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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Classical Spectacular
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 15 juil. 2005
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MSO Live - Tchaikovsky: Complete Symphonies
Musique symphonique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 19 juil. 2008
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Tansman: Symphonies Nos. 4, 5 & 6 (Vol. 1)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Melbourne Chorale, Oleg Caetani
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 janv. 2006
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Tansman: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3, 4 Mouvements (Vol. 3)
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Oleg Caetani
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Chandos le 30 sept. 2008
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Œuvres orchestrales
Sergei Stadler, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Oleg Caetani
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Chandos le 1 oct. 2005
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Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Intrata di Rob-Roy MacGregor & Rêverie et Caprice
Sir Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, James Ehnes
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mai 2015
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Hindemith: Orchestral Works, Vol. 4
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Werner Andreas Albert
Classique - Paru chez CPO le 1 janv. 1993
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MSO Live - Adès: Polaris - Stanhope: Piccolo Concerto
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 14 mars 2014
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Strauss: Ein Heldenleben / Intermezzo: Four Symphonic Interludes
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 11 mars 2016
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Takemitsu: Music for Orchestra
Hiroyuki Iwaki, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 3 mars 2017
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Œuvres orchestrales
Howard Shelley, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox
Musique symphonique - Paru chez Chandos le 12 févr. 2009
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Missa Solis: Requiem for Eli
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 7 sept. 2012
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MSO Live: Vaughan Williams - Chopin - Dukas
Musique symphonique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 11 sept. 2012
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A World of Christmas
Benjamin Northey, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, The Idea of North
Jazz - Paru chez ABC Jazz le 10 nov. 2017
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Khachaturian: Concerto pour violon: Shostakovich: Quatuors No. 7 & 8
James Ehnes, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Ehnes Quartet, Mark Wigglesworth
Classique - Paru chez Onyx Classics le 24 mars 2014
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Goossens: Orchestral Works
Sir Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mars 2013
4 étoiles Classica5 de Diapason24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Ives: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3
Sir Andrew Davis, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus
Symphonies - Paru chez Chandos le 1 mars 2017
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Spirit of France
John Lanchbery, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 1 janv. 1999
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Heart of Night
Musique concertante - Paru chez ABC Classic le 10 déc. 2010
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MSO Live - Copland: Appalachian Spring & Eight Poems of Emily Dickinson
Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Emma Matthews
Classique - Paru chez ABC Classic le 14 mars 2014
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1
Benjamin Northey, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Jayson Gillham
Musique concertante - Paru chez ABC Classic le 7 juil. 2017
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