Another thunderclap from January 2022. This is indeed the legendary 9e of the reopening of Bayreuth, July 29, 1951, designated by post-mortem EMI, in the absence of studio recording, as “the” 9e Symphony of Beethoven by Furtwängler. This document has been republished, including on SA-CD in Japan, and remastered in the Warner box set Furtwängler on Record. At the time, the broadcasting of Bavarian radio was relayed by various European radio stations. Seventy years later, the label Swedish Bis had the bright idea of going and listening to the sound of the analogue mono tape digitized by Swedish radio. Unexpected and unexpected shock: more treble and transparency than the source known so far. “We chose not to change anything, not to ‘brush’ the sound, not to clean and shorten the pauses or to omit audience noises in the music, but to keep the original as it was. We hope in this way to recreate the feeling of being sitting in front of an old radio in 1951, ”writes Bis. We cry about it, literally.
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