Where is the safest place to study a score in depth? Especially if that score is Bruckner's Eighth Symphony. The photo below gives you the answer: comfortably seated on a public bench on a Berlin street.
Furtwängler was about to conduct the piece on 13, 14 and 15 March 1949. He recorded it twice, at the Gemeindehaus — the BPO's rehearsal hall — on the 14th, then on the 15th, during a concert at the Titania Palast.
Here is the facsimilé of the programme.
