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This release offers a rare glimpse into the early days of Gunter Wand’s recording career. Long before his association with Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, and later
Gunter Wand’s Schubert Ninth, here making a welcome return to the catalog as part of RCA’s new mid-price reissue series, is one of the few
Gunter Wand’s NDR Beethoven cycle is one of the great ones, and these performances, while not quite the best in the set, will disappoint no
Günter Wand did not accord Schumann the same prominence in his repertoire that he did Beethoven, Schubert, Bruckner, and Brahms. In any event, there are
Pierre Monteux’s Stravinsky recordings never will be remembered for their rhythmic precision, but it’s hard to fault their unerring sense of style and character. Petrushka
In the context of Günter Wand’s familiar and truly incandescent 1987 Beethoven Ninth recording, Testament’s reissue of the conductor’s relatively obscure mono traversal from 1956
News of Günter Wand’s death arrived while listening to this release. While Wand certainly was one of the greatest conductors of the standard German repertoire
With the exception of the Fourth Symphony, Gunter Wand’s Berlin Bruckner remakes have not surpassed their NDR predecessors. The reason isn’t hard to fathom: NDR
This live performance from Japan’s Takemitsu Memorial Hall constitutes the finest of Günter Wand’s Bruckner Ninth recordings to date. With each new version, Wand seems
Having recently suffered through Adrian Boult’s hideous live 1969 Schubert Ninth on BBC Classics, what a relief it is to turn to this reissue of
