Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
The Boston Symphony Orchestra is one of the most prominent U.S. symphonic ensembles, with deep roots in the Germanic practices that formed the model for American orchestral culture. The orchestra's catalogue of recordings on the RCA Victor label in the middle of the 20th century, artistically ambitious and sonically top-notch thanks to the ambiance of Boston's magnificent Symphony Hall, continue to set a standard. The Boston Symphony Orchestra was formed in 1881 with principal support from banker Henry Lee Higginson, who also spearheaded the construction of Symphony Hall and its opening in 1900. Its membership consisted largely of German-trained musician, and its first conductor, George Henschel, was a friend of Brahms. Subsequent conductors were German or, in the case of Arthur Nikisch, Hungarian. Especially important was Karl Muck, a former conductor of the Berlin Court Opera (now the Berlin State Opera), who led the orchestra from 1906 to 1908, and again from 1912 to 1918 after the leadership of Max Fiedler in the interim. Muck stepped down and was held in an internment camp in Georgia after espousing pro-German sympathies during World War I. But beginning with Pierre Monteux in 1919, the Boston Symphony boasted a series of internationally renowned and non-German conductors. Monteux was French; Serge Koussevitsky, who led the orchestra from 1924 to 1949, was Russian and a towering figure who commissioned numerous modern works and led the world premieres of Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra, among many other now-standard works, and founded the annual Tanglewood Music Festival and its associated talent-development classes, with the BSO in residence. Koussevitsky was succeeded by Alsatian-French Charles Münch (1949-1963) and the Austrian-Jewish Erich Leinsdorf, whose RCA recordings were central to collections in the LP era in the U.S. Leinsdorf was succeeded for several years by the ailing William Steinberg and in 1973 by Japanese-born Seiji Ozawa, whose leadership was artistically controversial but long, and also marked by significant recordings, mostly on the Deutsche Grammophon label. Another conductor with an operatic background, James Levine, followed Ozawa in 2002; he stepped down due to ill health and Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons, who had taken on Mahler's vast Symphony No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand") as an emergency replacement for Levine, was named conductor. His contract has been extended through 2022, and he has led the orchestra in new recordings with Deutsche Grammophon, including a live cycle of the symphonies of Dmitri Shostakovich. A notable feature of the orchestra's musical life is the existence of the Boston Pops light music orchestra, with personnel drawn from the ranks of the BSO; under conductor Arthur Fiedler (son of Max), that group attained unprecedented popularity on American radio and television as well as in live concerts. The Boston Symphony Orchestra has also been heard on the scores of two films by director Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List and Saving Private Ryan, with the scores' composer, John Williams, as conductor.
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The World's Greatest Orchestras - Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei UME - Global Clearing House am 09.01.2021
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Grieg: Peer Gynt; Sigurd Jorsalfar
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.1987
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Barcarolle - Favourite Opera Intermezzi
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.1990
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Rachmaninov: Les trois operas
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2004
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Gruber / Eötvös / Turnage: Trumpet Concertos
Håkan Hardenberger, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Peter Eötvös
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2006
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Tchaikovsky: Mazeppa
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2006
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Edvard Grieg: Peer Gynt-Suiten Nr. 1 & 2
Berliner Philharmoniker, Rafael Kubelik, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2000
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Chess in Concert
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Gothenburg Symphony Chorus, Anders Eljas
Musical - Erschienen bei Mono Music AB am 01.01.1994
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Music of the Northern Lights
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 02.09.2002
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Från Waterloo till Duvemåla (Live)
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, John Owen Edwards
Pop - Erschienen bei Mono Music AB am 01.01.1998
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Tchaikovsky; "1812" Overture
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 23.06.2009
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Grieg: Peer Gynt; Sigurd Jorsalfar
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.1987
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Rachmaninov: Aleko
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.1997
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos.13 "Babi Yar", 14 & 15
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2003
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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3; The Bolt
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2001
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Grieg: Piano Concerto; Peer Gynt Suites Nos.1 & 2
Lilya Zilberstein, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.1987
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Grieg: Peer Gynt Suites, Holberg Suite etc.
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2008
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Miaskovsky: Symphony No.6
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 03.06.2002
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Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade, Op. 35; Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Joseph Silverstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 01.01.2000
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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos.5 & 7; Karelia Suite
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 01.01.2012
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Steinberg: Symphony No.2; Variations Op.2
Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Klassik - Erschienen bei Deutsche Grammophon (DG) am 13.07.2001
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