Biography
Berliner Festspielorchester
Effective period / Period of releases: 1987 - 1990
Fictitious orchestra, used by fraudster Alfred Scholz.Often credited as Berlin Festival Orchestra with conductor Vladimir Petroschoff.
The practice of bogus orchestras using established names is more likely to occur on fly-by-night labels, where the conductor is a relative unknown. Established labels employing musicians on a session-by-session basis, rather than giving a false credit, would generally invent an orchestra name which sounds respectable and established, but does not really exist.