The following is not in any sense a discography of Furtwängler recordings. For a full listing see Rene Tremine, Wilhelm Furtwängler: A Discography (Bezons: Tahra Productions, 1997). Below are listed selected audio CD and DVD sources associated with documents and historical events discussed above. Recordings are conducted by Furtwängler unless otherwise stated. Most are now widely available. They are regularly reissued in various formats and can usually be traced without difficulty via an Internet search. Only dates are therefore given below. See also John Ardoin, The Furtwängler Record (Oregon: The Amadeus Press, 1994).

Chapter 2

Wilhelm Furtwängler (composer), Te Deum; Religiöser Hymnus; Schwindet, ihr dunklen Wölbungen; Lieder, Frankfurt a. d. Oder Philharmonic Orchestra und Singakademie, conducted by Alfred Walter, 1993

Chapter 3

Hans Pfitzner, Palestrina (complete), Julius Patzak (Palestrina), Hans Hotter (Borromeo), conducted by Robert Heger, live performance, 24 July 1951, Prinzregententheater, Munchen

Chapter 4

Hans Pfitzner, Von deutscher Seele (Op. 28), Das dunkle Reich (Op. 38), Chor und Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, conducted by Eugen Jochum

There are no known recordings of Furtwängler or Toscanini conducting Beethoven's Eroica contemporaneous with Toscanini's appearances in Berlin in May 1930. The following later performances are given by way of comparison:

Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Eroica, Op. 55 NBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Toscanini, 28 October 1939 Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Furtwängler, 19 December 1944

Chapter 5

Hindemith, Sinfonie Mathis der Maler, Bamberger Symphoniker, conducted by Karl Anton Rickenbacher

DVD, Hindemith: A Pilgrim's Progress, film by Tony Palmer

Chapter 6

Wagner, Lohengrin, extracts from Act III recorded at the Bayreuth Festival, 19 July 1936

Wagner, Die Walküre, Act III (complete), recorded at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London, 26 May 1937

Beethoven, Symphony No. 9, recorded in the Philharmonie, Berlin, 22 March 1942

Wagner, Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (almost complete; some material missing, including the Act III Quintet), recorded at the Bayreuth Festival, 15 July 1943

Bruckner, Symphony No. 8, Vienna Philharmonic Magnetofonkonzert, recorded 17 October 1944

DVD, The Reichsorchester, a film by Enrique Sanchez Lansch. Includes footage of the closing moments of the performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony given on 19 April 1942; also the complete Kraft durch Freude film of Furtwängler conducting the Meistersinger Prelude, 26 February 1942