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Dear members, In the next few days, we will be offering you an exceptional document for download: a recording of Anton Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony that Furtwängler conducted in 1941. This moving recording is brought to you thanks to the authorization of the Wilhelm Furtwängler Center of Japan and its (…)

Dear members, dear members, We are pleased to present the last two productions of the Japanese WF Centre. WFFC2004-HYM Beethoven Seventh Symphony (January 1950) & Coriolan overture (November 1947) – Wiener Philarmoniker Available in our shop. CD WFFC2005-HYM Tchaikovsky Sixth Symphony (1938) – Berli (…)

Dear members, On January 16, our Extraordinary General Assembly was to take place. We learned on January 10 that, for health reasons, the room where it was to take place can no longer accommodate us. The current situation does not allow us to have visibility. Fixing a new date for our EGM would be a (…)

Dear members, A difficult year has just ended. While caution is in order, we can still hope that 2021 will be a renaissance. Please therefore receive our best wishes for this New Year. I take this opportunity to remind you that our EGM, except for new government instructions, will take place on Janu (…)

Dear members, Due to the sanitary measures in France, we had to cancel our Extraordinary General Meeting of November 14. We were able to set a new date. This will take place on January 16, 2021. An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held: On Saturday, 16 January 2021 at 16:00 Paroisse St Pierre S (…)

Dear members, We present to you the latest CD published by our friends from the Wilhelm Furtwängler Center in Japan. In the coming days, you will be able to read the column that our friend and member Daniel Cordova will devote to him. This record can be bought in our online shop at a price of 17€ (f (…)

Dear members, The announcement of a new lockdown forces us to postpone, sine die, our EGM. We will tell to you in good time the new date. While waiting for better days, may Wilhelm Furtwängler help you through this difficult period.

Dear members, An Extraordinary General Meeting will be held on Saturday, November 14th 2020 at 15:00 Paroisse St Pierre Salle Sainte-Élisabeth 90bis, avenue du Roule 92200 Neuilly-sur-Seine It will aim to: 1) Submit to you new statute (here attached, in French). 2) If approved, to elect a new govern (…)

Chères adhérentes, chers adhérents, 2020 est une année difficile. La vie de chacune et de chacun s’est vue bouleversée. Les mélomanes ont vu concerts, opéras et festivals annulés. La Musique, comme toutes les autres activités, a subi de plein fouet cette crise sanitaire. La SWF en a également subi l (…)

We have written in these columns about the two big boxsets released over the past year that have been devoted to Furtwängler: that produced by the Berlin Philharmonic comprising the totality of his recordings from 1939 to 1945, and the compilation made by Universal from all the recordings that label (…)