Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...

German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886--1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both ...

German conductor and composer Wilhelm Furtwangler (1886—1954) remains a difficult enigma in music. Though never a member of Germany's NAZI party he was nevertheless associated with the regime both ...

Who is the greatest conductor of all time? The question is frequently asked and impossible to answer. Top contenders include Arturo Toscanini, Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer, but there are ...

The cellists of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra sat and smiled. An angular gentleman in an ill-fitting dress suit, Wilhelm Furtwangler by name, who had just completed his farewell concert as guest ...

There is a photograph of Arturo Toscanini and Wilhelm Furtwängler seated at a table warily ignoring each other in Bayreuth during the 1931 Wagner festival. The perfectionist Italian was at the time ...

Elisabeth Furtwängler, who has died aged 102, was the widow of Wilhelm Furtwängler, one of the most controversial and charismatic orchestral conductors, whose links to the Third Reich remain hotly ...

Brahms, Symphonies Nos. 1-4, Hungarian Dances Nos. 1, 3 and 10 and Haydn Variations, and Beethoven, “Coriolan Overture” and “Leonore No. 2” overture, performed by Wilhelm Furtwangler conducting the ...

Note: Wilhelm Furtwangler's last name is typically spelled with an umlaut over the 'a' character. The npr website does not support characters with umlauts over characters. A variation of Furtwangler's ...