Re: Furtw?ngler radio recordings 1939-1945

On Fri, 15 Nov 2024 10:37:25 +0000, Roland van Gaalen wrote:

Familiar pattern:
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- A writes with enthusiasm about X
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- B criticizes X
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I recommend taking everything with a grain of salt.
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Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands

Funnily dan didn’t even criticize the recordings… just the morality of
Furtwängler — I think - while I haven’t listened to the recordings above
- that Furtwängler is a great conductor and he has a great sense for
phrasing in much of Beethoven as well as Mozarts DG
And interestingly Dan doesn’t see a problem with Celibidache and his
teacher Tiessen who were also on the Nazis payroll… - and Tiessen like
Furtwängler was against the Nazis… not sure about how Celibidache viewed
the Nazis though — probably he didn’t like them…
Not to mention that Celibidache never really addressed the wrong doings
of the Germans after the war (at least not that i know of) — did he ever
talk about the Shoah and the holocaust; seems he just escaped into his
delusional Buddhist world view? You know chilling in the garden,
dreaming about how beautiful the world is after the murder of 6 million
Jews? Why think about the past? Just live in the moment like those
idiotic Buddhists
He came from Romania… did ever talk about the plight of Jews in Romania?