From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
What’s this record doing on my deck? I have listened to Furtwängler’s own recordings of his overlong second symphony, and have heard it performed live by Daniel Barenboim with the Berlin Philharmonic without walking out. The work spends three-quarters of an hour going nowhere.
Furtwängler composed it in Switzerland after fleeing Berlin...
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