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Furtwangler wouldn't be on my list

Posted by TGR (A) on January 30, 2017 at 15:14:49

In Reply to: RE: finished listening to Klemperer's Beethoven set posted by Todd Krieger on January 29, 2017 at 19:28:23:

We all have different reactions. One reviewer said that Furtwangler is a traveler who likes to stop to look at the flowers along the way. That was quite charitable, IMO. What he sounds like to me is a frustrated composer who wishes that he had composed the Beethoven symphonies, and damn right he is going to show you and Beethoven what Beethoven should have written. I find listening to Furtwangler conduct Beethoven to be incredibly intrusive. I don't feel that way with Klemperer, in general.

I have heard Furtwangler do the Eroica, the 5th and the 9th (3 different recordings, which to my mind are more alike in their eccentricities than they are different, which means that he wasn't making it up on the podium, like many think - his interpretations were carefully studied).

Interestingly, Klemperer felt that Toscanini, and not Furtwangler, was the greatest conductor of his time. None of them compared to Mahler, of course, in his opinion.

Many listeners I respect admire Furtwangler's way with Beethoven. It is definitely not for me.

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