MDR symphony orchestra

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The MDR Symphony Orchestra (formerly the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra (LSO) and the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO)) is one of the world's oldest radio orchestras and at the same time the oldest of the twelve orchestras of the ARD . It was founded in Leipzig on January 6, 1923, without radio participation .

Apart from the silent period in the Second World War , it is since 1924 the greatest orchestras and permanent representative of the Central German Radio and the station Leipzig the broadcast of the GDR . 120 professional musicians are currently employed; so it is an A-orchestra . The orchestra gives more than 100 concerts in Germany and abroad every year. There is a close cooperation with the MDR radio choir . It organizes series of concerts in the Leipzig Gewandhaus and other venues in Saxony , Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia . The MDR music summer , which has existed since 1992, has become a fixture. The symphony orchestra has received several recognized music awards such as the Grand Prix du Disque , ECHO Klassik and the German Record Critics' Prize for its recordings .

It has distinguished itself as an important performance organ for new music , including Udo Zimmermann's L'homme in 1972 and Krzysztof Penderecki's 2nd violin concerto "Metamorphoses" in 1995 . In addition, from 1970 to 1993 it was the musical home of the chamber music ensemble Gruppe Neue Musik Hanns Eisler . The orchestra is dedicated to continue and the contemporary film music , so it did, for example, Tykwer - soundtrack to the award-winning literary adaptations Cloud Atlas (2011/12) A hologram of the King (2016) and Babylon Berlin one (2016/17).

The symphony orchestra is one of the few orchestras that was allowed to play before the Pope in the Vatican. In 2011 it took part in the International Mahler Festival in Leipzig together with the world's leading Mahler interpreters .

The chief conductors included Carl Schuricht (1931–1933), Hermann Abendroth (1949–1956), Herbert Kegel (1960–1978, honorary conductor) and Fabio Luisi (1996–2007). Kristjan Järvi was chief conductor from 2012 until the end of the 2017/18 season . Dennis Russell Davies is the designated chief conductor from the 2020/21 season .

MDR cube on Augustusplatz

history

Prehistory and foundation

At the end of the 19th century, the music city of Leipzig housed smaller ensembles such as the Winderstein Orchestra under Hans Winderstein and the Willy Wolf Orchestra under Willy Wolf . The aforementioned and the already famous Gewandhaus orchestra could not, however, cover the entire cultural needs of the city. However, proposals to found a municipal philharmonic were not followed up for economic reasons. Individual orchestras founded, etc. a. the Philharmonic Orchestra under Hans L'Hermet and the Grotrian -Orchester under Hermann Scherchen , experienced moderate success and failed finally in the time of the Weimar Republic . Various guest orchestras did not want to win the favor of the citizens of Leipzig either. Nevertheless, until the end of the First World War, the established Thomaskantors (artistic directors of the St. Thomas' Choir ) and Gewandhaus Kapellmeister were still reluctant to send letters of protest against the impending competition.

Finally, on January 6, 1923, the Leipziger Orchester-Gesellschaft mbH was founded. With the support of well-known companies such as Julius Blüthner Pianofortefabrik , Feurich piano and grand piano production , Irmler Piano , Breitkopf & Härtel and Konzertdirektion Schubert , forty-four musicians called the Leipzig Symphony Orchestra (LSO) into life. The existing orchestra of the Konzertverein (founded in 1915), to which the actual origins of today's orchestra extend, has been integrated into the new structures. The decisive factor in founding the symphony orchestra was the pragmatism of those responsible and the affection of the citizens for their own city. The organizational and cost outlay for the engagement of honorary orchestras like the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra became too great.

The guest conductor Emil Bohnke had its first performances in the 1920s at the Leipzig Opera , which was previously dominated by the Gewandhaus Orchestra. However, the aftermath of the German inflation from 1914 to 1923 presented the GmbH with considerable financial challenges. The first chief conductor, Alfred Szendrei , characterized as headstrong and almost autocratic, wrote a six-point plan to save the orchestra from a quick end.

Radio orchestra

MIRAG
Old trading exchange

With the establishment of the first broadcasters in Europe, the situation improved steadily. Leipzig became the location of the Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG) in January 1924 . The Leipzig Symphony Orchestra received the Alte Handelsbörse as a permanent office. On October 17th, MIRAG finally joined the orchestra company in order to regularly pay the orchestra musicians for the first time.

The first musical radio program, including with the violinist Walther Davisson , was broadcast on November 23rd. Symphonic light music found its way into the Leipzig radio from 1924. In 1925, Mozart's Magic Flute was the first opera to be broadcast. A year later Leipzig music was in the program of the Germany transmitter adopted. The great interest in the LSO led to the musicians being involved all year round. They performed regularly in the Alberthalle of the Krystallpalast and in the Central Theater . The conductors Hermann Scherchen , Heinrich Laber , Max Ludwig and Günther Ramin stood by Szendrei's side.

From 1928 to 1929 the LSO was the primary German orchestra which, as an innovation, held concerts without a conductor. The incumbent chief conductor Szendrei promoted contemporary works. Several world premieres (including commissioned compositions) have been recorded. Well-known musical greats performed with the orchestra, for example Yehudi Menuhin appeared as violinist in 1930 and Paul Hindemith as violist in 1931. The composer Arnold Schönberg appeared in person in 1929 for his work Gurre-Lieder in the Alberthalle. In the same year Richard Strauss was a guest conductor at the LSO, and from 1931 the orchestra performed in the New Gewandhaus . The musician Fred Malige later paid tribute to Szendrei in his orchestral biography. He attested to his agility and vision.

MIRAG and its symphony orchestra were also not spared from purges before and during the National Socialist era . Szendrei was denounced by right-wing extremists and mocked in the party press. He was given leave of absence from the board in November 1931.

Interim management

New Gewandhaus

Between the later Thomaskantor Günther Ramin and the general music director of the city of Wiesbaden Carl Schuricht a fight for the successor developed. Schuricht was able to prevail in the end. Programmatically, Neue Musik continued to enjoy funding from the station. For example, Franz Schreker's cantata Vom Ewigen Leben was premiered. Before the Nazis came to power, Kurt Weill's opera Der Silbersee was performed for the first time by the LSO. After a concert in 1931, the music critic Heinrich Werlé praised the conductor Schuricht and his orchestra in the Neue Leipziger Zeitung as a “first-rate cultural factor”.

Music under National Socialism

Hans Weisbach , a national conservative and after the musicologists Jörg Clemen and Steffen Lieberwirth a "second row conductor", finally replaced the interim conductor in 1934. However, conservative ideological rethinking began as early as 1929 when the number of radio listeners steadily increased. The new program director, Ludwig Neubeck , called for the orchestra to be closer to the people, which was later expressed in the orchestra's preference for Richard Wagner from Leipzig .

The Leipzig Radio Orchestra played in front of Chancellor Adolf Hitler for the laying of the foundation stone for the Richard Wagner National Monument of the German People in 1934 . The symphony orchestra turned more and more to German composers. In 1935, Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen was broadcast on several radio stations in Europe. Weisbach, himself a sought-after interpreter of Johann Sebastian Bach's music , organized special concerts on the occasion of the Reichs Bach Celebration in Leipzig in 1935 . The radio controlled by the Reich Ministry for Public Enlightenment and Propaganda was instrumentalized in terms of cultural policy. The venues were expanded to include the Rudolph Sack agricultural machinery factory , Leipzig Central Station and the Reichsbahn repair shop in Leipzig-Engelsdorf . In addition, the leisure-oriented Leipzig Music Days , organized by the National Socialist Cultural Community and Kraft durch Freude , were brought into being in 1937 with the participation of the orchestra .

With the arrival of Reinhold Merten as artistic director, the interim end of the orchestra was initiated. The last concert for the time being took place in March 1941 in the Gewandhaus. From 1943 on, particularly talented musicians were assigned to the Linz Reichs-Bruckner-Orchester in the St. Florian Monastery. During the air raids on Leipzig , most of the scores and instruments of the symphony orchestra were destroyed.

New beginnings

Congress hall at the zoo

Only twelve former members met artistically in 1945 under Heinrich Schachtebeck , who was also the rector of the University of Music and Theater "Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy" Leipzig , and his first conductor Fritz Schröder . The symphony orchestra received its previous name LSO and gave its first performances after the Second World War in the Capitol film theater in Leipzig. In 1946, the newly founded Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk (MDR) became the new owner of what was now the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (also called RSO Leipzig ).

With the organizational changes, Gerhart Wiesenhütter , who was first chief conductor of the Dresden Philharmonic, was in charge from 1946 to 1948. In 1947 the broadcasting hall of the Leipziger Funkhaus was occupied and from then on the congress hall at the zoo could be used as an event building. It was thanks to Wiesenhütter that the RSO once again became a first-class orchestra. Despite his musical success, he was expelled from the leadership position after disputes with the SED . He always tried to maintain the orchestra's political independence, which contradicted the party's unity. The Leipzig broadcaster intrigued against him with a letter in which Wiesenhütter distanced himself from the East German system. He was expelled from the party while conducting the West Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra .

GDR time

In 1949 the former Gewandhaus music director Hermann Abendroth became chief conductor. At the same time he directed the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and was considered a stroke of luck for the music city of Leipzig. At first they did not want to hire him because he was previously a member of the NSDAP and did not intend to join the SED. However, his experience was essential. Under his direction, the orchestra made its first guest appearance abroad in 1957, in what was then Czechoslovakia . In addition to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union , France , Italy and Japan were also visited. Well-known guest conductors such as Franz Konwitschny , Kurt Masur and Václav Neumann came to the RSO.

Herbert Kegel became chief conductor in 1953. His main focus was on the interpretation of contemporary music. The joint composition Jüdische Chronik by the composers Dessau, Hartmann , Henze and Régeny had a double premiere on January 14, 1966 in Cologne ( Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra under Christoph von Dohnányi ) and February 15, 1966 in Leipzig (Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra Herbert Kegel). The performance was planned five years earlier, but was postponed due to the political situation. Composers such as Edisson Denissow , Fritz Geißler , Kurt Schwaen and Paul Dessau participated in performances of their pieces. In particular, Friedrich Schenker coined the sound of the orchestra sustainable. Major guest conductors were Hans Werner Henze , Cristóbal Halffter and Witold Lutosławski . In 1973 Boris Blacher took part in his First Piano Concerto and in 1977 Krzysztof Penderecki personally participated in the performance of his First Symphony . During Kegel's years of service, the Gewandhaus orchestra and the radio symphony orchestra, which had different programs, were of at least the same qualitative level. Along with the orchestra of the Gewandhaus, the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden and the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin, it was considered the leading orchestra in the GDR. The sound body was u. a. awarded the Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold (1974) and the City of Leipzig Art Prize (1984). The music magazine Musik und Gesellschaft formulated the advantages of the Leipzig radio recordings with “radio-compatible recording quality” and characterized the musicians of the orchestra as “independent and unmistakable musicians”.

Gewandhaus in Leipzig

From 1978 Wolf-Dieter Hauschild , who was previously deputy chief conductor, led the symphony orchestra. Just three years later, the RSO gave rights concerts in the New Gewandhaus. After a guest concert in West Germany in 1985, Hauschild did not return to the GDR. After a brief vacancy, Max Pommer became chief conductor in 1987. He continued traditional performances under the motto Mozartiana and promoted the new music group Hanns Eisler (founded by Friedrich Schenker and Burkhard Glaetzner ) , which consists of eight orchestral musicians . It soon developed into one of the most renowned chamber music ensembles in Europe. The artistic demarcation from socialist realism was not always easy, because their work was judged by conservative cultural officials as "late bourgeois dust". Nevertheless, and especially because of their commitment to the East German avant-garde , the musicians were privileged and toured abroad. After the fall of the Berlin Wall they received the renowned Schneider Schott Music Prize in Mainz .

reunion

After German reunification , the RSO merged with the Radio Philharmonic to form today's MDR Symphony Orchestra . Several rights concerts in Berlin, Dresden and Munich were acquired. In 1992, the RSO conducted by Daniel Nazareth , the European cantata by Ennio Morricone in Germany for the first time on. He initiated the music festival MDR-Musiksommer , which became a fixture in Central Germany. In 1995 the soloist Anne-Sophie Mutter took part. But Nazareth came under increasing criticism and it was claimed that he could not continue the “tradition of solid and inspired collaboration” between orchestra and conductor. He was also accused of having insufficiently served the international reputation of the symphony orchestra by neglecting CD recordings.

From 1996 the three conductors Marcello Viotti , Manfred Honeck and Fabio Luisi took over the direction of the orchestra, with Luisi later becoming the sole chief conductor. Viotti mainly devoted himself to the classical Italian and French repertoire and Honeck conducted the German Romantics. Luisi, on the other hand, devoted himself to modern and contemporary composers. He brought u. a. Wolfgang Rihm's Penthesilea and Jean-Luc Darbellay's Requiem for the premiere. Well-known guest conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt , Günther Herbig , Marek Janowski and Heinz Rögner rounded off the seasons. In 2001, the MDR cube designed by the Dresden architect Peter Kulka was completed, which serves as a rehearsal room for the orchestra. Together with the MDR radio choir , the orchestra gave the official gala concert under Howard Arman in 2003 at the celebrations for the 25th anniversary of Pope John Paul II in the Vatican . In 2008, Fabio Luisi described in his autobiography Half Way Half his conducting station with the MDR Symphony Orchestra as the “most attractive task” in retrospect. He particularly emphasized the willingness and efficiency of the musicians as well as the diverse workable repertoire of the orchestra.

present

In 2007 Jun Märkl became the orchestra's chief conductor. In February 2007, the music editor Meret Forster warned in an interview that the orchestra was not turning towards new music. Under Märkl, the MDR Symphony Orchestra gave the memorial concert for the fall of the Berlin Wall in front of Chancellor Angela Merkel in the Paul Löbe House in Berlin in 2008 . Two years later it was the first orchestra to play in the Königsberg Cathedral after the reconstruction . Guest conductors such as Carl St. Clair and Michael Sanderling took over the direction of the orchestra. In series one of the 2010/11 season they covered the musical diversity of four continents.

International Mahler Festival

Together with the Gewandhausorchester, Concertgebouw-Orchester , London Symphony Orchestra , Mahler Chamber Orchestra , the New Yorker Philharmoniker , the Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden , the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks , Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Wiener Philharmoniker it was an orchestral partner on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of death by Gustav Mahler at the International Mahler Festival 2011 in Leipzig.

The MDR symphony orchestra currently employs 120 musicians who give over 100 concerts in Germany and abroad every year. The symphony orchestra has been the godfather of the Leipzig University Orchestra since 2004 . It assists with instruments and samples. It is also a partner of the Conductor Forum of the German Music Council and the newly launched IMPULS Festival for New Music in Saxony-Anhalt. The orchestra supports the CLARA school music network project, which has been awarded by the German Music Council .

Märkl's successor was the US-American of Estonian origin Kristjan Järvi from the 2012/13 season . In a press conference, Järvi announced that he wanted to modernize the orchestra and promote youth work. With 100 commissioned compositions to date, he is an advocate of moderate contemporary music that is more broadly oriented.

Following this trend, the ensemble hired a composer in residence for the first time , the Chinese Oscar winner Tan Dun , who so far has mainly attracted attention for his film music. In the 2013/14 season he was first followed by Steve Reich and in 2014/15 Arvo Pärt . Dobrinka Tabakova was composer in residence in 2017/18.

In 2013 the symphony orchestra and MDR Figaro announced the Wagner composition competition WonneWagnisWiderstand ; the awards went to Jinhyung Chung (1st Prize), Rafael Soto (2nd Prize) and Manuel Durão (3rd Prize).

Järvi ended his engagement as chief conductor in summer 2018.

In autumn 2019, the MDR Symphony Orchestra was invited to a two-week tour to Japan.

For the 2020/21 season, Dennis Russell Davies will take over the post of chief conductor at the MDR Symphony Orchestra for four years.

Conductors

Fabio Luisi, chief conductor until 2007

Chief conductor

The orchestra was headed by the following conductors , including its later honorary conductor Herbert Kegel:

In 1941 the Leipzig transmitter was shut down due to the war.

Guest Conductor

Renowned conductors have repeatedly stood at the podium of the orchestra, in recent years they have included Neeme Järvi , Dennis Russell Davies , Roger Norrington , Ádám Fischer , Krzysztof Urbański , Stefan Asbury, James Gaffigan , Markus Stenz , Alain Altinoglu , Roberto Abbado , Santtu- Matias Rouvali , Kazuki Yamada , Michail Jurowski , Jan Willem de Vriend, Ludovic Morlot , but also conductors of the younger generation such as Ariane Matiakh , Duncan Ward, Nicholas Carter and Klaus Mäkelä.

MDR chamber music ensembles

The MDR leads chamber music ensembles whose members come from the ranks of the orchestra:

Former ensembles are:

circle of friends

The friends of the MDR Sinfonieorchester e. V. serve to maintain and promote the orchestra. The non-profit association visits rehearsals, holds talks with artists, discusses with composers and offers its members discounted purchase of CDs. The chairman of the board is Thomas Wünsch. The advisory board of trustees includes Rolf-Dieter Arens , Jean-Luc Darbellay , Burkhard Glaetzner , Ludwig Güttler , Hartmut Haenchen , Siegfried Matthus , Armin Mueller-Stahl , Günther Neubert , Peter Rösel , Hans-Joachim Rotzsch , Peter Ruzicka , Friedrich Schenker, Karl Ottomar Treibmann and Udo Zimmermann.

World premieres (selection)

The symphony orchestra has been closely associated with new music since it was founded. It premiered numerous works by national and international composers. In this discipline, it takes the leading place in Germany together with the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg . The following world premieres (selection) were recorded:

Cast list for the world premiere Requiem (2005) by Jean-Luc Darbellay at the Leipzig Gewandhaus
  • Franz Schreker : "Vom Ewigen Leben" for soprano and orchestra based on poems by Walt Whitman (April 15, 1929)
  • Fritz Reuter : Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (May 1929)
  • Fritz Reuter: “Hutten's Last Days” cantata for baritone solo and orchestra (Text: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer ) (November 3, 1930)
  • Kurt Weill : " Der Silbersee " (Text: Georg Kaiser ) (February 18, 1933)
  • Heinrich Zöllner : Patriotic People's Overture (May 29, 1935)
  • Hermann Ambrosius : 8th Symphony (May 10, 1937)
  • Theodor Blumer : Symphony (May 13, 1937)
  • Karl Thieme : Festive Music (May 13, 1937)
  • Edmund von Borck : Orphika for Orchestra op.21 (November 21, 1948)
  • Fritz Geißler : Chamber Symphony (October 18, 1955)
  • Rudolf Wagner-Régeny : "Genesis" for alto solo, mixed choir and orchestra (November 27, 1956)
  • Kurt Schwaen : "Our Wealth - Our Life" Cantata (Text: Heinz Rusch ) (June 4, 1960)
  • Alan Bush : Symphony No. 3 (“Byron Symphony”) op. 53 with final movement for baritone solo and choir on the “Ode to the death of Lord Byron” by Dionysios Solomos (March 20, 1962)
  • Günter Kochan : Symphony for large orchestra with choir based on words by Paul Wiens (November 13, 1963)
  • Max Butting : Symphony No. 10 Op. 108 (October 8, 1963)
  • Paul Dessau : Requiem for Lumumba (Text: Karl Mickel ) (October 27, 1964)
  • Paul Dessau: German Miserere for four solo voices, choir, children's choir and orchestra (Text: Bertolt Brecht ) (September 20, 1966)
  • Wilhelm Neef : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (September 19, 1971)
  • Udo Zimmermann: "L'homme" Mediations for Orchestra (October 10, 1972)
  • Edison Denissow : Concerto for Violoncello and Orchestra (September 25, 1973)
  • Gerhard Rosenfeld : Three Cheerful Intermezzi (September 29, 1974)
  • Friedrich Schenker: Electrization for Jazz Group and Large Orchestra (September 2, 1975)
  • Siegfried Thiele : Jeux pour harpe et orchester (October 13, 1975)
  • Reiner Bredemeyer : "begin - stop" (February 14, 1978)
  • Edison Denissow: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (September 5, 1978)
  • Georg Katzer : Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (September 2, 1980)
  • Friedrich Schenker: "Fanal Spanien 1936" ballad for large orchestra (December 15, 1981)
  • Luca Lombardi : Second Symphony (March 1, 1983)
  • Wilfried Krätzschmar : "Heine Scenes" for baritone, mixed choir and choir groups, string quartet and harp, piano and percussion, organ and large orchestra (Text: Heinrich Heine) (May 31, 1983)
  • Thomas Heyn : "Kick-off" scene for large orchestra (September 19, 1983)
  • Friedrich Goldmann : Symphony No. 3 (February 17, 1987)
  • Karl Ottomar Treibmann : Symphony No. 4 (June 20, 1989)
  • Günter Neubert : Metamorphoses on the chorale "Sun of Justice" (May 6, 1990)
  • Theo Brandmüller : Concerto for Organ and Orchestra (April 30, 1991)
  • Paul-Heinz Dittrich / Sofia Gubaidulina / Marek Kopelent : Laudatio Pacis (September 3, 1993)
  • Krzysztof Penderecki : Concerto per violino ed orchestra No. 2 (June 24 1995)
  • Karlheinz Stockhausen : "Friday" from the opera cycle " Light " (September 12, 1996)
  • Carlos Veerhoff : Desiderta op.70 for orchestra, choir, three soloists and a speaker (April 30, 1997)
  • Milko Kelemen : Salut au monde for four soloists, speaker, two choirs and large orchestra (Text: Walt Whitman) (April 19, 1999)
  • Friedrich Schenker: Goldberg Passion for solos, choir and orchestra (Text: Karl Mickel) (November 9, 1999)
  • Christfried Schmidt : "Memento" for orchestra (October 27, 2002)
  • Bernd Franke : "Open doors" for bandoneon and orchestra (January 21, 2003)
  • Wolfgang Rihm : Penthesilea monologue for dramatic soprano and orchestra (August 20, 2005)
  • Jean-Luc Darbellay : Requiem for solos, choir and orchestra (November 20, 2005)
  • Michael Obst : "espaces sonores" for wind quintet and orchestra (January 17, 2006)
  • Fabrice Bollon : "Viderunt omnes" for DJ and orchestra (November 3, 2009)
  • Thomas Buchholz : "Young Person's Guide to New Music" (October 29, 2010)
  • Alfons Karl Zwicker : "Death and the Maiden" Opera in seven pictures (December 4th 2010)
  • Peter Ruzicka : "Über Unstern" for orchestra (November 5, 2011)
  • Pyarelal Ramprasad Sharma : "Om Shivam" Symphony No. 1 (November 17, 2012)
  • Tan Dun : Fourth part "We are resurrected" of the "Martial Arts Trilogy" (May 4, 2013)
  • Peter Ruzicka: "Spiral" for horn quartet and orchestra (August 15, 2014)
  • Gabriela Montero : "Latin Concerto" for piano and orchestra (March 20, 2016)
  • Sven Helbig : Music for the silent film Luther - A film of the German Reformation in a new cut for choir, orchestra and electronics (June 3, 2017)
  • Bernhard Lang : Monadologie XXXIV… "loops for Ludvik" for piano and orchestra (September 6, 2018)

Awards

Record prices

Grand Prix du Disque ( Charles Cros Academy )

Premio della Critica Discografica Italiana

  • 1969 for Weill: The seven deadly sins of the petty bourgeoisie under Herbert Kegel / Heinz Rögner and the vocal soloists Gisela May, Peter Schreier (tenor), Hans-Joachim Rotzsch (tenor), Günther Leib (baritone) and Hermann Christian Polster (bass); published by Eterna / Berlin Classics.

Record Award ( Music and Society ):

ECHO Classic :

Supersonic Award ( Pizzicato ):

Record Review Leaderboard :

  • 2010 Classical historical recordings for "God, what darkness here ..." with the Staatskapelle Dresden , the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Dresden Radio Orchestra a. a .; published by Naxos .

Further honors

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Gregor Seyffert's Wagner Reloaded - Live in Leipzig
(with Apocalyptica )
  DE 36 11/29/2013 (1 week)
  AT 70 11/29/2013 (1 week)
  CH 88 December 01, 2013 (1 week)
  BE F 180 11/30/2013 (2 weeks)
  FI 40 47/2013 (2 weeks)

The label querstand the 19-piece MDR was Edition works by Howard Arman , Johann Sebastian Bach , Ludwig van Beethoven , Hector Berlioz , Johannes Brahms , Carl Heinrich Graun , Gustav Mahler , Franz Schmidt , Arnold Schoenberg , Robert Schumann , Laurence Traiger , Wilhelm Weismann , Ralph Vaughan Williams published. The orchestra made its contribution to the Mendelssohn anthology of the same label. A recording of the Dresden Soul Symphony is available on CD and DVD. The MDR Musiksommer was accompanied by a CD edition each in 2006 and 2007.

The following recordings have been released by WERGO :

The Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra recorded works by contemporary composers for the CD documentation Music in Germany 1950–2000 ( Red Seal ) by the German Music Council . Among them were M. Schubert dance studies , Meyers Symphony for Strings , Eisler's German Symphony and The Council of the Gods , Dessau German Miserere , The Trial of Lucullus and Requiem for Lumumba , Goldmann's Symphony 3 , Schenker landscapes and beacon Spain in 1936 , Fortner To Posterity one , Wagner-Régenys Genesis , U. Zimmermann's Pax Questuosa , Cilenšek's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra , BA Zimmermann's Nobody knows de trouble I see and Medek's Die Drunkene Sonne .

A Portrait by Jean-Luc Darbellay was created with Claves Records . The collaboration with Jun Märkl is documented on CDs on the Altus label (Brahms, Hungarian Dances / 4th Symphony ) and Naxos (Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Elias and Lobgesang ).

In September 2012 Sony Classical released Carl Orff's Carmina Burana under the direction of Kristjan Järvi . In 2014 the album Balkan Fever with the soloists Miroslav Tadić , Vlatko Stefanovski and Theodosii Spassov followed under Järvi's direction at Naive .

On the occasion of the 200th anniversary of Richard Wagner , the MDR Symphony Orchestra published with the Finnish cello rock band Apocalyptica the label BMG which in the Arena Leipzig recorded live album Gregor Seyffert 's Wagner Reloaded . Apocalyptica songwriter Eicca Toppinen wrote the pieces and Sven Helbig was hired for the orchestration.

Film music

The orchestra recorded various soundtracks . It participated in the following feature and music films and series:

literature

monograph

  • Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth (Hrsg.): Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra . Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 .

Contributions

  • Björn Achenbach: Italian for beginners. The MDR Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi . In: Leipziger Blätter 44 (2004), p. 4 f.
  • Andreas Göpfert : Alfred Szendrei and the beginnings of the radio symphony orchestra . In: Leipziger Blätter 25 (1994), pp. 56-59.
  • Fritz Hennenberg : composers as interpreters. A study on the history of the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra from 1965 to 1980 . In: Leipzig. From the past and the present. Contributions to City History 6 (1989), pp. 226–269.
  • Fred Malige : The Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra. His becoming and working. On the occasion of the 2nd Leipzig International Bach Festival in 1970 . In: The music city of Leipzig. Working reports 6 (1970).
  • Günter Pohlenz: 70 years of MDR symphony orchestra. The era of evening red . In: Leipziger Blätter 24 (1994), pp. 82-85.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 9.
  2. ↑ And thus nine months earlier than the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
  3. ↑ a b Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 151.
  4. ↑ https://www.mdr.de/konzerte/dennis-russell-davies-chefdirigent100.html
  5. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 13.
  6. ^ Gerhard Mertens: In the beginning was music. The importance of public broadcasting for the German orchestral and musical culture . In: Das Orchester 11/2008, p. 26.
  7. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 14.
  8. ↑ Das Neue Leipzig (1931), Issue 9, p. 196.
  9. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 20.
  10. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 22.
  11. ↑ Die Musik 17 (1924), p. 237.
  12. ↑ Music and Society (1965), Volume 15, p. 177.
  13. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Altenburg 1999, p. 42.
  14. ↑ Cf. “In Szendrei, the orchestra had received a skilled conductor and excellent musician as Kapellmeister, who combined pedagogical skills with musical foresight. In a relatively short time he succeeded in creating an elastic body of sound out of the newly composed ensemble. ”(Thomas Schinköth: Jüdischemusik in Leipzig 1855–1945 . Altenburg 1994, p. 195.)
  15. ↑ We remember ... the 30th anniversary of the death of the conductor Alfred Szendrei ( memento of the original from October 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (February 29, 1884 - March 3, 1976). Website of the Friends of the MDR Choir Leipzig. Retrieved October 19, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.freunde-mdrrundfunkchor.de
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  72. ↑ a b c d MDR symphony orchestra has recorded the soundtrack for "Beutolomäus and the real Santa Claus" . ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. mdr.de, accessed on September 2, 2018. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mdr.de
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