Radio Recordings

The aim of the posthumous Wand Edition is to use these studio recordings and broadcast concerts to explore aspects of his musical achievement not represented on the commercial recordings that were released during his lifetime. The best of the recordings in the various broadcasting archives, subjected to the most advanced digital techniques, may give the listener an idea of the extraordinary wide range of repertoire commanded by this great conductor. This collection presents US with previously unpublished sacred works by Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, including a number of great masses and the serenade music that Wand so loved. Then there is the French repertoire of the 19th and early 20th century, as essential to the posthumous edition as the contemporary music that meant so much to Gunter Wand - compositions by Tadeusz Baird, Wolfgang Fortner, Gyorgy Ligeti, Olivier Messiaen, Carl Orff, Igor Stravinsky, Anton Webern and Bernd Alois Zimmermann.