Word: ngler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...defiant reply to the doubting voices of tradition: "Some people treat us as if we were still kids in the playpen. All of us have already done enough to be more highly regarded than that. I think we will be as great as the generation of Furtwängler and Toscanini...
...Tempest. To keep in touch with distant friends, Mehta runs up telephone bills of $1,500 a month, thinks nothing of playing recordings by the great German Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler over a transcontinental wire to Barenboim. Sleepless in New York City at 5 a.m. one day just before New Year's, he suddenly realized that in Vienna, where it was 11 a.m., the Vienna Philharmonic would be playing one of its traditional New Year's Johann Strauss concerts. He put in a call to the concert hall, had the manager hold the phone...
...three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupré) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings...
HINDEMITH: SYMPHONIC METAMORPHOSES ON THEMES BY CARL MARIA VON WEBER (Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting the Berlin Philharmonic; Deutsche Grammophon). Choreographer George Balanchine composed his Metamorphoses to this music: beetlelike creatures eventually turn into birds. Furtwängler, an early champion of Hindemith, calls upon his own powerful magic to translate the themes into various musical modes, from unsettling nervous buzzings to biting jazz. On the other side, Furtwängler conjures up a more peaceful succession of Metamorphoses, also written in the 1940s, by the 81-year-old Richard Strauss...