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  <Title>Wilhelm Furtwängler conducts Schumann &amp; Beethoven</Title>
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  <SubTitle>LUCERNE FESTIVAL Historic Performances, Vol. 12</SubTitle>
  <EANCode>4022143234414</EANCode>
  <LabelProductId>23441</LabelProductId>
  <PriceCode>BCA</PriceCode>
  <ReleaseDate>2017.11.24</ReleaseDate>
  <ReviewExcerpt language="de">"Die Tonqualität der von Audite bearbeiteten Aufnahmen ist allen anderen zuvor veröffentlichten Veröffentlichungen bei weitem überlegen. [...] Der Klang hat viel mehr Relief und Korpus. Furtwängler-Sammler sollten diese neue Edition nicht verpassen." (Pizzicato)</ReviewExcerpt>
  <ReviewExcerpt language="en">"[...] this is a sometimes overwhelming reading that conjures up German Romanticism in all its tensile strength and fluid emotionalism." (Musicweb international)</ReviewExcerpt>
  <ShortCommtent>A sensational archive discovery and two of Furtwängler’s all-time favourites: a live recording of the Manfred Overture (1953), presumed lost until recently and now released for the very first time, alongside Beethoven’s Eroica and Schumann’s Fourth Symphonies, remastered for the first time using the original tapes.</ShortCommtent>
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      <Title>Overture to Manfred, Op. 115</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>1953-08-26</DateOfRecording>
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          <Surname>Schumann</Surname>
          <Firstname>Robert</Firstname>
          <Born>08.06.1810</Born>
          <Died>29.07.1856</Died>
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      <Title>I. Allegro con brio</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>1953-08-26</DateOfRecording>
      <CompleteWork>Symphony No. 3 in E-Flat Major, Op. 55 'Eroica'</CompleteWork>
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          <Surname>Beethoven</Surname>
          <Firstname>Ludwig van</Firstname>
          <Born>17.12.1770</Born>
          <Died>26.03.1827</Died>
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      <Title>II. Marcia funebre. Adagio assai</Title>
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      <Title>III. Scherzo. Allegro vivace</Title>
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      <Title>IV. Finale. Allegro molto</Title>
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      <Title>I. Ziemlich langsam – Lebhaft –</Title>
      <DateOfRecording>1953-08-26</DateOfRecording>
      <CompleteWork>Symphony No. 4 in D Minor, Op. 120</CompleteWork>
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          <Surname>Schumann</Surname>
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      <Title>II. Romanze. Ziemlich langsam –</Title>
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          <Surname>Schumann</Surname>
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      <Title>III. Scherzo. Lebhaft –</Title>
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      <Title>IV. Etwas zurückhaltend – Langsam – Lebhaft – Presto</Title>
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