Étiquette : Erich Kleiber

• Furtwangler conducts Wagner

  

  The original podcast (narration in French, English and German subtitles) When people talk about Furtwängler, a certain cliché springs to mind for far too many music lovers. Furtwängler is supposedly a ponderous, slow conductor, embodying the Germanic tradition and a sweeping, extreme expressiveness. He is thus often compared to Otto Klemperer and contrasted with Toscanini.…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  10 avril 2026

  Discographies & Comparisons, In partnership with the Furtwängler Society, Orchestra, Reviews

  Arturo Toscanini, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Conducting, Die Walkure, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Golden Age, Gotterdamerung, Historical Recordings, History, interpretation, kleiber, La Scala, Leopold Stokowski, Lohengrin, London Symphony Orchestra, Meistersinger, New York Philharmonic, Philharmonia Orchestra, Podcast, Ring, Tannhauser, Teatro Colon, Tristan und Isolde, Wagner, Wilhelm Furtwangler

• Wagnerian musical drama in the orchestra, the virtues of lightness

  

  It is true, Wagner past his conductor life a to make the adversary of Mendelssohn, apostle of an approach all in vivacity and light tempi. No, Wagner was not an advocate of fast tempi, any more than he was an advocate of lightness. But what Wagner wanted above all was to place singing at the…

  Guilhem Chameyrat

  19 avril 2025

  Discographies & Comparisons, Opera, Orchestra

  Bruno Walter, Die Walkure, Erich Kleiber, Gotterdamerung, Herbert von Karajan, Historical Recordings, Ring, Selected discography, Siegfried, Wagner, Wilhelm Furtwangler