ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna

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The ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna is an important Austrian orchestra .

history

Max Schönherr

After the Second World War in 1945, Max Schönherr (conductor, composer, arranger) put together an orchestra with around 50 musicians for the radio stock corporation " RAVAG ", later Austrian broadcasting company. In this form, it also played the world premiere of the new Austrian national anthem on March 7, 1947 , together with the choir of the Wiener Schubertbund . Max Schönherr conducted the Vienna Radio Orchestra, which later became the “Great Vienna Radio Orchestra”, for 23 years. When the orchestra was entrusted more and more with symphonic music, the name was changed to "Great Orchestra of Austrian Radio".

Milan Horvat

The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra (RSO Vienna) emerged from the Great Orchestra of the Austrian Broadcasting Corporation ( ORF ) in 1969 and was initially called the ORF Symphony Orchestra until 1996 . After the broadcast reform in 1967, Otto Sertl became head of music at Austrian Broadcasting in 1969. His task was to form radio orchestras based on the German and English models. Milan Horvat became the first conductor. He developed the orchestra into a large ensemble for contemporary music.

Leif Segerstam

With the then 31-year-old Leif Segerstam , a young conductor took over the orchestra for the first time in 1975. During his time as conductor and artistic director until 1982, the program focused on Nordic composers such as Jean Sibelius . In 1987, after his time in Vienna, Segerstam conducted a complete Sibelius evening as a gala concert for the 70th anniversary of Finnish independence in the Vienna Hofburg.

Lothar Zagrosek

In 1982, Lothar Zagrosek, a conductor who played music from the 20th century, followed. Recordings from this period include Gottfried von Einems Danton's death , Karl Amadeus Hartmann's singing scene , Josef Matthias Hauer's Salambo , Ernst Krenek's Organ Concerto op.235, Frank Martins Der Cornet (awarded the Grand Prix du Disque ), Olivier Messiaen's Saint François d ' Assise , Franz Schmidts The Book with Seven Seals and Alexander Zemlinsky's Lyric Symphony .

Zagrosek terminated his contract in 1986 to become Directeur musicale of the Paris Opera .

Pinchas Steinberg

His successor was Pinchas Steinberg in 1989 . During his time the orchestra expanded its repertoire. On the one hand it was the concert performances of opera rarities (such as Giuseppe Gazzaniga's Don Giovanni o sia Il Convitato di Pietra ), on the other hand the popular carnival concerts with which he set new accents.

Dennis Russell Davies

In 1996 the company was renamed RSO Vienna and Dennis Russell Davies took over the management. In particular, the American performed several works by his compatriot Philip Glass .

Bertrand de Billy

From September 1, 2002 to August 30, 2010, Bertrand de Billy was chief conductor. Under his direction the orchestra developed into one of the leading orchestras in Austria.

In February 2009 there was another renaming to ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra Vienna or ORF RSO Vienna. The orchestra is based in the Funkhaus Wien .

Cornelius Master

He was followed in 2010 with Cornelius Meister, the youngest chief conductor to date. With award-winning recordings of Gottfried von Einems The Trial and the symphonies by Bohuslav Martinů, he was able to successfully build on the tradition of his predecessors.

Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop became the first woman to conduct the orchestra in 2019 .

program

The orchestra at the opening event of the Wiener Festwochen 2014

In addition to the typical tasks of a radio orchestra, the orchestra's program focus is on maintaining contemporary music . Since 1969 the orchestra has continuously expanded its repertoire from pre-classical to avant-garde .

Music mediation

Talk concerts have been held since 2004. Initially, they took place six times a season with the music critic Wilhelm Sinkovicz , in the morning for school classes and in the evening for the public. In the 2019/2020 season, there are three evening concerts on the program, moderated by Christoph Becher and Teresa Vogl . A number of offers for children, adolescents and young adults are bundled under the title my RSO .

Guest performances

In addition to concert cycles in the Wiener Konzerthaus and the Wiener Musikverein, the Vienna RSO is a permanent guest at important festivals such as the Salzburg Festival , Carinthischer Sommer Villach, musikprotokoll / Steirischer Herbst Graz, Wiener Festwochen and Wien Modern , Osterklang and Klangbogen and is an opera orchestra in the theater at the Vienna . Foreign tours have taken the orchestra to the USA, South America, China, Korea and Japan as well as to various European countries.

Chamber music

In 1976 concert master Annemarie Ortner-Kläring founded the Kläring Quartet , a string quartet. The quartet was active until the reform of the ORF in 1996, as a result of which the orchestra's chamber music activities were restricted.

Since 2017, the musicians have been performing a chamber music cycle at the ORF RadioKulturhaus and at the Arnold Schönberg Center .

Film music

Since 2007 the orchestra has been playing contemporary works of film music at the annual Hollywood film music gala in Vienna in the Great Hall of the Vienna Konzerthaus.

In recent years a number of soundtracks for film productions have been added:

Chief conductor

Awards (selection)

See also

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Österreichischer Rundfunk (Ed.): Orchestral playing . Stories from the life of the RSO Vienna. ORF, Vienna 2010.
  2. ^ Frank Martin: The Cornet (CD). Catalog entry. Orfeo International, accessed April 13, 2020 .
  3. ↑ my RSO ... the music education series of the RSO Vienna. In: RSO.orf.at. Retrieved March 7, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Marin Alsop becomes chief conductor of the RSO. In: orf.at. January 29, 2018. Retrieved January 29, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Winners 2018. In: ICMA. January 18, 2018, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  6. ↑ Johann Buddecke: These are the winners of the OPUS KLASSIK. In: concerti.de. October 5, 2018, accessed March 6, 2020 .
  7. ↑ a b Prizes and awards. In: RSO.orf.at. Retrieved March 6, 2020 .