Radio Symphony Orchestra Berlin

The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra in the Berlin Philharmonic

The Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin ( RSB ) is a traditional Berlin orchestra . It goes back to the first musical funk hour in Berlin broadcast from the Vox house on October 29, 1923 at 8 p.m. and initially consisted only of the all-round musician Otto Urack , who sometimes played together with individual musicians. The orchestra did not receive a symphonic line-up until the spring of 1925. The Mitteldeutsche Rundfunk AG (MIRAG) did not participate in the MDR symphony orchestra until October 17, 1924.

Music of all styles from pre-classical to modern are part of the symphonic repertoire of the orchestra. The music of the 20th century is a focus of the works performed. In cooperation with Deutschlandradio , the orchestra is available for radio and CD recordings in the studio in addition to its numerous public concerts in Berlin and abroad. Between 2010 and 2013, the 200th year of Richard Wagner's birth , the RSB and Marek Janowski published concert performances of ten important stage works by Wagner in the Berlin Philharmonie , including the complete Ring cycle.

At the end of 2009 there was a brief plan to incorporate the German Symphony Orchestra Berlin into the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra at the start of the 2011/2012 season . Marek Janowski was to remain chief conductor of the orchestra . Due to the great resistance from politics, the members and the audience of the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, the plan was rejected again.

history

The RSB was founded as the Berlin Funk Orchestra on June 18, 1925 . Thanks to the initiative of the opera singer and radio employee Cornelis Bronsgeest , the best musicians from the former orchestra of the Deutsche Volksoper in the Theater des Westens were taken on, making a professional start possible.

Many contemporary composers stood at the podium of the RSB, such as Paul Hindemith , Arthur Honegger , Darius Milhaud , Sergei Prokofjew , Richard Strauss , Arnold Schönberg and Igor Stravinsky as well as Krzysztof Penderecki , Friedrich Goldmann , Walter Schartner , Udo Zimmermann , Peter Maxwell Davies , Siegfried Matthus , Matthias Pintscher , Peter Ruzicka or Heinz Holliger .

The orchestra gave the first post-war concert in destroyed Berlin on May 18, 1945. Later it was the symphony orchestra of the GDR radio . It belongs to the Rundfunk-Orchester und -Chöre gGmbH , founded in 1994 , a group of four capital city radio ensembles ( RIAS Kammerchor , Rundfunkchor Berlin , RSB, DSO ), that of Deutschlandradio (40%), the Federal Republic of Germany (35%) , the State of Berlin (20%) and the Berlin-Brandenburg Broadcasting Corporation (5%).

Chief conductor

The orchestra's chief conductors were:

• 1924–1926 Wilhelm Buschkötter
• 1926–1932 Bruno Seidler-Winkler
• 1932–1934 Eugen Jochum
• 1945–1946 Sergiu Celibidache
• 1953–1956 Hermann Abendroth
• 1959–1973 Rolf Kleinert
• 1973–1993 Heinz Rögner
• 1994-2000 Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos
• 2002–2015 Marek Janowski
• Since 2017 Vladimir Jurowski

Awards and recordings

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Albums

City Lights ( Lisa Batiashvili , Radio Symphony Orchestra, Georgian Philharmonic Orchestra & Nikoloz Rachveli )   DE 44 06/12/2020 (2 weeks)

The orchestra's recordings, particularly of contemporary music, have repeatedly received awards, including a.

• 2002 Gramophone Award: Richard Strauss Four Last Songs , Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marek Janowski (conductor), ONDINE
• 2003 Cannes Classical Award: Karl Weigl Apocalyptic Symphony , Thomas Sanderling (conductor), BIS Records
• 2003 Echo Klassik, Grand Prix du Disque of the Charles Cros Academy , 2004 Cannes Classical Award: Paul Hindemith Die Harmonie der Welt , Marek Janowski (conductor), WERGO
• 2004 German Record Critics' Prize: Sergei Prokofjew Alexander Newski , Frank Strobel (conductor), Capriccio
• 2005 Award of the German Record Critics: Alfred Schnittke Filmmusik I (The Commissioner, The Story of an Unknown Actor), Frank Strobel (Conductor)
• 2006 German Record Critics' Award: Alfred Schnittke Filmmusik II , Frank Strobel (conductor)
• 2007 German Record Critics' Prize: Karl Amadeus Hartmann Sinfonia tragica , Marek Janowski (conductor)
• 2007 Echo Klassik: Ernst Krenek Sardakai , Reinhard Schmiedel (conductor), Capriccio
• 2007 Echo Klassik: Hans Werner Henze Aristaeus , Marek Janowski (conductor), WERGO

The RSB and Marek Janowski are also playing the complete symphonic works of Hans Werner Henze in cooperation with Deutschlandradio and the WERGO label.

Others

The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (formerly East ) should not be confused with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (formerly West Berlin ) that performed from 1956 to 1993 under the name of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra . In 1993 it was renamed the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin in order to eliminate the similarity of names.

See also

• Radio orchestra

Web links

• rsb-online.de

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jörg Clemen, Steffen Lieberwirth: Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk. The history of the symphony orchestra. Verlag Klaus-Jürgen Kamprad, Altenburg 1999, ISBN 3-930550-09-1 , p. 5
2. ↑ Two Berlin orchestras have to merge . World online . Retrieved March 29, 2010.
3. ↑ The farce behind the planned orchestral merger . World online . Retrieved March 29, 2010.
4. ^ Program of the festival concert 25 Years of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra , p. 1 and p. 8
5. ↑ Dieter Stolte : Freedom won: The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra was founded 75 years ago . In: Berliner Zeitung , October 31, 1998, viewed October 26, 2010; Excerpt from the lecture given by ZDF director Dieter Stolte on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra on October 29, 1998
6. ↑ Chart sources: Germany