Tonight I've been listening to one of the CPO releases in the Felix Weingartner series - in this instance the Second Symphony and Das Gefilde der Seligen. Very lovely, lush, late-Romantic music. Mahlerian, but more accessible. I'm impressed - a cut above most of what one hears from composer-conductors.
Weingartner-like Furtwangler-was convinced that he was a composer who conducted :)
Well, based on my admittedly limited experience of both, I'd say Weingartner succeeded on that count where Furtwangler failed. ;D
Furtwangler was desperately disappointed that his music did not receive more recognition. He took his compositions very seriously and poured so much of his musical essence into them. Trouble was he didn't really know how to stop doing so ;D
