Gunter Wand

Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2001)

Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 365 Mb | Total time: 78:51 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 74321 89101 2 | Recorded: 1983

What a Brahms cycle! Günter Wand’s fairly brisk tempos, astute sense of linear clarity, and palpable dynamic intensity often hold a modern-day sonic mirror to Toscanini’s way with the composer. Listen to how the First symphony’s driving introduction ever so gradually eases into the incisively shaped main theme, or notice the fourth-movement introduction’s seamless yet almost improvisatory transitions. The Third’s difficult-to-balance first movement is all of a piece, with the sustained wind passages, brass outbursts, and often buried lower strings contoured in revelatory perspective.
Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2001)

Günter Wand, NDR-Sinfonieorchester - Johannes Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 (2001)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 386 Mb | Total time: 79:12 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Red Seal | # 74321 89102 2 | Recorded: 1982, 1983

What a Brahms cycle! Günter Wand’s fairly brisk tempos, astute sense of linear clarity, and palpable dynamic intensity often hold a modern-day sonic mirror to Toscanini’s way with the composer. Listen to how the First symphony’s driving introduction ever so gradually eases into the incisively shaped main theme, or notice the fourth-movement introduction’s seamless yet almost improvisatory transitions. The Third’s difficult-to-balance first movement is all of a piece, with the sustained wind passages, brass outbursts, and often buried lower strings contoured in revelatory perspective.
Günter Wand, Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.6 (1989)[

Günter Wand, Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No.6 (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 243 Mb | Total time: 54:55 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Victor Red Seal | # RD60061 | Recorded: 1988

Suddenly, and not before time, the Sixth Symphony of Bruckner is riding high. And deservedly so since it is the tersest of his mature symphonies and the most openly exultant. Unlike the superficially more alluring Fourth, it needs a real musician to direct it, no mere master of orchestral ceremonies. What's more, it needs a Brucknerian with a passion for musical logic, a musical realist rather than a musical romantic. As such it is a work better suited to a Rosbaud, a Klemperer, or a Wand rather than someone like Jochum or Furtwangler however inspirational they may be at certain critical moments in the score.

Gunter Wand - Live Recordings (2017) (33 CDs Box Set)  Music

Posted by murena at Jan. 7, 2018
Gunter Wand - Live Recordings (2017) (33 CDs Box Set)

Gunter Wand - Live Recordings (2017) (33 CDs Box Set)
EAC Rip | FLAC (Image+.cue, log) | Covers included | 7,52 Gb
MP3 320 kbps | 33 CDs, 31:44:47 min | 4,3 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Sony Music

This gigantic 33 CD boxset features Wand's stunning recordings with renowned orchestras such as the Berliner Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra and NDR-Sinfonieorchester. This edition contains magnificent recordings personally authorized by Wand himself, such as Beethoven, Brahms, Bruckner and Schubert symphonies.

Günter Wand - Günter Wand Conducts Schubert (2017)  Music

Posted by SERTiL at May 2, 2017
Günter Wand - Günter Wand Conducts Schubert (2017)

Günter Wand - Günter Wand Conducts Schubert
Classical | MP3 CBR 320 kbps | 265:19 min | 609 MB
Label: RCA Red Seal | Tracks: 33 | Rls.date: 2017

Once again, the series offers cornerstones of the orchestral repertoire, including two complete symphony cycles. In the late 1970s and early 80s, Günter Wand, one of the most revered interpreters of the Austro-German repertoire, recorded all the Schubert symphonies with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra. It is still a benchmark.
Günter Wand, Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8  (1989)

Günter Wand, Sinfonieorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1989)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 394 Mb | Total time: 86:21 | Scans included
Classical | Label: RCA Victor Red Seal | # RD60364 | Recorded: 1987

There are not a lot of recordings of the 1887 edition of the 8th. Of those, the selection of actually good (i.e. not marred by performance or recording problems) is even smaller. Out of the small number of recordings of this edition, this is in my opinion the best. The fast movements are paced just right (fast but not too fast), and the slow movement is not too ponderous. The playing is top-notch, with a particular nod to the horns and low brass, and the interpretation is fiery and not too reserved.
Günter Wand & Gürzenich Orchestra Köln - Mozart: Serenades, Symphonies (2020)

Günter Wand & Gürzenich Orchestra Köln - Mozart: Serenades, Symphonies (2020)
FLAC tracks | 04:47:07 | 1,4 Gb
Genre: Classical / Label: Universal Music Division Decca Records France

Conductor Günter Wand was one of a handful of musicians who were working before World War II and whose career remained viable at the end of the twentieth century. In contrast to the best known of his peers, Sir Georg Solti and Rafael Kubelik, he was the opposite of the jetset, international conductor, and limited the number and scope of his engagements, primarily in Europe. Although Wand composed a small number of works, including ballet music, orchestral songs, and one cantata, he was known by most listeners as a conductor. His performances were noted for their precise attention to detail and special care in matters of stylistic propriety.

Best of Beethoven (2020)  Music

Posted by ciklon5 at June 14, 2020
Best of Beethoven (2020)

Best of Beethoven (2020)
FLAC tracks | 03:01:56 | 805 Mb
Genre: Classical / Label: Universal Music

The perfect introduction to the music of Beethoven especially for the curious consumer taking their first steps into his universe: from the “Moonlight Sonata” to “Für Elise” and the complete Symphony No.5.

VA - RCA Red Seal: Best 100 (2008) (100 CDs Box Set)  Music

Posted by murena at April 14, 2018
VA - RCA Red Seal: Best 100 (2008) (100 CDs Box Set)

VA - RCA Red Seal: Best 100 (2008) (100 CDs Box Set)
WEB FLAC (Image+.cue) | 100 CDs, 115:09:10 min | Covers included | 27,9 Gb
Genre: Classical, Opera / Label: Sony BMG

The Japanese company, BMG Japan, sorted the original RCA RED SEAL CDs according to the composers and the year when the music pieces were created. BEST100 series are the best representative CDs, which were carefully chosen from those music pieces by acting and recording, and they were released again with the mark of RCA BEST100. These CDs are the most impressive records in the classical field at RCA’s best. Theoretically, we could find the single originals of those CDs, but BMG Japan reorganised excellently for everyone. During BMG Japan period, it was released for the first time in 1999 and for the second time in 2008 after SONY took over BMG. BEST100 series belong to the latter.

VA - Debussy: Édition centenaire (2018)  Music

Posted by delpotro at June 20, 2018
VA - Debussy: Édition centenaire (2018)

VA - Debussy: Édition centenaire (2018)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 981 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 672 Mb | 04:52:36
Classical | Label: Sony Classical

March 25th marks the hundredth anniversary of the death of French composer Claude Debussy. His work and life will be celebrated all year with numerous events and concerts dedicated to him. This 4CD compilation gathers rare and great recordings addressed to both specialists and curious consumers. Some of these recordings have been out of the market for years and are now available again, like Mikko Franck and Radio France Philharmonic Orchestra orchestral program (Images, Printemps, Prélude à l'après-midi d'un Faune), which received many awards, or the great Catherine Collard's Préludes (books I and II). Other performers included on this product are Nathalie Stutzmann, M. Tilson-Thomas, E. Pekka Salonen, Günter Wand.