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Title: Furious Beethoven
Review: This is one the best transfers of Furtwangler's famous 1942 Berlin Ninth. It still doesn't sound great - the timpani sounds like mortar fire at times in the first two movements - but it probably can't get much better. It seems to be on par with the Music & Arts transfer. As for the performance, it is like nothing else by any other conductor, or even other Furtwangler recordings. It is variously described as ferocious, cyclonic, volcanic, etc. In other words, not at all like the 1954 Philharmonia recording. But it still has all the familiar Furtwangler touches; the tempi varying in the same ways at the same spots. It is basically the standard Furtwangler interpretation circa 1951-1953, but more so.
