Schubert - Symphony n°9 "The Great" - Vienna / Furtwängler 1953 

The first time I heard this symphony I was in a record store auditioning Toscanini's version. I was crushed. This wasn't Schubert no! No! NO! The old man who ran the store saw that I was nearly in tears listening to this awful rendering. With a knowing smile he reached on a shelf and withdrew The Furtwangler recording published by Decca. Through the window of the listening booth he could see my delight. As I emerged from the little room with this treasure, he said softly, so.....you are a SCHUBERTIAN. I was eighteen then and I'm now seventy-eight and I still remember the experience as if it were yesterday.

Que lindo el jovencito Furtwangler,gran futuro le deparaba como músico y exelente director.en está obra se puede apreciar esa calidad de profesionalismo.

I am always bowled over by Furtwängler. How does he do it? Listening his recordings is like a revelation. And people call it old-fashioned. Well, there are tastes... and tastes.

One of the earliest portraits that I know of of Furtwangler. A young mastermind looking away, lips closed but not pressed. Relaxed. Having a vision, thinking(? ) One can only wonder what went on in that head. One of the greatest conductors of the 20th century.

furtwängler: the great conductor conducting the great symphony.

Echt dynamische live Aufführung dieser großartigen Sinfonie mit milden Töne aller Holzinstrumente und gut phrasierten Töne aller Streichinstrumente. Der geniale Dirigent leitet das ganze Orchester im relativ schnellen Tempo ohne schleppende Töne. Einfach erregend!

Wonderful . Furtwangler takes us as close to the spiritual world as we are allowed to get. I read once that he said he needed his German Audiences, that he worked with the orchestra tirelessly on transitions, and that he thought if a conductor couldn't accompany, he couldn't conduct.

I'm only interested in music. This is an extraordinary recording - not many conductors can interpret this great symphony like Wilhelm Furtwängler and the VPO! One of the greatest symphonies ever! Love it!

Любимейший из дирижёров....Величайший из музыкантов!

Me llega hasta lo más profundo de mi ser ,interpreta toda la angustia, el dolor, que sentimos los humanos durante nuestra existencia.

En ce soir de Noël 2020, un sublime moment pour commencer la soirée dans la joie et la paix qui irradient ce chef d'oeuvre si magistralement interprété ! Merci pour ce cadeau, joyeux Noël !

Furtwangler imbatível! Uma pérola que jamais será esquecida! Para sempre maestro! Bravo!

Aunque se la llame la grande, para mi es una sinfonía menor dicho esto, goza de la parte poética que Schubert siempre tuvo, esta interpretación, en vivo y en Salzburgo por el maestro Furtwangler, creo que nos aporta una visión muy interesante. No es ni de lejos la mejor, ni tampoco la de D. Arturo, pero da gusto escucharla. Gracias

Really, really beautiful performance!, producing the shock of recognition: This is it!!

Beautiful synphony,beautiful so young W.F.💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Seres escoj8dos por Dios 🙏 que tiernos y en especial guapo. ,bonito. 😂💗🙏🇮🇷. Bravo !!!!!

The Great Conductor

Ｉ'd always boared and uninteresting this symphony ever I heard this uploaded, thank you!

Great interpretation of a Great Symphony. Thanks for the upload.

Interesting recording with lots of tension. But Furtwängler's 1942 version remains the greatest Schubert 9.

I'll have to dig out my LP of Fritz Reiner's recording with the Chicago Symphony, I think. I've considered it to be the be all and end all forever. But this is impressive. It's seamless. But I can't believe there's an ad right in the middle of the second movement! It's bad enough the ads can be between movements. Yet another ad, interrupting the third movement. I guess I'll have to pay for ad free. I must say, despite the ad complaint, the technology that made it stereophonic is amazing!

Superbe !

録音なども加味するとフルトベングラーのこの曲の最高の演奏のように思える。

what an absolute joy

¡SUBLIMEEEEEE!

Before I played this work in my university orchestra as a freshman cellist, I thought Schubert wrote nothing but dippy songs about milkmaids and roses and Marche Militaire. HOW WRONG I WAS!!!!!!!

Muy buena version,per la mejor version para mi gusto es la q grabo en epoca de la guerra

Don't know why ,every time I listen to the opening of Bruckner's Fourth. I always think about Schubert's "Great".

Thank you

シ ュ ー ベ ル ト 交 響 曲 第 9 番 ｢グレード｣ ウィーン･フィルハーモニー交響楽団 ヴィルヘルム・フルトヴェンベングラー 指 揮 大 賛 辞 ｢グレード｣と呼ばれる､この交響曲は、確かに グ レ ー ド なのです。 人は見掛けによらぬものである､という言葉はありますが、あの未完成や歌曲を作曲した人だとは､思えない程この交響曲は､大きく強靱なのです。この曲を聴かないで、人を判断すべきではないと深慮したのです。 フ ル ト ヴ ェ ン グ ラ ー は、その機微を、単純に力強く捉えて、偉大な音楽を創造したと思うのです。フ ル ト ヴェ ン グ ラ ーの愛した箴言｢すべて偉大なものは単純である｣の深き意味を真剣に考えなければ、この人生､何も分からないまま､死に往くものなのです。 擱 筆

Better than the studio recording

Schubert's 9th at lesser hands is reduced to a cute collection of Disney-like folk tunes. Furtwangler's mastery brings out the drama and structure of this masterpiece. This really is a reference piece of music. Furtwangler also works wonders with Schumann's 4th Symphony -- find it here and hear it in its original instrumentation glory.

Ese retrato de Schubert no lo conocía. Pero me alegro de que pongan una foto del compositor y no de las "stars". Ellos son las verdaderas estrellas.

Schubert, you absolute wonder! Beethoven's expansiveness was so original, and he runs with it beautifully, while giving stuff for Wagner. Those 1st movt. horns, magic.

The opening french horn has very peculiar attack, as if it was bouncing off a couple of reflecting walls.

Schubert wrote two symphonies in C Major, the 6th and the 9th. The 9th Symphony of course was his last completed and was not performed to satisfaction until after his death. It is obviously a masterwork. But because of his writing two in C Major, there was danger of confusion, which symphony is being referred to. Thus the 6th is called the Little C Major to distinguish it from the 9th called the Great C Major . Unfortunately the distinction is often neglected and the 9th becomes called the "Great Symphony" by abbreviation. As fine as Schubert's 9th is, it is not greater than Beethoven's 9th and we do not call it the Great Symphony. I recommend we observe the original meaning going back to Schumann and Mendelssohn and call Schubert's 9th the Great C Major Symphony.

Strangely great

"Finished"

Este director es increíble. Por cierto ¿era nazi? En cualquier caso, fué un artista inigualable en la dirección orquestal.

ist the must recording to have mono Sound ...no Multi miking.....and live again from vienna Austria...where it all began...Haydn, Mozart,.Beethoven,.schubert,.Brahms,.bruckner,.strauss father+son,.Schönberg....etc.

Fue un hombre valiente, que se jugo la vida defendiendo a sus músicos judíos, fue juzgado y declarado inocente, ademas de todo esto fue un enorme director de orquesta, y ciertamente un ser digno, y no como el nazi "del pequeño Karajan"

この演奏では、唯一のＬＰより音質は良いかもしれぬ。情報量も多い。ただ、高弦に艶があれば尚良い。

誰だこのフサフサは！

You will never ever hear so utterly unrelenting a final coda...

Das Fartwrangler

Having got three Versions of this Work the two Sir John Barbirolli and the Hallie Orchestra Recorded in the 1950's and 1960's and the Yehudi Menuhin Recording again Made in the 1960's all on His Master's Voice I've got to admit that this Recording is very flat and boring and Probably didn't sell very well