In the last of my video talks for DG’s Wilhelm Furtwängler collection, I talk about another of the conductor’s central paradoxes.

He hated the idea of recording as an unmusical acted. But he hated even more the sight of anyone else making records so he tried to make as many of them as he could himself.

Watch.

 

The theatre has been dried out to open the season on schedule.

The first opera is Verdi’s Don Carlo, conducted by Myung-Whun Chung.