How far down the Furtwangler rabbit hole did you go?

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Several critics have explained Furtwängler’s art as melding two often conflicting principles. The first, a structural logic, sense of proportion and intellectual probing, was derived from Furtwängler’s upbringing and is clearly evident in his early Polydors. The second – unbridled emotion and improvisation – was forged in the hideous caldron of Nazi Germany.

Great music never emerges from comfort, well-being and privilege. Rather, throughout the history of music, the finest work arises from the most trying of circumstances. All of the great artists – composers and performers – were tortured souls. Even Beethoven was a gifted but largely derivative composer until driven to the brink of suicide by deafness, the cruellest blow of all for a budding musician. Like his idol, Furtwängler’s art was fueled by the loss of his own most treasured possession: the stability of an absolute artist, sheltered from sordid social and political reality.»

http://www.classicalnotes.net/features/furtwangler.html

Furtwangler admiring listeners now are not deluded fan but people very sensible about what make music, "music", soul passionate devotion for pure freedom and creativity not mere SOUND clarity by any means...Everyone love sound clarity but few are able to move the heart and the soul to new heights...He was and will stay one...

We must listen music with the heart and not with the ears only, and music is not about taste and sound but about "APOCALYSPE" which means translated from greek : revelation...

This is one of the most powerful symphony interpretation EVER recorded...

But you cannot decipher it with the ears why?

Because musical pulse and tempos "waving" are like the sea you must feel them with the heart and the body like a mariner on the sea , searching for minute sound details here and asking for more "clarity" is meaningless... The maestro make this symphony an encompassing whole ...

If you dont feel it the problem is yours...

«Nothing is more disciplined than a loving heart»-Anonymus lover

Furtwangler's live 1944 Beethoven Ninth, for all its technical defects, is probably one of the most gripping performances of any music ever recorded.  His wartime Bruckner Ninth is devastating.  If you haven't heard these performances, you should.  Brace yourself.

If you dont fell out of your chair consult a doctor... 

Portraits and Testimonials – Wilhelm Furtwängler Society (furtwangler-fr.translate.goog)

 Valery Gergiev: The most difficult thing in conducting is to avoid a mechanical beat. This endless search for a true tempo, the right tempo for every bar of music, and not just a single tempo for the whole movement, is something few conductors ever master. Few leaders will recognize, perhaps, that it is something difficult for them, but they will try to do it and compete with Furtwängler, and most likely they will fail. Because it is a gift from God, the quality of a genius, that a conductor influences the playing of an orchestra. You cannot imagine that same orchestra playing the same way with Furtwängler and without him. It is not possible to imagine that they will do the same. Maybe they’ll be more organized, they’ll focus better on their overall game, but they won’t give that incredible expression he brings to life when leading an orchestra. Whether it’s the Berlin Philharmonic, the Hamburg Radio Orchestra or the Vienna Philharmonic, we find this incredible quality.