Furtwängler’s 1947 “Eroica“ Vienna

Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55 “Eroica“ con brio 2. Marche funebre. adagio assai - Allegro vivace 4. Finale: Allegro molto Wilhelm Furtwangler, conductor Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Recorded on November 10-12/17, 1947 February 15, 1949 at the Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Vienna We can literally take any recording of Furtwängler performing the “Eroica“ and call it a day. His particular genius for the work is extraordinary by any standard. The 1947 recording is one of his most talked about and admired, and it is certainly everything its advocates say that it is. Walter Legge produced this and his other recordings made in Vienna that year, and it was an important one in terms of the Furtwängler discography, producing some of his greatest recordings. This is still from the time of Direct-to-Disk 78 rpm technology, but it had reached its epoch by 1947; and offered the sam