Werner Egk and his students interviewing Wilhelm Furtwängler
(Recorded 27th February, 1951, the “Hochschule für Musik”, Berlin)
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00:00 — Criteria for casting singers
05:44 — Relationship between conductor and director
15:50 — Length of breaks/Overture to “Die Zauberflöte”
24:00 — Musical tempo
25:27 — Audience/musical intelligence
28:40 — General pauses in Bruckner’s works/Principle of the symphony/Future of music
34:20 — “Emotional music”/freedom in music
40:29 — Universality of interpretations/Sound volume and size of concert hall
46:19 — Acoustics of opera houses and concert halls
47:54 — Casting of Wagnerian roles/impact of gender/perfection and charisma
57:44 — Orchestra pit—covered or open?/The orchestra as an accompanying instrument
1:01:49 — The art of accompaniment