Unfair to Furtwängler
Nicholas Spice, 5 December 1991
Trial of Strength: Furtwängler and the Third Reich
by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan.
Quartet, 394 pp., £30, October 1991,0 7043 2790 2 Show More
by Fred Prieberg, translated by Christopher Dolan.
Quartet, 394 pp., £30, October 1991,
Menuhin: A Family Portrait
by Tony Palmer.
Faber, 207 pp., £15.99, September 1991,0 571 16582 6 Show More
by Tony Palmer.
Faber, 207 pp., £15.99, September 1991,
“... occupied state, are in no position to judge those who have. He that is sure he is free from sin, Prieberg seems to say, let him cast the first stone. Plenty of stones have been cast in the direction of the German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. The attacks began in 1933, soon after Hitler took power, and continued until well after Furtwängler’s death in ... ”
