AL MAGNO COMPOSITOR, A LA OBRA, AL INEFABLE DIRECTOR , A LA MEJOR ORQUESTA DEL MUNDO , AL QUE BAJO A SU CANAL ESTA GRABACION Y A KZfaq QUE PERMITIO QUE PODAMOS VERLA Y ESCUCHARLA, LES AGRADEZCO CON INFINITOS LIKE.

OMG what an incredible performance. Most other performances seem dull in comparison. It is not flashy or proud, not effect seeking, it is a humane performance in the middle of that terrible year 1944.

Carlos Kleiber thought that 'no one could equal Furtwangler.' How true!!!!!!

Rest in peace, Mr. Furtwangler. You live forever with true music lovers.

there's no better intrpreter and director of Beethoven... I think that Ludwig would be astonished how someone can be so into his music...

Those in attendance in Vienna for this performance thought knew how fine it would be -- but they were in for a surprise. This was THE finest interpretation od Eroica ever!! Perhaps U'm growing old and sappy, but this simply brings me to tears .

Listening to this full piece I felt I had died and gone to heaven. It was pure, complete bliss and thorough enjoyment.

Furtwangler, Beethoven's conductor.

Such a rendition! Erotica alongside Ninth is the greatest of all the great masterpieces.

Furtwangler is born for this symphony absolutely phenomenal balance & intensity exactly expressing epic behind the composition I adore ........

I miss all those past recordings with tube tech recording gear, a less detailed sound, a rich mass sound and mono. Nowadays is a crazy run for a crystal clear sound, never a recording sound will sound as a live presence sound.

Furtwangler ha scolpito nella mia anima l'amore per la Musica Sinfonica !

Foi com grande impacto positivo e inesquecível,que ouvi,pela primeira vez,a terceira sinfonia de Beethoven, em 1979,aos meus 17 anos, através desta inigualável interpretação de Wilhelm Fürtwängler,em fita de áudio cassete.É a minha sinfonia favorita, não apenas entre as outras do Beethoven,mas entre as de outros compositores.

Favorite symphony with favorite conductor!

The simultaneous tension and beauty from 12:00-12:15. So glorious, this is definitely the most alive version ever!

Its this moment when music becomes so much more then just notes on a paper.

"With Beethoven, music became for the first time capable of expressing what in Nature is the catastrophic element. This catastrophe is no less natural than the slow organic development of evolution: it is another form of Nature's expression. So far the character of music had been epic, now it gradually became dramatic. In ancient Greece, too, Homer preceded the tragic poets". - Wilhelm Furtwangler, Concerning Music (1953)

Ningún otro director comprende a Beethoven, ningún otro director interpreta a Beethoven, ningún otro director hace el sonido de Beethoven, la fuerza, la meditación, el metamensaje, la construcción arquitectónica de la música Beethoveniana, solamente Furtwängler era capaz de transmitir el mundo de Beethoven. Simplemente insuperable.

Quale amorevole ricordo porto per mio Padre che riempiva gli scaffali di dischi di Musica Classica !

Unsurpassed, the greatest conductor conducting one of the greatest pieces ever composed, this is simply sublime. No other performance is even close!

This has been fan--tas--tic!! Thank you for uploading. Loved every note of it, including the silences.

Genial. Es un gran placer escuchar a Furtwangler interpretando a Beethoven. Gracias por compartir. Saludos desde México.

La photographie de Furtwängler est en parfait accord avec l'esprit de cette Héroïque qu'il dirige parfaitement. Il a une inquiétude dans le regard qui répond au terrible tourment de ce premier mouvement. La musique n'est pas uniquement une question de "beau son", comme le croit un certain Karajan.

thunderously beautiful , we need this encouragement in this dark age of the 21st Century ! =D

Listening to the 2nd movement Funeral March, I feel the suffering that all in attendance must have witnessed, during this point of the war. I imagine that each would hear this personally with the spirits of their departed rising to heaven. Start around 23 minutes, if you can't wait. Thank you for posting this and blessings.

The greatest interpretation of all time, without question.

So many great moments to choose from this version but to my amateur, untrained ear, one of the most remarkable is that build-up in the first movement from 7:33 - 8:16. I never have heard that segment played like that in all the versions of Eroica I've heard the last 20 years - like someone trying to hold back a snarling large dog on a leash that keeps pulling harder and harder to break free and finally does- mesmerizing and stunning!

Un critico Italiano de la poca dijo ...Mientras exista humanidad se doblegaran ante la música de Beethoven.......

Notable! Extraordinaria performance. Admiro a Furtwängler óptimo director de Beethoven!

Le Plus grand enregistrement de la plus grande œuvre de tous les temps !

... for the good that men do lives after them..... thank you maestro and of coarse Herr Beethoven

Furtwängler's best performance of the 3rd in my humble opinion! Beyond measure gratitude for the recording technology and preservation. I think even Beethoven would have been impressed after he had gotten over the shock of modern instruments. I don't have adequate words to describe my gratitude!!!!!!!

the best of the best

Diese Aufführung seiner Eroica hätte Beethoven begeistert!

The third is so powerful, so POWERFUL!

dFurtwangler Beethoven wartime : astonishing , art forever and ever

The funeral march was played at Rommel's funeral in Ulm in the fall of '44.

Wilhelm Furtwängler .... und die Wiener Philharmoniker ... ein musikalisches Phänomen! Brillant!

Thank you! It is my believe that pure beauty, love and goodness go's together with harshness pain and misery and that is why Furtwangler during the war and the downfall of Germany and mankind, could make Beethoven sound the way it needs to sound, because Beethoven himself was experiencing that when he wrote this philosophical and emotional profound work.....

Beautiful! Thank you for posting!

Thanks for this!

23:05-26:30. I've always wanted to hear this portion of the funeral march this way. Incredible.

Grazie, è meravigliosa.

I sincerely appreciate KZfaq for uploading this wonderful piece May God Bless You.

One must remember Furtwangler was married to the greatest orchestra "Berlin Phil:" a partnership never surpassed as Beethoven would agree......German composer, conductor, and orchestra. Amen.

En 1944 en Alemania se sabía lo que había sucedido y lo que estaba pasando. Se percibe profundamente la tristeza de los músicos intérpretes, la transmiten a través de esrá versión. Resignación a la derrota, muy dolorosa para ellos. Seguramente ejecutan la pieza en un bunker ñ. Arriba caen las bombas, hay devastación y desolación, la gente perece en serie, muchos heridos, familiares o amigos de los músicos que llevan a cabo un acto heróico. La orden era no dejar de producir música, mientras hubiese una mínima posibilidad física suficiente al efecto. Ejemplo heróico y sublime para toda la Humanidad y la eternidad. Dios tenga en su Regazo sus espíritus nobles y leales, bellos y engendradores de belleza ínclita, aupada por el heroismo de los Cruzados europeos y su pueblo msgnífico, de Sangre fecunda, del Listor redentor y sus discípulos de vanguardia.

L'Eroique, à Vienne, en 1944, par un chef allemand ... Incroyable interprétation où l'on frôle à tout moment l'abime. Magistral !!!

As Carlos Kleiber always stated : nobody can equal Furtwangler. Almost 80 years after Furtwangler’s death, we can still hear here that Kleiber was right.

You only have to look at a photo of Furtwangler to know he is not going to sleepwalk through a recording. I remember this recording was the first one I owned about 50 years ago followed by a Karajan DG boxed set which cannot compare for energy. I have not found a better version on utube...

nobody, nobody, interpret Beethoven the way Furtwangler did it. Nobody has even come close to him.

Excellent tempo. BRAVE, but it pays off!

Божественный Фуртвенглер!!!

Beethoven! Furtwängler! Eroica! 1944! Possible imminent death! Pure passion! Unforgettable!

The liberties Furgwangler takes with this symphony sets him far above the others. The same is true of his performance of Schubert's 9th Symphony.

Joachim Kaiser explained: "Furtwängler was never better than during WWII!" How right he is you can hear in this excellent performance. I'm also impressed by the quality of this live recording of 1944! :D I cannot listen to other interpretations without refering to this recording!

Furtwangler outstanding, beautiful.

The greatest symphonic recording that there is.

Genial, gracias por compartir es la mejor versión de la 3 del genio Beethoven que oigo.

Sublime!

Superb

Gracias!

I listen to this several times a week on an 'Eloqence' CD in my car. When I listen to other versions, I find them a bit too different, and rejoice in playing my CD again . . . but this is something else - beyond beautiful; beyond earth - beyond heaven. Thank you for posting this for us mere mortal listeners.

i have nothing but saying, "bravo".

A masterpiece with huge interpretation from a Karajan lover

Guys & gals, this is an awesome recording 😊. I send many thanks to incontrario motu!

I love this version and I understand this is Beethoven's musical tribute to a Colossus (originally intended for Napoleon). The sound and fury of it suggests his campaigns, especially coming after a funeral march is a milestone in the history of Classical music. Colossus who made the world sit up and notice after all is a mortal. Around 46' the woodwinds reprise the themes till the horns take over, have a transcendental quality. Sublime.

incredible performance by all concerned. not sure it has ever been bettered

Amazing

Furtwangler during the second world war was simply incredible, at the height of his powers.

today is 250th anniversary of the most significant of births - stop wretched world & rejoice! who better with than Furtwangler

Des moments difficiles certe , mais des moments extatiques de pur bonheur

His Eroica with the RAI Orchestra of Rome is very good.. I have it on and Olymbic LP. Probably 1953,

these clipping noises and sound distortions are THE Furtwängler !

Having got Some of Willhelm Furtwangler's Recordings in My own Record Collection I've got to admire the Man not only was he one of the Greatest Conducters of the last Century he was also a Humanitarian who despised Hitler and the Nazi's and he did his best to help a lot of Jewish Musicians when he stayed in Germany till towards the end of World war two and I found that the best Version of Tchaikovsky Symphony Number six is his old 1937 Recording P1939 and Even Arturo Toscanini another Great Conducter of the Past I admire had to admit that no one could play it like Willhelm Furtwangler could,saying that I found the best Version of Tchaikovsky B flat Minor Piano Concerto is the 1941 Recording with Vladimir Horowitz and Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra and it was such a shame that both Conducters died before they could Make Recordings in Stereo

この演奏は、戦中に行われたもの、戦後にも、レコーディングしているが、これは、カラヤンのプロイセン国立歌劇場管弦楽団の名演を凌ぐほどであり、他では、考えられない次元に到達した演奏で大変いい演奏。

Phew !!!! powerful

Maybe the most famous classical music recording that there is.

The Erotica, my fave.

Extraordinaria ejecución en la extensión de la palabra.

奇しくも、2020年12月20日この演奏に出会えたことに感謝。　心にずっしりと刻み込まれた最高の エロイカです。　私達人類が決して忘れてはならない歴史、心の叫びが突き刺さります。

Fantastic and eternity.....

Magnifica eroica,de las mejores q se han grabado,esta eroica la de klemperer del 59y la de karajan del 63 son las mejores eroicas de la historia.Esta esta muy bien grabada y la de karajan tambien,pero la mejor marcha funebre,para mi gusto es la de klemperer del 59 pero tanto esta como la de karajan del 63 como la de klemperer las mejores de la historia ESTA tiene un caracter historico se hrabo en 1944 en viena cuando ALEMANIA se puede decir q ya habia perdido la guerra y Furtwangler tenia conocimiento por parte de speer q el gobierno se queria ddsacer de FURTWANGLER.Por lo tanto esta eroica tiene un toque muy especial,solo hay que escuchar el dramatismo de su marcha funebre el momento con q FURTWANGLER LA DIRIGIO TEMIENDO POR SU VIDA LO QUE LE HIZO MARCHARSE A SUIZA

偉大で深淵で崇高で気品に満ち満ちたドイツ🇩🇪万歳、万歳、万歳

23' 47 '' à ... des minutes de musique extraordinaires.

Beethoven würde sich freuen

貴重な音源をどうもありがとうございます。

Durante l'ascolto di questa meravigliosa musica sono stato interrotto, due volte, dai cosiddetti "annunci" ! Si puo' essere piu' cafonacci di cosi' ?

Je connais de bonnes têtes toutes infatuées d'interprétations modernes ultra rapides qui voueraient aux Gémonies cette interprétation Il reste que pour moi elle est tout bonnement insurpassée.

Such a brilliant performance. Everyone in the concert hall knew that Red Army steamroller was on its way to Vienna.

German high culture. Deutsche Leitkultur! 👌

Furtwängler was the God of Maria Callas, Gleen Gould and Carlos Kleiber. We understand here why. There is nothing to add.

OMG Beethoven is so great

Esta hermosa sinfonía que compuso beethoven., se la dedico a Napoleón. ya que lo admiraba porque creían que cambiaría a Europa y también por su discurso Antiaristocratico. sin embargo cuando Napoleón se proclamo emperador.. se desilusiono tanto ..que le cambio el nombre a HEROICA..

December 1944, around the time of the Battle of the Bulge Austria hasn't fallen yet

Страшно даже представить, о чём думали венские слушатели этой симфонии в 1944 году... И кто из них пережил предстоящий им 1945-й ?

True Beethoven ! Played by the most german of germans

there is a film of this performance showing the Nazi Goebbles & others in the audience. Furtwangler was openly anti- Nazi but chose to stay in Germany despite the harassment by Hitler himself. can you imagine what feelings were raging in the minds of the musicians? their courage is outstanding

The pathos and intensity of the Marcia funebre in this recording are unparalleled. Nobody can conduct it the way Furtwängler did on this occasion (actually there were two recordings, one from 19 December and one from 20 December 1944, and what we have here is probably a combination of the two). Some people have told me that he was threatened by the Nazis, which added to the war situation itself may explain why he conducted it the way he did. El pathos y la intensidad de la Marcia funebre de esta grabación no tienen parangón. Nadie lo puede dirigir como lo hizo Furtwängler en esa ocasión (realmente hubo dos grabaciones, una del 19 y otra del 20 de diciembre de 1944, y lo que oímos aquí probablemente sea una combinación de ambas). Me comentaron que Furtwängler estaba amenazado de muerte por los nazis, lo cual, añadido a la situación de guerra, explicaría por qué lo dirigió como lo hizo.

Furtwängler: Gott gibt's den Seinen im Schlaf, heißt es. Im Wachen hat Furtwängler wie kein anderer, was draus gemacht. Warum? Er war nicht nur Musiker, sondern wie Beethoven ein großer Geist, ein großer Kopf und ein Komponist. Aus jeder Aufführung machte daraus eine eigene Übersetzung. Jeder Übersetzer weiß, daß eine Übersetzung wie eine Neu-Schöpfung ist.

ナポレオンを念頭に作曲された曲だと言われていますが🎵私には、ロシア革命成し遂げたレーニンが想起されてなりません。しかし、時代が違いすぎますかね🎵ロマン溢れるbeethoven のこの3番がとても好きです🎵素敵なフルトベングラー有り難う✨