Despite his long and fruitful performing career with the Munich Philharmonic, Günter Wand's recordings with this orchestra were held back from the public while he was still alive, to avoid competing against his major label releases with other ensembles, such as the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. In Volume 3 in Profil ...
At the forefront of Bruckner interpreters, Günter Wand developed a performing style for the symphonies that may be regarded as sufficiently exacting for the sake of structure, yet expansive enough to communicate the deep spirituality that is essential to the music. The Symphony No. 5 in B flat major is one of Bruckner's most moving documents, and ...
In mid-September 2001, five months before his death, Günter Wand conducted his final three concerts with the Munich Philharmonic, and included Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic," on the program. Volume 4 in Profil's collection, Günter Wand and the Munich Philharmonic -- the label's second series devoted to the conductor -- ...
For many Brucknerians, Günter Wand's live recordings of the symphonies on RCA are the last word in modern interpretations, and those performances with the NDR Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic rightly deserve to be held in high esteem. Yet while he was still alive, Wand's later concert recordings of the same repertoire with the Munich ...
The second volume of Documents of the Munich Years presents four American modernist works performed between 2002 and 2003 by James Levine and the Munich Philharmonic and compiled here in simulation of a live concert, complete with applause. If this had been a true concert, the programming of these challenging pieces together might have raised a ...
The fourth volume of Documents of the Munich Years simulates a full concert, yet it was actually compiled from several separate recordings made by James Levine and the Munich Philharmonic between 2000 and 2002. Even so, there are only slight variances of orchestral involvement and sound quality throughout the album, and the illusion of a live ...
Because the Munich Philharmonic has a great Brucknerian tradition that extends back to the composer's lifetime, and because Christian Thielemann earnestly wished to begin his first concert season in Munich with a Bruckner symphony, this live recording of the Symphony No. 5 in B flat major is the impressive outcome. This work, along with the ...
What's the aesthetic nexus of Tibetan Buddhism and Austrian Catholicism? The symphonies of Anton Bruckner conducted by Sergiu Celibidache. The seemingly unique combination of abysmal misery and sublime serenity achieved in the late Romantic Catholic master's music is surprisingly suited to the passionate objectivity and blissful subjectivity ...
Oehms Classics' James Levine: Documents of the Munich Years Volume 7 is an all-American program pulled together from recordings made at eight different Munich Philharmonic concerts, and featuring three works -- George Gershwin's Cuban Overture, John Harbison's Symphony No. 3, and Charles Ives' Symphony No. 2. From the outset, one notices ...
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