Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR

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Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR

The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR (RSO) was one of two radio orchestras of the Südwestrundfunk (SWR). In 2016 it was merged with the SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg to form the SWR Symphony Orchestra .

history

The origins of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR go back to 1924, when the violinist Gregor von Akimoff founded an orchestra, today's Stuttgart Philharmonic , together with 22 musicians . This philharmonic orchestra became the "house orchestra" of Süddeutsche Rundfunk AG . In 1933 the orchestra was split into a radio orchestra and a regional orchestra .

In December 1945, 19 former radio musicians met to make music in a cinema on Heusteigstrasse in Stuttgart. In the spring of 1946, the large orchestra of Radio Stuttgart was formed in the American zone of occupation, comprising 57 posts and thus still classified as a D orchestra . The Stuttgart composer Rolf Unkel initially led the orchestra; Gustav Koslik took over from him in 1947 .

On September 1, 1948, Hans Müller-Kray , from 1950 also head of the main music department, became chief conductor of the large radio orchestra. After the Süddeutsche Rundfunk became an institution under public law in the summer of 1949 , the orchestra traded as the symphony orchestra of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk . In 1951 he received the title of general music director. He used the classical-romantic repertoire a. a. he continued the tradition of opera productions of the Weimar Republic. He also promoted the musical avant-garde , initially from those around the orchestra such as Hermann Reutter , Johann Nepomuk David , Erhard Karkoschka and Wolfgang Fortner . During and after his tenure, prominent orchestra conductors were guests in Stuttgart a. a. Wilhelm Furtwängler and Ferenc Fricsay . Even Bruno Maderna , Ernest Bour , Hans Zender , Lucas Vis , Lothar Zagrosek and Peter Eötvös stood before the orchestra. Contemporary composers like Pierre Boulez also conducted their own pieces. The Helmut Lachenmann Radio Orchestra , whose music was performed in large numbers , felt connected . Between 1950 and 1966, Carl Schuricht helped the orchestra to more than 120 recordings and became a kind of first guest conductor; From 1964, Michael Gielen , who specializes in new music, was the orchestra's permanent guest conductor. In July 1959, the radio orchestra was renamed the Südfunk Sinfonieorchester . In 1960 it received 85 posts. After the Berlin Wall was built in 1962, an additional twelve musicians, who lived in West Berlin, joined the Staatskapelle Berlin .

After the unexpected death of Müller-Kray in 1969, a period of guest conductors began. Sergiu Celibidache , who headed the orchestra for the first time in the 1958/59 season, was a permanent guest conductor from 1972 to 1979 and was the orchestra's “artistic director”. In addition, he was to remain associated with the orchestra from 1979 to 1982. During his time in Stuttgart he made the orchestra known beyond its borders and led it among other things. a. to Yugoslavia, Spain, France and Austria. According to observers, it ranks behind the Berliner Philharmoniker , which Celibidache led in the post-war period. In January 1975 the radio orchestra was renamed the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra .

In 1983 (Sir) Neville Marriner became Chief Conductor. He opened the orchestra to commercial record productions and emerged as a Rossini interpreter. His successor was Gianluigi Gelmetti from 1989 to 1995 , who was known to the orchestra from 1987 as the first permanent guest conductor. Gelmetti let u. a. Beethoven, Brahms, Mahler and Mozart as well as contemporary music play. From 1996 to 1998 Georges Prêtre was artistic director.

With the merger of the Süddeutscher Rundfunk (SDR) with the Südwestfunk (SWF) it was added to the Südwestrundfunk (SWR) in 1998 and was henceforth called the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR . The English chief conductor Sir Roger Norrington (1998–2011), himself coming from historical performance practice , brought early music closer to the orchestra . He performed several work cycles of the Viennese Classic and Romantic periods : Beethoven, Berlioz, Brahms, Bruckner, Haydn, Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Mahler, Mozart and Schumann. Norrington also played English (Elgar, Williams) and Scandinavian symphonies. Excellent CD and DVD recordings were made. Observers spoke of a "Stuttgart Sound". Tours took the orchestra a. a. to Japan, China, France and Austria. On the occasion of the 80th birthday of the German Pope Benedict XVI. Gustavo Dudamel made a guest appearance with the orchestra in the Vatican in 2007 .

The French Stéphane Denève was the last chief conductor from 2011 to 2016, where he saw his focus on French music (Ravel et al.). He also played romantic and contemporary works. He attended with the orchestra a. a. Japan and the United Kingdom.

The Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR had a special reputation for the performance of contemporary music and has been responsible for numerous world premieres , including 60 operas , throughout its history . In cooperation with German opera houses (including in Stuttgart, Cologne, Berlin and Düsseldorf) from the 1950s onwards, it regularly participated in the opera and ballet productions of the Schwetzingen Festival in North Baden. It took part in the concert series “Music of Our Time” (later redesigned to attacca by Hans-Peter Jahn ) and at the Stuttgart Days for New Music (later Eclat ).

fusion

Following the merger of the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra ( SR ) with the Kaiserslautern Radio Orchestra (SWR) to form the German Radio Philharmonic Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern (SR) in 2007, another orchestral merger followed at SWR, which was financially responsible for three radio orchestras from the 1990s . On September 28, 2012, the SWR Broadcasting Council under Harald Augter decided to merge the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR with the SWR Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden and Freiburg . Stuttgart became the seat of the new SWR Symphony Orchestra , which began playing in the 2016/17 season. According to the broadcaster, the job cuts should be "due to age-related departures", i. H. take place without dismissals for operational reasons .

More than 31,000 citizens as well as 160 conductors (FAZ) and 148 composers (ZEIT), but also music organizations such as the German Orchestra Association , the German Music Council , the Association of German Concert Directors, the New Music Network and the Society for New Music opposed the decision . In an open letter addressed to the SWR director Peter Boudgoust , renowned conductors such as Herbert Blomstedt , Pierre Boulez , Christoph von Dohnányi , Nikolaus Harnoncourt , Marek Janowski , Kent Nagano and David Zinman complained about the decision as "artistically nonsensical" and "economically at least questionable ". It is "a cultural-political oath of disclosure". While the composers Wolfgang Rihm and Jörg Widmann also expressed their incomprehension, Helmut Lachenmann , who was closely associated with the orchestra, even spoke of a “criminally blind and indifferent ignorance”.

The orchestra board of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR criticized the Neue Musikzeitung for "its journalistically poorly researched and tendentious reports according to the motto: 'There is more culture in Freiburg than in Stuttgart'". The newspaper's editors ( Andreas Kolb and Gerhard Rohde ) and editors-in-chief ( Juan Martin Koch and Theo Geißler ) previously wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann (Bündnis 90 / Die Grünen). In it they complained that the "silence" of state politics irritated the music world.

Venues

At the beginning of the 1950s, the Süddeutsche Rundfunk moved into Villa Berg in East Stuttgart , from where it was broadcast. In 1957 the Berg Funkstudio was inaugurated as a residence for the radio orchestra. It also played in the Stuttgart Liederhalle . Most recently it was located in the Stuttgart radio station .

Chief conductor

From 1969 to 1983 the orchestra worked with guest conductors.

World premieres (selection)

Awards

Record prices

  • 1999: Echo Klassik (Editorial Service of the Year) for Celibidache Edition
  • 2006: Echo Klassik (choral work recording of the year) for Ch. Koechlin: vocal works with orchestra
  • 2008: Echo Klassik (world premiere recording of the year) for St. John Passion and St. John Easter
  • 2009: Grand Prix du Disque (Musique Symphonique) for Charles Koechlin: Les Bandar-log / Offrande musicale sur le nom de Bach
  • 2012: Echo Klassik (The symphonic recording of the year) for Elgar: Enigma Variations
  • 2014: Echo Klassik (classical music for children) for Igor Stravinsky: The Firebird
  • 2017: Echo Klassik (concert recording B) music of the 19th century) for Weber: Complete Works For Clarinet
  • 2018: Opus Klassik (concert recording of the year) for Carl Reinecke: Flute Concertos & Flute Sonatas

Nominations

  • 2017: Nomination for the Grammy (Best Classical Instrumental Solo) for 1930's Violin Concertos, Vol. 2

Leaderboards

  • 2008: Best list 1-2008 of the German Record Critics' Prize (concerts and orchestral music) for Mozart: Essential Symphonies Vol. 1
  • 2010: Best list 1-2010 of the German Record Critics' Prize (orchestral music and concerts) for Joseph Haydn: 12 London Symphonies
  • 2011: Best list 3-2011 of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (historical recordings classical) for Ida Haendel plays Khachaturian & Bartók Violin Concertos
  • 2012: Best list 3-2012 of the German Record Critics' Prize (orchestral music and concerts) for Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 15
  • 2013: Best list 5-2013 (Le coin du collectionneur) of the Diapason d'or for Poulencs Stabat Mater and Les Biches
  • 2015: Best list 3-2014 (Découvertes) of the Diapason d'or for Carlos Kleiber in rehearsal and performance
  • 2016: Best list 1-2016 (Le coin du collectionneur) of the Diapason d'or for Honegger's 2nd and 3rd symphonies a. a.
  • 2017: Best list 2-2017 of the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik (orchestral music) for Weber: Complete Works For Clarinet

literature

SWR series:

  • "Music from our archives [orchestral stories] ". Sending at SWR2 from March 2016 to May ten-part series on the history of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR and SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Manuscripts for the broadcasts by Reinhard Ermen ( 1 ), Dorothea Bosser ( 3 ), Burkhard Egdorf ( 5 ), Kerstin Gebel ( 7 and 9 ).

Web links

Commons : Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. An open letter from one hundred and sixty conductors . faz.net, November 12, 2013.
  2. Julia Blank: Wolfgang Rihm and Jörg Widmann position themselves in matters of orchestral fusion at SWR . nmz.de, March 18, 2012.
  3. "Criminally blind and indifferent ignorance": Helmut Lachenmann opposes the SWR's orchestral savings plans , nmz.de, March 15, 2012.
  4. ^ Orchestra board of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra of the SWR: Concern for the future, not opportunism . In: Neue Musikzeitung 5/2013, 62nd year
  5. Two orchestras die and politics remain silent . In: Neue Musikzeitung 3/2013, 62nd year
  6. a b c d Search for the artist “Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart” in the Echo Prize Winner Database, echoklassik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  7. Grands Prix du Disque et du DVD 2009 , charlescros-org.site-preview.net, accessed on October 21, 2018.
  8. Search for the artist "Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra" in the Echo Prize Winner Database, echoklassik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  9. winners , opusklassik.de, accessed on 16 October 2018th
  10. Here Is the Complete List of Nominees for the 2017 Grammys , billboard.com, accessed October 16, 2018.
  11. Best list 1-2008 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  12. Best List 1-2010 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  13. Best List 3-2011 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  14. Best List 3-2012 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  15. Diapason 613 , diapasonmag.fr, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  16. Diapason 633 , diapasonmag.fr, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  17. Diapason 642 , diapasonmag.fr, accessed on October 16, 2018.
  18. Best List 2-2017 , schallplattenkritik.de, accessed on October 16, 2018.