Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra

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Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Copenhagen Concert Hall (2009)

The Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (known as: Danish National Orchestra ; Danish : DR SymfoniOrkestret ( DRSO ); English : Danish National Symphony Orchestra ( DNSO )) is one of Denmark's largest orchestras with over 100 professional musicians . It was founded in Copenhagen in 1925 and is one of the oldest radio orchestras in the world. The DNSO is the main orchestra of Danmarks Radio (DR) and has resided in the Copenhagen Concert Hall since 2009 . Fabio Luisi has been chief conductor since 2017 .

history

In addition to the radio orchestra, only the Royal Orchestra associated with the opera and a few regional orchestras are active in Denmark . The origins of the orchestra go back to an initiative of the chamber singer and radio founder Emil Holm , who set up an 11-person ensemble in 1925. Without having held an official position, Launy Grøndahl initially took on the direction of the orchestra. In 1926 the Danish radio took over the orchestra. The DNSO gave its first public concert in 1927, and weekly concerts followed in 1928.

With Nikolai Malko the time began more often guest conductors; In 1965 the Nikolai Malko competition was established in Copenhagen . The orchestra was initially able to use the Axelborg building until the Royal Danish Theater made its new stage available to Stærekassen in 1931 . Meanwhile grown to over sixty musicians, the orchestra was expanded in 1932 to include a radio choir. During his exile during the Nazi era , Fritz Busch performed repeatedly with the DNSO. After the Second World War, the then director, Erik Tuxen , made the orchestra known beyond national borders at the Edinburgh Festival in 1950. In 1945 the orchestra gave its first concert at the Radiohuset in Frederiksberg. Composers such as Pierre Boulez , Witold Lutosławski and Krzysztof Penderecki conducted the radio orchestra in Copenhagen.

The first chief conductor of the Danish Radio Orchestra was Herbert Blomstedt , who took office in 1967 and shaped the profile of the orchestra. In addition to Juri Aronowitsch , u. a. Péter Eötvös , Karlheinz Stockhausen , Oliver Knussen , Michel Tabachnik and Jan Latham-Koenig guest conductors. The orchestra under Hans Graf took over the accompaniment for the Eurovision Young Musicians competition in Copenhagen in 1986 . After nine years of vacancy , Lamberto Gardelli became chief conductor. With the orchestra he visited the United Kingdom. It was a guest in the USA under Sixten Ehrling . The orchestra tours regularly through Scandinavia . Thomas Dausgaard , who was principal guest conductor from 2001 to 2004, was the first Danish chief conductor from 2004 to 2011. During his tenure, he moved (2009) to the Copenhagen Concert Hall designed by French architect Jean Nouvel , which is part of the DR Byen complex . He also took the orchestra on tours abroad to South Korea and China. In 2010 Søren Nils Eichberg became the first composer in residence .

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos resigned as chief conductor shortly before his death in 2014, whereupon Fabio Luisi was appointed as his successor. He took office in 2017; In 2018, it was decided to extend the contract until 2023.

The orchestra traditionally sees its focus on the performance of contemporary music , especially by Danish composers . The orchestra received commissions or was responsible for premieres and a. by Niels Viggo Bentzon , Peter Maxwell Davies , Pelle Gudmundsen-Holmgreen , Axel Jørgensen , Rued Langgaard and Erik Norby .

Bloomstedt submitted some recordings u. a. with works by Carl Nielsen , with whom the orchestra has long felt connected. The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings recommends u. a. the recordings of the 1st (under Leif Segerstam ) and 6th symphonies (under Thomas Dausgaard) by Per Nørgårds . The orchestra also produced complete opera recordings: Schirmer took over the recording of Nielsen's Masquerade in 1996 . Hameriks Marie Grubbe was recorded with Martellius Lundqvist in 1959 . In 2001 a live recording of Puccini's Turandot was made with Giuseppe Sinopoli . Dausgaard played with the orchestra Langgaards Antichrist (2002) and Ennas Das Mädchen mit den Schwefelhölzern (2005). Under de Burgos a DVD complete recording was of Beethoven - Symphonies .

In 1985 the orchestra received the Gramophone Classical Music Award (Historic (Non-Vocal)) for its recording of Nielsen's symphonies . At the Grammy Awards 2008 , the CD Amargós : Northern Concert (conductor: Lan Shui ) was nominated in the category “Best Classical Contemporary Composition”.

Conductors

Permanent conductors:

Frequent guest conductors:

Chief Conductor :

literature

  • Robert R. Craven: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra . In the S. (Ed.): Symphony Orchestras of the World: Selected Profiles . Greenwood Press, New York et al. a. 1987, ISBN 0-313-24073-6 , pp. 78-80.
  • Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 958.

Web links

Commons : Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Orkester spiller på alle platforme , drkoncerthuset.dk, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  2. ^ A b c d e Robert R. Craven: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra . In the S. (Ed.): Symphony Orchestras of the World: Selected Profiles . Greenwood Press, New York et al. a. 1987, ISBN 0-313-24073-6 , pp. 78-80, here: p. 78.
  3. ^ A b c Emily Freeman Brown: A Dictionary for the Modern Conductor . Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham 2015, ISBN 978-0-8108-8400-7 , p. 88.
  4. ^ Joseph E. Potts: European Radio Orchestras-II . In: The Musical Times 96 (1955) 1352, pp. 525-527, here: p. 525.
  5. ^ A b c d e Robert R. Craven: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra . In the S. (Ed.): Symphony Orchestras of the World: Selected Profiles . Greenwood Press, New York et al. a. 1987, ISBN 0-313-24073-6 , pp. 78-80, here: p. 79.
  6. ↑ a b c d e f DR SymfoniOrkestrets historie , drkoncerthuset.dk, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Italiensk verdensdirigent , drkoncerthuset.dk, accessed on September 11, 2018.
  8. ^ Alain Pâris: Classical music in the 20th century: instrumentalists, singers, conductors, orchestras, choirs . 2nd expanded, completely revised edition, dtv, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-423-32501-1 , p. 958.
  9. ^ Edward Greenfield, Ivan March, Paul Czajkowski, Robert Layton: The Penguin Guide to the 1000 Finest Classical Recordings. The must-have CDs and DVDs . Revised edition, Penguin Books, London 2012, ISBN 978-0-141-39975-1 , pp. 323 f.
  10. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 317.
  11. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 186.
  12. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 377.
  13. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 643.
  14. ^ Karsten Steiger: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . 2nd, fully updated and expanded edition, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 , p. 146.
  15. ^ A b Robert R. Craven: Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra . In the S. (Ed.): Symphony Orchestras of the World: Selected Profiles . Greenwood Press, New York et al. a. 1987, ISBN 0-313-24073-6 , pp. 78-80, here: p. 80.