Autumn 1947. It had only been five months since Furtwängler resumed his conducting career. And he had only performed once with his Berlin orchestra, in May, for a series of four concerts featuring an all-Beethoven programme.
In September, he conducts a series of concerts with the BPO. Two at the Titania Palast — on the 14th and 15th — as part of the BPO's season; one on the 17th in Potsdam; and, in between, a concert in the Radio season, given in the large auditorium of the Radio House, Masurenallee.
The programme is the same: Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphoses, Strauss' Don Juan, and Brahms's Second Symphony.
As we know, this has resulted in two superb recordings of works by Hindemith and Strauss. Attached is a facsimile of the concert programme for 16 September.
