Wilhelm Furtwängler Conducts Wagner Favorites

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Album Info

Release Date: 1984

Label: Discocorp

Sleeve notes "Furtwängler Recalled" reprinted with permission of the "Los Angeles Times" Calendar, Sunday, December 17, 1972.
According to the labels, tracks A1-A2, B1-B2 were recorded in 1940. Track B3 was recorded 25-27 April 1954.
John Hunt's Discography "the furtwängler sound" (6th edition, 1999) identifies the recordings as follows:
Track A1: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna, 2-3 December 1952
Track A2: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin, 15 March 1938
Tracks B1 and B2: not listed [probably from La Scala Milan, 22 March 1950]
Track B3: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin, 27 April 1954