Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is Australia's oldest professional symphonic ensemble, having been founded in 1906. It is also arguably the most versatile, with a performing repertory and recording catalog that include everything from standard orchestral works to unusual Australian works to pop and cinematic pieces.
Alberto Zelman, who founded the Melbourne Symphony, led it for its first 21 years of existence and built it into a world-class ensemble. Zelman was also the first Australian to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras. The orchestra affiliated itself with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1934, and it became the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in 1945; the orchestra has been supported by the government of Australia's Victoria State. The original Melbourne Symphony Orchestra name was restored in 1965. The orchestra had numerous conductors during the postwar years, most of them Europeans who stayed for only a short time. In 1974, Japan's Hiroyuki Iwaki ascended the podium; he would remain until 1997, becoming the orchestra's longest-serving conductor to date and taking the group on tour to Japan twice. That inaugurated a period of international exposure that included tours of North America, East Asia, and Europe, and in 2014 the Melbourne Symphony made its debut at the BBC Proms in London. Iwaki was succeeded in turn by the German Markus Stenz, Italy's Oleg Caetani (under whom the orchestra absorbed the Melbourne Chorale in 2008 and renamed it the MSO Chorus), and the Japanese-British Tadaaki Otaka before veteran British conductor Sir Andrew Davis arrived in 2013; his tenure was set to conclude in 2019.
Davis brought in such international stars as singers Bryn Terfel and Renée Fleming, and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for concerts, and took the orchestra on tours of China and Indonesia. He also continued the orchestra's vigorous recording program, which has been mostly associated with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Classics label. The variety of the Melbourne Symphony's recording catalog has been notable, including such items as a new recording of the soundtrack to the film Babe, the jazz recording Ella and Louis, and, in 2019, a recording of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ on Britain's major Chandos label.
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MSO Live - Copland: Appalachian Spring & Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Emma Matthews
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 14.03.2014
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1
Benjamin Northey, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jayson Gillham
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 07.07.2017
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HILL: Symphonies Nos. 4 and 6 / The Sacred Mountain
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Wilfred Lehmann
Klassik - Erschienen bei Marco-Polo am 31.12.1985
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Richard Strauss: Don Juan - Four Last Songs - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Erin Wall
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 05.09.2014
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Markus Stenz, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 01.01.2000
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Classic Choice
Jorge Mester, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 01.06.1993
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Anne Cawrse: Musaic (Recorded live at CUB Malthouse in Melbourne, Australia, on 5 May 2007)
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 24.11.2023
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905" (Live At Hamer Hall, 2005)
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 07.10.2005
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Mso Live - Mahler: Symphony No. 6
Mark Wigglesworth, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 05.01.2007
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Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
Christian Li, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Decca Music Group Ltd. am 20.08.2021
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Lumen Prime Aurore
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Northey
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 18.02.2022
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Stravinsky: Petrushka, Agon & Fireworks
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 02.04.2021
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Grainger: The Warriors
Geoffrey Simon, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Klassik - Erschienen bei Musical Concepts am 14.09.1990
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MSO - 100 Years Vol 7: Oleg Caetani
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 07.09.2007
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MSO - 100 Years Vol 3: John Hopkins Conducts Percy Grainger
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 01.06.2007
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MSO Live - Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2 (Live)
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 02.03.2012
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Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra & The Miraculous Mandarin
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Hiroyuki Iwaki
Klassik - Erschienen bei Warner Classics am 22.10.2021
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Hindemith: Orchestral Works, Vol. 6
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert
Klassik - Erschienen bei CPO am 01.12.1993
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ORCHESTRAL WORKS
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, West Australian Symphony Orchestra, Soloists of Australia, Hans-Hubert Schönzeler, Ronald Thomas
Symphonieorchester - Erschienen bei Chandos am 01.01.1987
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Vienna, City of My Dreams
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Yvonne Kenny
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 06.09.2008
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Toward the Shining Light: Orchestral Works by Conyngham, Broadstock and Banks
Klassik - Erschienen bei ABC Classic am 11.09.2012
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