, Wilhelm Furtwängler Berliner Philharmoniker - Dvořák Symphony No. 9

This performance is identical to the so-called Furtwängler "live" version from 1941 (technically and musically a doubted release from the very start), issued on Relief 813 in 1981, and coming from a tape found at a German flea market. In fact, this performance is the RRG studio production made in Munich on July 14, 1944 with the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra under Oswald Kabasta, the original tape of which still exists in the Munich Radio archives, marked also by two bars missing from the end of the second movement. Insufficient research led to the wrong attribution to Wilhelm Furtwängler and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the assertion to be a live recording. However, the performance was released under Furtwängler's name a few times again on various CD's, even though it had become clear that it was not by Furtwängler. A particularly condemnable fact is that RELIEF, who had first published the performance, released it again on CD, this time even adding the missing two bars from the end of the second movement, using mateiral from a live performance of the work -- although the owner of the firm, Herr Oberleitner, had been officially informed by the author about the true identity of the performance -- a very special case of serving Furtwängler's memory! ___from 'soundfountain'