CLASSIC AL A UDI O GÜNTER WAND EDITION PH16060 | 881488160604 8 CD | SRP: US $29.99 CA $35.99 COMPOSER: Ludwig van Beethoven • Johannes Brahms • Anton Bruckner • Franz Schubert ARTIST: Munich Ohilharminic Orchestra • Guenter Wand (conductor) TRACK LIST: Disc 1 Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in C Minor (movements I, II, III) Disc 2 Anton Bruckner Symphony no. 8 in C Minor (movement IV) Franz Schubert Symphony No. 8 in B Minor, D. 759 disc 3 Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major Disc 4 Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D. 944 Disc 5 Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major Disc 6 Johannes Brahms Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, Op. 68 Ludwig van Beethoven Symphony No. 1 in C Major, Op. 21 Disc 7 Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6 in A Major Disc 8 Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 9 in D Minor • The Munich Philharmonic was one of two orchestra - the other being the Berlin Philharmonic - which Gunter Wand regularly conducted, though not bound by contract, until shortly before his death. • The Abendzeitung characterized him then as an “avantgardist of modern music”, though he was “not a hothead” but more “a professor of philosophy than of music - clever, nervous, sensitive” and had remained “modestly reserved in spite of his international successes all over the continent”. • The orchestra and the Munich audience were loyal to him over four and a half decades, and even in his last years, when he was nearing the age of ninety and travelling had become a great strain for him, he repeatedly returned to conduct in Munich. At his final concert in the city in the autumn of 2001, he conducted Schubert’s Fifth and Bruckner’s Fourth before an audience that was both filled with enthusiasm and deeply moved. DISTRIBUTED BY RELEASE DATE: 10/14/16 NAXOS OF AMERICA | NAXOS OF CANADA | NEW RELEASE 94