case with the Pension Fund Concerts of the Vienna Philharmonic, while the impetus for the historic performance of the Ninth given in Bayreuth on July 29, 1951, was the reopening of the Festival and the reconsecration of its Festspielhaus. Nowhere in the recordings extant by Furtwängler is there a more cogent reaffirmation of Kierkegaard's dictum "Truth is subjectivity" than in the existing performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.

Like the recordings of Fifth, these span the three great periods of Furtwängler' s musical life - the pre-war heights of technical assurance (the re-creation of sound through the combined resources of mind and heart), the war years during which a powerful sense of time and history and rage tempered technique and the post-war years in which all that had gone before was recast through a hard-won serenity and sense of perspective.

Nine of Furtwängler's performances of the Ninth have been made public - all from live performances - plus the rehearsal of the third and fourth movements from the 1954 Bayreuth Festival. The Ninth was a work he never attempted in the studio, perhaps because of the importance he attached to it as a communal experience.

Excerpt from the sleevenotes, ©1990, John Ardoin


Restoration note:
This historic live recording was originally recorded on delicate acetate discs, which have over the years suffered wear and damage. Despite my best efforts, some surface noise will still be evident in some quieter passages, and a degree of mild distortion is evident through the first 9-10 minutes of the recording. I have done all I can to minimise this and trust it will not interfere with your listening to this magnificent recording.

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