THE LAST BEETHOVEN'S NINTH BY FURTWÄNGLER

 

Beethoven: Ninth Symphony

 

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Elsa Cavelti (contralto) - Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Otto Edelmann (bass)

Choir of the Lucerne Festival / Albert Jenny

Philharmonia Orchestra London / Wilhelm Furtwängler

 

Live recording made at the Lucerne Kunsthaus on 22.VIII.1954

 

This is Tahra's first SACD with the famous Beethoven Ninth conducted by Furtwängler at the Lucerne Festival and his very last performance (August 1954) three months before his death. Tahra released it for the first time in 1994; in 1995 it won the Gramophone Award and is our greatest success.

 

The new mastering allows us to listen to this concert in sound conditions approaching the fabulous quality of the original tape recorded by the Swiss Radio.

 

Historical non-vocal Gramophone Award 1995 - Replacement of Furt 1003

 

Tahra SACD FURT2001