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Günter Wand
12+ albums
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Günter Wand (January 7, 1912 in Elberfeld, Germany – February 14, 2002 in Ulmiz near Bern, Switzerland) was a German orchestra conductor and composer. Wand studied in Wuppertal, Allenstein and Detmold. At the Cologne conservatory, he was a composition student with Philipp Jarnach and a piano student with Paul Baumgartner. He was a conducting pupil of Franz von Hoesslin in Munich, but was otherwise largely self-taught as a conductor. Career: Wand started his career in Cologne, where he was to stay for several decades, as a conductor of the Cologne Opera in 1939. After World War II his position in Cologne was consolidated as he became Generalmusikdirektor in charge of both the opera and the Gürzenich Orchestra, which he conducted until 1974. In 1948, he also started teaching conducting at a music school in Cologne. From the early 1950s he guest-conducted a number of orchestras, making his London debut in 1951 with the London Symphony Orchestra. Other orchestras who invited him included the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne and Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. After several recordings of Mozart, Haydn and Beethoven with the Gürzenich for a French subscription collection in the mid 1950s, he made no studio recordings for about three decades with the exception of an appearance with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra on Decca Records, accompanying Wilhelm Backhaus in Robert Schumann's Piano Concerto (his only recording with that orchestra). In the 1970s he recorded the complete symph
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Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: Poco Allegretto
4372Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68: Un poco sostenuto. Allegro
2553III. Poco allegretto
2014Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: Allegro con brio
1715Symphony No. 9 In D Minor, Op. 125: Presto. "O Freunde, Nicht Diese Töne!". Allegro Assai
1646Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74, "Pathétique": III. Allegro molto vivace
1247Pictures at an Exhibition: Promenade
1108Symphony No. 3 in F Major, Op. 90: III. Poco allegretto
1069Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic" (Haas Version): I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
9610Allegro moderato
91albums
Stravinsky, I.: Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments / Zimmermann, B. / Fortner, W.: Symphony / Ligeti, G.: Lontano
Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 - 9
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Haydn: Symphony No. 76 - Mozart: Serenata notturna, K239 - Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Arr. M. Ravel)
Brahms: Symphonies 1 - 4
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Je n'aime décidément pas le classique, mais ça j'aime bien!
Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 4
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Classic FM Music for Driving
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Tchaikovsky/Stravinsky
Beethoven: The 9 Symphonies
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 / Schubert: Symphony No. 8
Brahms: The 4 Symphonies
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Ich mag keine Klassik, aber das gefällt mir! Vol. 3