Wilhelm Furtwängler (English Wikipedia)

Stefan Dosch (7 May 2019). "Als mitten im Weltkrieg große Musik entstand". Augsburger Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 24 July 2023. Viele sahen und sehen in ihm den größten Dirigenten des 20. Jahrhunderts [any saw and see him as the greatest conductor of the 20th century]

bbc.co.uk

"Arguably the greatest conductor of all time", "The Furtwangler Legacy on BBC radio, November 2004". Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2012..

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Monod, David (2005). Settling Scores: German Music, Denazification, and the Americans, 1945–1953. University of North Carolina Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-0-8078-2944-8.
Taubman, Howard (6 January 1949). "Musicians' Ban on Furtwaengler Ends His Chicago Contract for '49". The New York Times. reprinted in McLanathan, Richard B. K.; Gene Brown (1978). The Arts. New York: Arno Press. p. 349. ISBN 978-0-405-11153-2.

bsherman.net

Bernard D. Sherman. (1997) [1999]. "Brahms: The Symphonies/Charles Mackerras". Fanfare. Retrieved 5 September 2010.

christoph-eschenbach.com

Christoph Eschenbach Own Words on His Life

classicstoday.com

"The interpretation is typically manic: very fast, and very slow. It lurches about impulsively and has thrilling moments–but also some pretty distressing examples of shoddy ensemble, particularly in the scherzo and finale. It was all too seldom that Furtwängler managed to keep his band together to allow him to time his climaxes optimally. A classic case of 'overshoot' occurs at the end of the first movement, which sounds terribly rushed. The Adagio, though, is magnificent...", "Bruckner: Symphony No. 5/Furtwängler". classicstoday.com. Retrieved 10 November 2012.
"Historical Gems: Furtwängler RIAS Recordings from Audite". Classics Today.

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Ellis, James; Cairns, David (2001). "Furtwängler, (Gustav Heinrich Ernst Martin) Wilhelm". Grove Music Online (8th ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.40052. ISBN 978-1-56159-263-0.

furtwangler.fr

Smithson, Roger (1997). "Furtwängler's Silent Years: 1945–1947". Société Wilhelm Furtwängler. Retrieved 21 July 2007.

furtwangler.net

"L'atelier du Maître" by Philippe Jacquard, Société Wilhelm Furtwängler^{[dead link‍]}
"In Memoriam Furtwängler", Tahra 2004.

gramophone.co.uk

About this recording, often considered one of the most important ones of the 20th century, John Ardoin wrote: "The magnificent 1944 performance with the Vienna Philharmonic [is] an authenticated performance that is not only Furtwängler's noblest and most compelling Eroica, but one unrivalled on disc."^[207]
"A performance of prodigious classicism, it presents us with figures that seem to us to be made of stone by virtue of their nobility and of fire because of their compelling urgency, but which, on the wings of a scherzo at the pace of a march, suddenly releases the infinite – placed on record", André Tubeuf, EMI C 051-63332, 1969.
"A guide to the best recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No 3, Eroica". Gramophone. Retrieved 7 May 2019. In the high peaks of the Marcia funebre and in the finale, the 1944 Vienna performance remains unsurpassed ... No conductor articulates the drama of the Eroica – human and historical, individual and universal – more powerfully or eloquently than Furtwängler. Of his 11 extant recordings, it is this 1944 Vienna account, closely followed by the 1950 Berlin version, which most merits pride of place.
Cowan, Rob (14 March 2012). "Furtwängler – Man and Myth". Gramophone. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.

huffingtonpost.fr

"Carlos Kleiber, un don et une malédiction". Le Huffington Post (in French). 17 July 2012. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

huffingtonpost.it

"La tradizione di Furtwängler". HuffPost. 12 April 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021., "probably the greatest conductor of all time" ("probabilmente è il più grande direttore d'orchestra di tutti i tempi"), Giovanni Giammarino.

imdb.com

Taking Sides (2001) at IMDb

medici.tv

"The greatest conductor of all time", "Furtwangler's love, 2004"..

naxos.com

"Wilhelm Furtwängler Biography". Naxos. Retrieved 21 July 2007.

newyorker.com

"Wilhelm Furtwängler is widely considered the one of the greatest – if not the very greatest – conductors of the twentieth century", David Denby (1 May 2012). "Ten Perfect Orchestral Recordings". The New Yorker..

nmeeus.ovh

(in French) Biography of Schenker, Luciane Beduschi and Nicolas Meeùs.

resmusica.com

"An artist frequently regarded as the most important conductor in the history of phonography, or even of all time", Maciej Chiżyński "Wilhelm Furtwängler le géant, enregistrements radio à Berlin 1939–1945". ResMusica. 23 May 2019. Retrieved 23 May 2019.

schenkerdocumentsonline.org

Schenker Documents Online.

sinfinimusic.com

"Amazing, spur-of-the-moment inspirational intensity, probably unsurpassed by any other conductor before or since", "Sinfini Music, Top 20 conductors, November 2012"..

theguardian.com

Kettle, Martin (26 November 2004). "Second coming". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 24 July 2023.
Kettle, Martin (20 May 2005). "It is the start of the final episode". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 February 2016.

time.com

"Music: Partisans on the Podium". Time. 25 April 1949. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011.

turing-machines.com

Kees A. Schouhamer Immink (2007). "Shannon, Beethoven, and the Compact Disc". IEEE Information Theory Newsletter: 42–46. Retrieved 12 December 2007.

web.archive.org

Cowan, Rob (14 March 2012). "Furtwängler – Man and Myth". Gramophone. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
"Music: Partisans on the Podium". Time. 25 April 1949. Archived from the original on 31 January 2011.
"Arguably the greatest conductor of all time", "The Furtwangler Legacy on BBC radio, November 2004". Archived from the original on 30 May 2016. Retrieved 19 June 2012..

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Furtwängler 1995, p. 39. Furtwängler, Wilhelm (1995). Jean-Jacques Rapin [in French]; Pierre Brunel [in French] (eds.). Carnets 1924–1954 : suivis d'Écrits fragmentaires. Translated by Ursula Wetzel. Geneva: Éditions Georg. ISBN 9782825705100.
Furtwängler 1995, p. 11. Furtwängler, Wilhelm (1995). Jean-Jacques Rapin [in French]; Pierre Brunel [in French] (eds.). Carnets 1924–1954 : suivis d'Écrits fragmentaires. Translated by Ursula Wetzel. Geneva: Éditions Georg. ISBN 9782825705100.
Furtwängler 1995, p. 103. Furtwängler, Wilhelm (1995). Jean-Jacques Rapin [in French]; Pierre Brunel [in French] (eds.). Carnets 1924–1954 : suivis d'Écrits fragmentaires. Translated by Ursula Wetzel. Geneva: Éditions Georg. ISBN 9782825705100.