Furtwängler Coriolan most lively! Special transfer of Beethoven's Coriolan 1943, Berlin Philharmonic

At this channel the Coriolan is the second piece of a series of Furtwängler recordings by the Reichsrundfunkgesellschaft (RRG). Copies (analogue and digital) of the original RRG tapes were broadcasted in the 1990s. These broadcasts have been recorded with either high quality cassette or VHS recorders. I decided to avoid any digital "improvements". This approach gives you an impression of the full and warm sound of the Berlin Philharmonic under Furtwängler's baton and - even more important - brings the message of the conductor's reading better to you than CD based uploads d

To take old tapes as source for transfers has not only advantages over transfers from CDs. There is a regrettable reduction of dynamics by the FM broadcasts in the 1990s. Sometimes the recordings are faulty in different respects, e. g. short interferences of reception or tape hiss. With digital tools it is often easy to correct these faults. The problem is that such activities reduce quality, above all the liveliness. It is a myth that digital manipulations do not affect quality.

To experience the full power of this Coriolan please do everything you can to increase the quality of your music reproduction. Good speakers presupposed, use the 720p HD option YouTube offers, otherwise take standard 480p option. (Do not use 1080pHD. It improves the picture at cost of the liveliness of the music.). For listening music videos from YouTube I strongly recommend to use Google's Chrome browser. At least in this case the musical expression is more distinct than by Firefox.

A final remark to the pizzicati at the end of Coriolan (1943). If you listen to a recording with three pizzicati after the long pause at the end, you have a copy of the copy the Russian label Melodya made from the original RRG tape. Melodya added the last two pizzicati electronically and they added reverberation too. The original RRG tape has only one pizzicato after the pause. Why the last two are missing nobody knows.