Furtwängler bent phrases, extended climaxes, caressed lyrical passages-he went beyond the score in ways that most conductors would no longer dare.
Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) is widely considered the one of the greatest-if not the very greatest-conductors of the twentieth century, and most of the recordings we have of Furtwängler were made at live performances and could hardly be described as perfect.
Spirit, power, phrasing, tempo, expressiveness-all these things matter more than note-perfect execution. I don’t know that perfection is of the greatest importance in music-making.
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