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German orchestra conductor (1912-2002)
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2024-01-11 04:30:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 (CD Review)
[…] recordings with Les Siècles, the period-instrument orchestra that he founded. However, Roth has conducted many other orchestras, and in 2015, he was appointed Gürzenich Principal Conductor as well as General Music Director of the City of Cologne. In addition, the Gürzenich Orchestra, which was founded in 1827, has been associated with the music of Bruckner for more than a century, the liner notes pointing out that “among all chief conductors after the Second World War, Günter Wand is remembered for having featured Bruckner’s symphonies most prominently; he made them the mainstay of the orchestra’s repertoire during the entire course of his long tenure as General Music Director until 1974… Under Wand’s successors Yuri Ahronovitch and Markus Stenz, the symphonies of Anton Bruckner continued to play a key role in Gürzenich Orchestra concert programmes.”The notes go on to point out that in his first concert as Principal Conductor, Roth led the orchestra […]
2022-06-27 09:00:30
Günter Wand spent the last decades of his life making recordings of the standard German repertoire, most of them superb. However, his last years coincided with the peak of record label insanity, in which everyone was making multiple recordings of everything; and so he became a one-man Bruckner industry, with new versions of the same […]
2022-05-26 01:45:09
Alex Wand – Music for Dance 2017-2020
Music for Dance 2017-2020, by Alex Wand, is a new album of selected electronic instrumental music created as accompaniment for choreographed dance. Wand’s experience with the local dance community is extensive and includes residencies with the LA Dance Project, Los Angeles Performance Practice, REDCAT, and Metro Art LA. According to the liner notes, Wand has […]
2021-11-08 05:16:00
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” (CD review)
[…] more climaxes. Under Thielemann the more gentle strands tend to stand out, which only serves to make the grandeur of the alternating passages the more problematic.The real question with any popular piece of classical music, of course, is whether a new recording of it is worth investigating, given the number of great performances already available. For instance, we already have fine performances by Otto Klemperer (EMI), Karl Bohm (Decca), Eugen Jochum (DG and EMI), Gunther Wand (RCA), Herbert von Karajan (DG), and Georg Tintner (Naxos), among many others. So, does Thielemann compete? Well, of course, he competes. It’s just that if one does not own any or all of the aforementioned recordings, they should be given preferential consideration. Otherwise, fans of Thielemann will not be unhappy with his recording.On an aside, the booklet notes I received were rather jumbled, with pages either missing or printed in the wrong order. No […]
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