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Berliner Philharmoniker olv Wilhelm Furtwangler.
At the age of 35, Wilhelm Furtwängler (1886-1954) took the baton at the celebrated Berlin Philharmonic and concurrently held the same position at the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, where he remained until 1928. When the Nazis came into power in 1933, Furtwängler strongly and publicly opposed the Nazi agenda, despite pride in his German heritage. Furtwängler eventually fled to Switzerland at the suggestion of Albert Speer. While uninterested in recording live performances, citing the impossibility for technology to capture a mood or aesthetic, he was responsible for countless recordings, most of which were made after the war.

111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon - The Collector's Edition 2 CD15-56