Furtwangler Early Recordings, Vol. 3 (Incls A Midsummer Night's Dream' & 'Invitation to the Dance') [rec 1929-35]

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WEBER / MENDELSSOHN / BERLIOZ
Furtwangler Early Recordings, Vol. 3 (Incls A Midsummer Night's Dream' & 'Invitation to the Dance') [rec 1929-35]
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Wilheim Furtwangler

[ Naxos Historical Great Conductors / CD ]

Release Date: Wednesday 1 July 2009

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Volume 3 of The Early Recordings is a welcome reminder that Furtwängler's musical sympathies went beyond Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Wagner, the composers with whom he is most closely associated.

The remake of the overture to Weber's Der Freischütz (Furtwängler's 1926 recording is available on Naxos 8.111003) smoulders with anticipation, a real theatrical prelude. Invitation to the Dance is lovingly turned at the opening and close, with plenty of heady excitement in between. Berlioz's Hungarian (Rakoczy) March is nimble and athletic, remarkably 'straight' but thrilling in its own right. The account of the Overture to Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream is notable for its translucent delicacy.

Tracks:

Weber, Carl Maria von
Der Freischutz, J. 277 (excerpts)
Act I: Overture
Act III: Entr'acte
Aufforderung zum Tanze (Invitation to the Dance), Op. 65, J. 260 (arr. H. Berlioz for orchestra)

Mendelssohn, Felix
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 21: Overture
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Op. 61 (excerpts)
Act II: Scherzo 00:04:51
Act III: Nocturne 00:07:17
Act V: Wedding March 00:04:43
Hebrides, Op. 26, "Fingal's Cave"

Berlioz, Hector
La damnation de Faust, Op. 24: Part I Scene 3: Hungarian March, "Rakoczy March"