Plakat Familienkonzert - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Client: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Format: A1
Artwork by Martin Fengel
Many renowned guest conductors, such as Clemens Krauss, Erich and Carlos Kleiber, Charles Munch, Ferenc Fricsay, Otto Klemperer, Karl Böhm, Günter Wand, Sir Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Sanderling and Wolfgang Sawallisch have left indelible imprints on the Symphonieorchester in the past. Today Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, Esa- Pekka Salonen and Franz Welser-Möst number amongst the significant partners who regularly mount the podium in Munich. The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks was also the only German orchestra with which Leonard Bernstein regularly collaborated for many years. An especially close artistic friendship came about, to which the Munich audience owes incomparable concert experiences, such as the legendary concert performance of Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” in 1981. In 1989 Bernstein, the Chor and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks altered the text of Schiller’s “Ode to Joy” from “Freude” (“joy”) to “Freiheit” (“freedom”) when they performed Beethoven’s 9th Symphony to mark the fall of the Wall between East and West Berlin.
Besides the many performances and recordings in Munich and other cities in the station’s broadcast range, extensive concert tours are today central components in the everyday life of the orchestra. Tours have taken the orchestra to virtually every European country, to Asia as well as to North and South America. It makes regular appearances in New York’s Carnegie Hall and in the renowned concert halls in Japan’s musical capitals. Among the special appearances outside Germany during the 2008/2009 are concerts in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, at the Théatre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, an additional American and Eastern European tour with performances in Zagreb, Sofia, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Since 2004, the Symphonieorchester under the direction of its current Chief Conductor, Mariss Jansons, is additionally the orchestra in residence at the Easter Festival in Lucerne. ✐