Bruckner - Symphony n°5 - Berlin / Furtwängler 1942 

This is rip-roaringly fast, intense, electrifying and dynamic. No other conductor comes close to these tempi and levels of drama. And yet all the rural charm and lyricism is there as well. It should not be possible. Unrepeatable Bruckner magnificence.

Great symphony///such a wonderful performance...Furtwangler ...

This is an astonishingly good performance and recording of Bruckner 5. The pizzicato passages are pungently alive and audible. The detail is wonderful. A full-bodied orchestral sonority throughout. This is one of those performances that demonstrate Furtwangler's brilliance as a conductor. In spite of the rigorous tempos the lyrical sections are magically brought across. They are stunningly beautiful and seamlessly shape the whole of the work. Masterful, would be an understatement. This is magnificent! Thank you!

Great ！ His dazzling appearance and a lonely countenance that does not let anything go away easily is awesome , wonderful .

This is the best recording of the greatest piece of secular music ever composed.

Spannende live Aufführung dieser perfekt konstruierten Sinfonie mit perfekt kontrollierten Töne aller Instrumente. Der geniale Dirigent leitet das funktionelle Orchester echt künstlerisch mit perfekter Artikulation im perfekt kalkulierten Tempo. Alles ist perfekt!

The Bruckner 5th seem sto have a Parsifal kind of sonority to me. Klemperer's recording is 79 minutes long as compared to Furtwangler's 67. Amazing, both are good. This one is my favorite. Great sound for 1942. I think Furtwangler's own composing gave him great insight into other composers. Klemperer was a composer, too. The great thing now is so many versions on RU-vid.. I heard Sawallisch perform it with the Philadelphia Orchestra and bought a download of it from the Orchestra's website. Wonderful performance.

Very good recording. It's one of the world's first tape recordings.

17:35 o Dear God ....... this is SO beautiful ...... how is it possible to drive a complete orchestra in such a madness ..... 1942 ......

Furtwangler´s rhythm... Amazing!

This is music that speaks to the heart. For anyone who ever had the experience of one’s life being swept away by catastrophic events, the emotions are unmistakable. In Bruckner’s as well as Furtwängler’s times, the common experience was war. But the emotions in Bruckner’s music are universal and not confined to one or another particular episode in history. It speaks about the pain one experiences when one’s life is being swept away by inexorable external circumstances and one’s other emotional reactions to it. Like Beethoven’s 5th, Bruckner’s 5th was also a “fate” symphony. Furtwängler’s 1942 interpretation of the finale was grim, shadow-possessed, militant, and reeking of the terror of fighting evil with evil. No doubt it fitted perfectly with the public mood in Berlin right in the midst of WWII. However, the music didn’t necessarily have to be interpreted this way, as it could also be interpreted less stridently in the mood of “let’s get one’s hands dirty and dig oneself out of a hole.” Furtwängler’s recording in 1942 was certainly one of the most electrifying and interesting. Its documentary status in history made it uniquely special. I also love the other benchmark recordings (e.g. Jochum, Celibidache), but they did not possess the quality of music made in wartime that this one had.

Quelle énergie ! quelle vie organique ! quel souffle et quel sang, quelle souplesse !

This is the most supreme playing of Bruckner's No5. Only Furtwanger who can understands the essence of Bruckner ,can conduct the original feeling of mixture of sublime and strong earthy feeling of Bruckner as he mentioned in his great essay of "On Bruckner" in his immortal " Tone and Wort" essay! He recreated the composer's original feeling by going to the score!! if you have some doubt, pls read Furt's essay in German or English or Japanese(音と言葉）。 Sampei Takayama

17:35 what is occuring here (to the end of the movement) is something unescapable .... this utter brutality , nervousness and sheer beauty , 1942 ..... this is unique .....

thank you for uploading this.

No me canso de oír esta versión, insuperable, como crea ese ambiente casi litúrgico..... Le gustaba a Furwangler la percusión, a otros parece que les da miedo.

a treasure to savour many times.

Desde el oído del biógrafo latinoamericano más reputado (Eduardo Strorni: "Bruckner el Cantor de Dios" - Espasa Calpe-) es la mejor de las hechas por el Maestro Furwängler, añadiendo quien escribe, que a esa edad de la gramofonía, el sonido es mucho mejor que otras versiones "modernas" este Director, ejemplar en todo, hace la música como él fué, vertical en todo.

Tout simplement génial ! Quel chef et quel orchestre !

the second best symphony conducted by a conductor that seems to channel sounds like god is giving us a glimpse of what is possible. Furtwaengler did not conduct he channeled the great work and I wish he lived today...…...

Thanks.

アントン・ブルックナー 交響曲第5番 アダージオ ウィルヘルム・フルトウエングラー 指 揮 大 賛 辞 ブ ル ッ ク ナ ー 中期の傑作交響曲であります。最初は音は低くい出だしで始まり、軈て段々大きく断固たる､強音に変化していくのであります。ブ ル ッ ク ナーの本性が顕れるのであります。この巨大なる音楽こそ､ブ ル ッ ク ナー の 真 骨 頂 であります。その魂がやっと出現するのであります。そして、感 銘 極まりないものとなるのです。 擱 筆

Furtwängler alone understood Bruckner's 5th symphony. Thanks to this recording, now we do, too.

Principal direktor ,jeden z nejlepsich.super

Personalmente esta junto a la interpretación de Knapperstbusch es mi favorita.

LA VELOCIDAD ES COMO UN FERRARI. SE COME COMO VEINTE MINUTOS CON RESPECTO A OTRAS VERSIONES, COMO LA DE CELEBIDACHE.

Stratospheric!

La Cinquième de Bruckner est l'apothéose de l'architecture musicale. Malgré toute mon admiration pour Furtwängler, cette dramatisation outrancière de l'œuvre constitue un contresens pur et simple (même si les circonstances peuvent l'expliquer dans une certaine mesure).

He may have needed to fit this in between air raids.

18:19 .... ..... ...Good Lord .........

This is of non pareil Like The Bard is Like Dante was Like Fyodor is There were a lo of epigones and ecclectics and Even idiosyncraticists and synæstheticists Yet no one Matches Hım He is the Highpriest of German Music. ... His Baton is the incarnation Of an utter Apotheosis That of which Nietzsche talks When Drama and Tragedy Becomes the Agon By comingtoitselfhegelish The Truth cristalyzed and yet liquidified in Total Art Not Wagner but Furtwængler Directing Bruckner. .. Epítome of The End Not the Doors Endgame of Music in the Eighth And Ninth unaccomplished Since life ans art are But fragment not figment Here Plato is wrong The Poets are no sophistes They are the are the the being Here Heidegger chimes in He saw it and gave the prof In Hølderlin Rilke Long live German Culture Nothing like Her.

begins with beating of heart......

While my go to recording remains Haitink/Cocertgebouw, I hear subtle things In this recording I don't hear otherwise. And there is, of course a difference in stereophonic quality. But all things considered, this remastering is impressive. Not impressive is the sinful advertising in the middle of the symphony. RU-vid must understand the need to hear a symphony without interruptions. I do understand the need for RU-vid to make money. But not like that!

. . . and so i whip out my Furtwängler, and she says, 'oh my god. look at the length of that thing!' and i say, 'yeah, it plays for over an hour . . .'

This beginning .. 0:03 ...... I am asking myself if my own life has even some of a value .....

It _is_ fast, even a little hurried. His 1951 version ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4QdbzZG5vxM.html seems to slack off a bit. His wasn't the version I grew up listening to, so I have to say it's an improvement.

1. Fabulous playing from the Berlin Philharmonic, who obviously knew and respected Furtwängler. 2. By today's standards, Furtwängler's conducting is hopelessly wayward and inconstant in tempo. I myself tend to prefer a greater uniformity in tempo, more like Klemperer or Celibidache or Karajan at his best. But Furtwängler's approach may well be closer to how these symphonies were played originally. And with all its variability, the performance still works beautifully.

I feel for the string players, it is difficult enough to play at more moderate tempo. I don't know what Bruckner's markings were, however this is far too fast for me to bring out the dignity and religious grandeur of the symphony. Not for me I'm afraid.

What insight. What understanding of the music and its creator. Thanks! That being said, I am not totally pleased with the tempi. Some of the tonal color and monumental structure of the work is lost by speeding along too briskly.

Furtwanger, always the individualist, unlike Karajan whose individualism centered primarily on his fashion sense. You don't come to Furtwangler to hear what you've already heard you come to hear something new, that's why it is not recommended to go to him if you want to hear a classical work for the first time.

Carlos Kleiber hat es nicht dirigiert . So , unübertrefflich .

I would not have assumed that Bruckner was acceptable to the Nazi music establishment and Goebbels, but he must have been. Is there a a background story to this performance?

En plein régime politique du Führer, cette version fait fureur pour sa musicalité !

0:44 Hitler coughing

これはないかな、、、。

how can they play my music of freedom and love in a regime who destroy and vomit all greatness

全然５番がわかってない演奏。

After a lovely introduction, the beautiful link passage that starts from 02:21 and lasts until 02:38 is wilfully and stupidly rushed in a very childish way. There is no stringendo or poco stringendo in the score, not even in Bruckner's manuscript. What a cheap mess. Furtwangler fail.

18:07 Furtwängler was not a nazi. Ok. But his music was nazi. This is the articulation.