Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder)

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1840–1842, the Stadttheater in Frankfurt ad O. was built at Wilhelmsplatz 22 according to Schinkel's design by Emil Flaminius and opened on November 1, 1842 with Lortzing's Zar and Zimmermann (destroyed in 1945).
Concert hall Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Frankfurt (Oder)

The Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt , BSOF for short , is an internationally recognized symphony orchestra based in Frankfurt (Oder) .

history

The orchestra was founded in 1842, its first public appearance was the opening of the Frankfurt City Theater, newly built by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, with Albert Lortzing's Zar und Zimmermann . The Philharmonic Society was founded in 1871. He organized three concerts a year as well as the choral symphonic concerts of the Singakademie . In 1895 the association dissolved.

The city ​​theater was destroyed in the Second World War . The theater ensemble, which again included an orchestra, resumed theater in 1946 in the Musiklandheim built by Otto Bartning in 1928/29, which was named Kleist Theater in 1952 .

The Philharmonic Orchestra Frankfurt (Oder) emerged in 1971 from the orchestra of the Kleist Theater and the Frankfurt Cultural Orchestra, founded in 1953 . In 1973 the orchestra took part in the Choriner Music Summer for the first time and has since been one of the regular ensembles of the traditional series of events.

After the end of the GDR, the Greek conductor Nikos Athineos took over the management of the orchestra and since 1991 the orchestra has been run as an A-orchestra within the framework of the tariff system for cultural orchestras. First appearances in the Berlin Philharmonic followed. There was also cooperation with the Poznan State Philharmonic . In 1993 the orchestra was separated from the Kleist Theater and became an independent institution of the City of Frankfurt.

Since 1994 the orchestra has officially performed the role of musical ambassador for the state of Brandenburg with its performances as the musical presentation of the State of Brandenburg in the Kunsthalle in Bonn . On April 7, 1995, the orchestra was named the Frankfurt State Orchestra . When Heribert Beissel took office as chief conductor, it was renamed the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt in 2001 .

Guest performances have taken the orchestra to major concert halls in Germany and tours to Bulgaria , Poland , Lithuania , Israel , Russia , Spain , France , the Netherlands , Belgium , Italy and Japan .

The orchestra was particularly honored with a concert in the papal audience hall in the Vatican on December 10, 2008, on the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . At this concert, the Spanish conductor Inma Shara was the first time a woman stood before a Pope at the conductor's desk. The orchestra has been accompanying the annual children's opera during the Bayreuth Festival since summer 2010 . In addition to numerous CD recordings, the Brandenburg State Orchestra has also recorded several film scores and is a member of the European Film Philharmonic .

In addition to the concert series in Frankfurt (Oder) - Philharmonic concerts, Viennese Classic - the State Orchestra in the era under GMD Howard Griffiths devoted itself intensively to the field of musical and cultural education. With children and young people from Frankfurt (Oder) and the neighboring districts as well as from the Polish neighborhood, especially from Słubice , a total of nine educational projects were realized and performed between 2009 and 2018, initially the cantata Love, Home, Death? by Artist in Residence Helmut Oehring in collaboration with the Akademie der Künste (Berlin) (world premiere in 2009), Benjamin Britten's children 's opera Noahs Flut (2010) and Hans Krása's children's opera Brundibár (2011). In order to do justice to the history of the reception of Brundibár , which was shaped by the Theresienstadt concentration camp , the director Bente Kahan formed a new German-Polish children's choir and studied a Yiddish song program with it , which was performed with me as an overture under the title Sing Yiddish . Further educational projects followed Carmina Burana by Carl Orff (2013), The Planets by Gustav Holst (2014), the musical fairy tale Die Orchestermäuse by Howard Griffiths and Fabian Künzli (2015), as well as the percussion and dance project Rituale (2016), the dance project Pictures at an exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky (2017) and, as a conclusion, the text and dance project Great feelings (2018) based on William Shakespeare and Sergei Prokofiev . All nine educational projects were realized with financial help from the Sparkasse Oder-Spree; the main sponsors were the PwC Foundation (projects 1–3) and the Swiss Drosos Foundation (projects 4–9).

Since September 1, 2018, the management of the Brandenburg State Orchestra Frankfurt has consisted of the artistic director Roland Ott and the chief conductor and general music director Jörg-Peter Weigle .

musical direction

Recordings

The orchestra's discography shows numerous CD productions, some of which have won awards, from the German labels Signum, cpo and Naxos . The CD with works by Boris Blacher was awarded the Diapason d'or in 1994, and the production by Franz Schreker in Berlin , produced in 2000 by the Berlin pianist Horst Göbel , received the Choc musique from Le monde de la musique .

The Brandenburg State Orchestra has also recorded music for computer games, including Anno 1701 and The Witcher 3 . In addition, Andreas Waldetoft recorded pieces of music from the computer games Europa Universalis IV (in the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach concert hall) and Stellaris with the orchestra .

Others

At the beginning of a new season there is the traditional interactive orchestra . Anyone who plays an instrument can sit down with an orchestra member and play with the Brandenburg State Orchestra.

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b educational projects on: bsof.de