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* Recordings & Discography - Wilhelm Furtwängler(3)
      from Mozart to Verdi

from Bach to Beethoven from Berlioz to Mendelssohn
Mozart Symphonies Orchestral Works Concertos Operas  
Nicolai Pepping Pfitzner Ravel Reger Rossini
Schubert Schubert, H. Schumann Sibelius Smetana Strauss, Johann, Jr
Strauss, Johann II & Josef Strauss, R. Stravinsky Tchaikovsky Verdi  
from Wagner to Wolf Dubious recordings

Mozart, W.A.

- Two extracts ; Aria of Königin der Nacht [ Zum Leiden bin ich auserkoren; Der Hölle Rache.]
1) 3rd Feb. 1950, Brahmssaal, Wien(studio)
   * with  Wiener Philharmoniker
   * Producer/Engineer ; Walter Legge/Anthony Griffith
   * LP ; EMI RLS 764, French Furtwängler Society SWF 8601, Japan AT 13-14
   * CD ; EMI CHS 5 66770 2(3 set), Toshiba TOCE 3075

Nicolai, Otto

Pepping, Ernst

Pfitzner, Hans

Ravel

Reger

Rossini

Schubert

- only 1st movement
1) 12th May 1943, Konserthus, Stockholm
   * with  Wiener Philharmoniker
   * LP ; French Furtwängler Society SWF 8403-4, Japan AT 05-06
   * CD ; Music and Arts CD 802(2 set), Seven Seas KICC 2110
        Notes by Y.Lee ] From 5th bar to end, and there is a strange cut of 329~248 bars in 2nd mvt. at M&A release.
                Thanks to Mr. Raul Valcarcel Martinez .
2) 12th Dec. 1944, Admiralspalast, Berlin(DRA archive)
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * CD ; Tahra TAH 1008~11(4 set), French Furtwängler Society SWF 031~32(2 set)
        Notes ] 2nd mvt. is not issued
3) Dec. 1951, Berlin
   * with  Berliner Philharmoniker
   * LP ; Period SPL 716, Everest SDBR 3252, Nippon Columbia OS 7076, French Furtwängler Society SWF
         8403-8404
        Notes ] Rehearsal, opening bars

Schubert, Heinz

Schumann

- only 3rd movement
1) 13~16th Nov. 1943, Philharmonie, Berlin
   * with  Pierre Fournier(vc) / Berliner Philharmoniker
   * CD ; Tahra TAH 1008~11(4 set), Venezia V 1002(JP)

Sibelius

Smetana

Strauss, Johann. Jr.

- incomplete; bars 1~38 only
1) 12th May 1943, Konserthus, Stockholm
   * with  Wiener Philharmoniker
   * LP ; French Furtwängler Society SWF 8403-8404, Japan AT 13-14
   * CD ; Music and Arts CD 802(2 set)

Strauss, Johann. Jr. & Strauss, Josef