Furtwängler Schubert Unfinished Symphony No. 8 Berlin Phil First movement part 1

[whhswhhs]

Do you know what year this was recorded?

[whhswhhs]

Wow...wonderful!

[BlutoUSN]

Exquisite...

[dalecampbl7]

I absolutely love this symphony...and to think how young schubert was when he composed it...such emotional depth....such mastery...it speaks volumes of being human.

[operalover67]

Great Furti...

[kevinlu3]

Whoever dislikes this must be those JB lovers

[dragmio]

@kevinlu3 JB? Johannes Brahms? :)

[MCRsuperVAMP]

@kevinlu3 johannes brahms was awesome >.>

[AnimeFan2055]

I'm playing this in Orchestra this year. I'm so glad that I can hear the piece on how we are going to play it! Brilliant, indeed, brilliant.

[Jmblinn13]

It's good. Very very verrrrry good.

[TheForrestal]

This is a beautiful piece of music and I have always enjoyed listening to it through headphones in my own quiet solitude. I don't know what story Schubert was telling

through this symphony but to me it is profoundly dark, melencholy, mysterious and lulling and it has my imagination setting scenes to it as I listen.

[daniel76150]

Nice interpretation , thanks 

[apexwiddy]

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[sebastianrc]

1:20

[andrews582]

Furwangler brings the same introspective quality to the 8th as he does on the 9th. The 9th is available on Duetshe Grammophone

[Rattywotin]

I love Furtwanglers honesty , Karajan is wonderful, but too fast toget there!! This is and has to be the best ever!!

[PaganiViolino]

Why is the Timpani out of tune? overall tuning its not very good…it could be the recording, but the timpani its definitely out of tune..

[CrappyRunescapeVids]

this recording is much too quiet :/

[Salmontres]

@CrappyRunescapeVids

Agreed. It's very quiet, but I never heard a rendition with so much bass. I thought it sounded amazing; I just had to turn up the volume a little too high!!

[generalcircle]

4 Peoples' ears exploded due to sheer awesomeness.

[zeemomwee]

wow, this sounds amazing, my school band is acctually playing this, my teacher transcribed it for us, with no stringed instruments.

[sobelou]

What a magnificent masterpiece of balance, emotion, dynamics. Furtwangler was like the instrumentalist playing the orchestra....Thanks for this upload!!

[jasquilaria]

I would like to buy a CD in which Furtwängler conducts the two symphonies nos 8 & 9 but I'm not sure which issue is exactly this recording. Can some one tell me? Thanks.

[Exoduso8]

4 people have hearing disorders

[pedagogyagent]

@Exoduso8 and no taste ......

[haroonriazb]

@Kievest very profound

[MIndependencePhoto]

The best moment: 05:30

Just AMAZING...

<3<3<3

[noodlequest002]

beautiful. stunning. best piece i've ever played/heard.

[paulostroff99]

Superb is an understatement!!TY for posting.

[federricoilgrande]

La versione ideale dell'Incompiuta :)

[dragchute86]

Mozart had the unrivaled natural talent

Beethoven had the unrivaled skill

Schubert had the unrivaled perseverance

[gnubboleso]

the best interpretation imo

[Spiritakis]

I have never been fan of Furtwängler, but now - for once - I am swept off my feet. Stupendous performance! The climax around 5:30! Those trombones that so many conductors silence, here Furtwängler brings forward and the result is simply magnificent.

Thanks a lot for posting!

PS Does anybody know the year of the recording?

[TheMediaman6]

@Spiritakis As a clarinet player, this is an exciting part for us as everyone is playing at full tilt. This was one of my first pieces when I was thrust into being a better player at an early age. I learned syncopation at the beginning the hard way; a Bassoon player hitting me on the head with his folder. Laugh!

[spider47]

Oops! Where I wrote 'composer', I meant 'conductor'! My bad; ought to do more proofreading before posting.

[spider47]

I've only in the last few months discovered Herr Furtwangler, and must say that I am impressed with his masterful interpretations of the works he conducted, though I've only experienced him through the medium of YouTube. In fifty years of listening to classical music, his conducting has given everything I've heard here an extraordinary quality, a 'glamour' if you will, that I haven't experienced from any other 20th century composer. My fave work he led, besides this, is 'Ride of the Valkyries'.

[psychoLV]

i love part since 5:20,i played it 3 years ago,that was fantastic

[ShadowZelda3]

Texas State Symphony Orchestra just played this yesterday. Man, is there a COMPLETE difference from hearing it on youtube and experiencing it LIVE, especially on the big hits where you can feel the intensity pulsing through your whole body!

[numair23]

This is certainly one of the best interpretations of this piece. I don't think most conductors understood how important the small changes of timing were to this symphony. It hurts to hear this piece misinterpreted. It naturally sounds manic depressive, Furtwaengler understood this.

[ufosenbomen]

I see Tom Cruise solving a crime in front of me now, from the film Minority Report... lol

[dogsnsoccerrox]

we're playing this song in band. i love it.

[noughtyking07]

shut up and listen  ok the best part is since 5:20

[thepie567]

incredible peice of music..

[watcheroftheskies521]

Turn up the volume when listening ... !

[BiPika]

This music is in the movie Minority Report and I thought is was one of the most epic things in the whole movie! Ö It's been so long since I've seen this movie, but I was just watching an episode of the Simpsons (believe it or not :P) and this music was there mentioned and now I'm totally in love with it x)

[Deviltje123]

I love listening to this when studying...I've just recently discovered classical music and I really like this piece.

[muzicluvvver]

we just played this! :)

it was awesome-

the clarinet was so fun to play in this one because i have the counter melody or the melody often! :D

[SuperCathi07]

I am playing this right now, and it is so much fun to play. When I found out that I was playing his unfinished symphony, I was so freakin excited. The first movement is my favorite =)

[spider47]

Furtwangler was truly a great conductor, some of the other things he led I prefer his version by far. Imagine what he could have done with modern recording technology!

[Z15071410]

Great!!!

[beerdog101]

Doesn't it have just a greater profundity than other conductors give it? Especially compared to Toscanini who whistles it off as a delightfully appealing tuneful piece of music...

[Alma122509]

Super!!! Thumbs up for the upload!

[pelikaaann]

The best version....

[paulostroff99]

Awesome

[paulostroff99]

Awesome

[alonsoamadeus]

the worst comment, really.

[locomotifx]

I like this. Thankyou vstasov!

[MaestroTJS]

What a shame the recording equipment was nowhere near the level of the performance. The timpani in particular are overbearing at times. Nonetheless, this is an outstanding interpretation.

The passage beginning at 3:53, where the celli and basses sink to a C, is one of my favourites in all symphonic literature. This is music rising out of the abyss, reaching a suffocating climax that is only "relieved" by an even more depressing chord (4:41-4:42).

What S. would have done had he lived longer...

[Decklocation]

SHOE BERT LOLLLOLLOLOLOLOLO

[Kunsterfreut]

@Decklocation its not shoebert its schUbert ....british and their accent...quite terrible..

[Decklocation]

@Kunsterfreut SHOE BERT LOLLLOLLOLOLOLOLO

[brassking09]

i love this peace so much. i think Schubert is one of the greatest composers of his time. All hats off to the Berlin Phil. They played this piece with so much emotion and intensity. I love it.

See me... i play jus about everything except woodwinds and harp.

I have also have had the pleasure of playing this piece with my high school

symphony orchestra. Very very good experience.

[123must]

Excuse me, Northestwind, you are really sayng that " our full orchestra plays it a lot better " ? Better than Furtwangler and the Berliner. I'm very,very anxious to listen to your " full orchestra " !

[123must]

The best Director of all times. After, his pupil and collaborator Sergiu Celibidache, togheter

coducting the Berliner, till the coming in of the nazi-king Mida Herbert von Karajan

[ikpz2020]

Word

[chocotastic]

@northestwinds Unless your full orchestra is the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam, I highly doubt your recording is going to be better than the Berlin Phil...

[imaginaruis]

@northestwinds I don't know about music much, but Furtwangler's recordings always sound somewhat epic to me.

[Kunsterfreut]

@imaginaruis epic is the wrong word dude....

[imaginaruis]

@Kunsterfreut that's how I feel it.Maybe my feeling is wrong then? I'd be happy if you corrected me. Thanks!

[Kunsterfreut]

@imaginaruis i can correct you if u want it so bad^^

epic means something narrating you know? like a roman and this has nothing to do wiht music in my opinion. but i know what you want to say with that . its overcoming right? or something in that way...

[naniday1]

Wow this is awesome. I had the honor to play this with my high school orchestra and it was an AMAZING experience. I loved every moment of it.

[xenonangel799]

I'm playing this piece in symphony and it's amazing! I'm a principal bass player, and even my part's good! :)

[newFranzFerencLiszt]

wow, should be an awesome experience playing in an orchestra! isn't it?

[Harley091594]

@newFranzFerencLiszt

playing it in orchestra is amazing. i'm a 1st violin. i can also play the bass, so i know bass players get an amazing part in the song too.

all in all, a very awesome piece.

[hophmi]

Never have I heard this with so much intensity. The basses growl at the beginning, and there is nothing like it.

[lydialikespancakes]

Playing this piece for symphony. Great piece, quite AMAZING.

[Fallingtoofast]

I'm studying this piece for As Level, i's my favourite. I have to learn all of this and more...of by heart XD

[ditogam]

Simply AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL!!!

[muurtalo]

Furtwangler is the man. No disrespect to anybody but there are many great conductors, and there is Furtwangler...

[FellowTraveller]

@ muurtalo I hold Furtwangler and Tosconini as the 20th Century's best two Conductors different style for the each of them but both just "send me"  FT

[slippymuddy]

this is a fantastic performance. i love the way it isnt rushed...the conductor and performers deliberate in such a way that we are yearning for more...very dark, very striking.

[swimmerboy13126]

A great performance but i think it just needs a little more first bone. That may be because i play trombone :p

[Insanelycoolprincess]

This is my favorite movement. I love Schubert's Unfinished Symphony. My favorite part of this wonderful piece is at 2:20

[cutencrazy07]

I totally agree with you. My favorite part is at 2:20 as well. I want to play this piece so bad. When I heard this piece, I was very very impressed

[Jragir]

It's interesting... As you listen to the piece you get the feeling that the melody is familiar, even if you've never heard it before... It's like part of the melody is chemical, so much a part of us that we cannot help but react. This performance and song brought me to tears. Thank you for posting.

[paganiniGOGO]

you've heard it before.

[supernole100]

@Jragir

You are right. This was piece was written around the time of Beethoven, and Schubert was a fan of Beethoven's music. So he took some of Beethoven's rhythms and put them in here at different spots. But none the less. This is an amazing piece.

[sheepflock]

Es war wunderschön! :D

[FellowTraveller]

GIEL! sehr gut und danke ! funf stern, naturlich. FT

[Kievest]

Furtwangler is the sherpa who leads the listener to the Himalayan summit. Schubert's Unfinished has a foot in two worlds...Vienese classicism and Romanticism. It literally screams Beethoven and yet Schubert, the great song writer, makes the instruments sing with radiant ex- pression and romantic sonority! Furtwangler's reading is dramatic and, at times, mysterious in its dark brooding. The Berlin Phil is brilliantly responsive in every way. Thank you for this magnificent post!

[goonge101]

@Kievest This comment 'literally screams' ridiculous pretentiousness...

[hinni4]

@Kievest

Yep

[billyguns2]

This is one of the great performances of this great work.

[paulostroff99]

Furtwangler,BPO,Schubert unfinished symphony,what more could we want! Bravo!

[CurzonRoad]

Furtwangler & the BPO.... an unbeatable combination! THANK YOU!