"Furtwängler shines at his most remarkable, inspirational best ... At the beginning of the work there is a strong and immediate feeling of mystery and tension, and the movement unfolds in dramatic, majestic fashion, superbly paced but excitingly subjective too, with marked fluctuations of pulse and tempo. No other conductor, surely, could respond so eagerly to detail and yet preserve the music's argument and sense of architecture so effectively." - Gramophone
In a major restoration this week of this superb 1949 performance of Bruckner's 8th, endless audience noise intrusions have been largely banished, the sound of the Berlin Philharmonic now shimmers, and Furtwängler's conception can finally be enjoyed to the full.
We also mark Horowitz's 35th anniversary with a 15% discount on all his recordings at Pristine.