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Beethoven (1770-1827)

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Furtwängler's last year! Live performance at Lugano with the Berlin Philharmonic in May 1954. The complete complete recording. The complete complete concert recording of the Lugano concert with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra in May 1954. Digipak version (complete limited edition). 1954 was the year of Furtwängler's death. In 1954, the year of Furtwängler's death, the maestro was not in perfect physical condition, but he was still energetically active. From the end of April to the end of May, he led the Berlin Philharmonic on a tour of Germany, Italy, France, and Switzerland. He gave hard concerts almost every day. Hidekazu Yoshida heard the concert in Paris and praised it highly. The live performance in the beautiful city of Lugano, Switzerland is presented here in its entirety. The beginning of "Rural" is stunning. A dense beginning. The countryside unfolds as the heavy doors open and the tone gradually becomes brighter and brighter, and the production is genius. Mozart's soloist, the famous French female pianist Lefebvre, is a serious, melancholy, and truly Beethovenian Mozart, and is a masterpiece. Till Eulenspiegel" is the most recent recording. It is regarded as one of Furtwängler's top performances due to the quality of the sound. The order of the pieces is correct, and although it may sound strange today, it was typical at that time to put the big piece in the first movement and close with the overture. The sound quality was originally very good, but we have removed the odd stereo effect and corrected the tape defects as much as possible for the UHQCD version.It comes with a newly written article by up-and-coming journalist Nestor Castiglione (English + Japanese translation). Muse Trade