Is there a good Furtwaengler recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis?

[Juan I. Cahis]

Dear friends:

Is there a good Furtwaengler recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis?

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[Mandryka]

Is there a bad Furtwaengler recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis?

[Frank Berger]

On 10/22/2013 3:03 PM, Juan I. Cahis wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Is there a good Furtwaengler recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis?
>

I recall someone writing that a Furtwangler Missa Solemnis would be the
ultimate fantasy recording. Apparently he stopped performing it at some
point and never recorded it.

[Bob Harper]

AFAIK, there is NO Furtwängler recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.
If anyone knows of one, please let us know, but according to a review of
a Blomstedt performance in the LAT, he stopped performing it at age 44,
i.e. around 1930. This even though, or perhaps because, he considered it
Beethoven's greatest work.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/04/music-review-herbert-blomstedt-leads-beethovens-missa-solemnis-.html

Bob Harper

[Willem Orange]

There is NO recording of a Furtwangler Beethoven Missa Solemnis

[Mandryka]

I don't think he played it very much -- someone here will confirm but I seem to remember he gave a couple of performances very early on in his career and then refused to touch it.

According to his wife, said he just couldn't make it work. And according to Furtwangler himself, is almost impossible for a choir to sing.

[Dontait...@aol.com]

Exactly. Furtwangler didn't conduct the work after the 1920s. Lists of his performances show that.

Don Tait

[Terry]

Is there a recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis?
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Cheers!
Terry.

[fath...@smdmcc.org]

For a very spontaneous-sounding, almost hypnotically intense recording, you might try Bruno Walter's live performance with the New York Philharmonic. While Walter's ethos differed from Furtwangler, Walter's interpretation captures the swings between divine tenderness and almighty frenzy to a very satisfying degree.

[Juan I. Cahis]

Thanks a lot!!!