My collection of Günter Wand's audio and video recordings is part of my treasured memories of the great Maestro. Another part, which may be more important, lies permanently in my heart and soul, of the experiences of his live concerts.
I didn't post the picture of the CDs issued by Bell's of St Florian for prudent reasons as these are pirate CDs.
Of note is the cover art of the BPO B5 CD which belongs to the original release, and which is quite different from those of the rest of the series, even when the latter were first issued. RCA/BMG later changed the cover art many times in their "re-issues". Only the Japanese BMG issued the SACD versions of these Berlin Philharmonic recordings, which is shown above in the right upper corner of the relevant picture.
The double CD on the lower part of the "NDR years" picture is the Japanese BMG incarnation (BVCC 8889-8890) of the live recordings of B8 (1987) and B9 (1988) at the Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival made in the Lubecker Dom well-known of its "wonderfully" reverberant acoustics. This was issued way back in 1995 in Japan.
I didn't post the picture of the CDs issued by Bell's of St Florian for prudent reasons as these are pirate CDs.
Of note is the cover art of the BPO B5 CD which belongs to the original release, and which is quite different from those of the rest of the series, even when the latter were first issued. RCA/BMG later changed the cover art many times in their "re-issues". Only the Japanese BMG issued the SACD versions of these Berlin Philharmonic recordings, which is shown above in the right upper corner of the relevant picture.
The double CD on the lower part of the "NDR years" picture is the Japanese BMG incarnation (BVCC 8889-8890) of the live recordings of B8 (1987) and B9 (1988) at the Schleswig-Holstein-Musikfestival made in the Lubecker Dom well-known of its "wonderfully" reverberant acoustics. This was issued way back in 1995 in Japan.
This thread might interest you, Horace. The big new Gunter Wand DSO box from Profil was reviewed for an hour last Saturday on the UK's BBC Radio 3 programme CD Review.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbradio3/F6643901?thread=7204405
Kindest regards
Richard
Dear Richard,
ReplyDeleteThat's very kind of you for letting me know. I'll definitely go and listen to it. So far I've only listened to 3 CDs in the DSO box, but all of them gave me much satisfaction.
Thank you for visiting.
Best regards,
Horace