SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
The SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra (German: SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg) was the house orchestra of Germany's Südwestrundfunk (Southwestern Broadcasting Network). From the beginning, the group had chief conductors who had a strong orientation toward contemporary music.
The orchestra was founded on February 1, 1946, as the Philharmonisches Orchester des Südwestfunks (Southwest Radio Philharmonic Orchestra), taking its membership from an earlier Sinfonie- und Kurorchesters Baden-Baden (Symphony and Spa Orchestra of Baden-Baden) that had been discontinued during World War II. Later in 1946, the group changed its name to the Großes Orchester des Südwestfunks (Large Orchestra of Southwest Radio), and in 1966, it became the Sinfonieorchester des Südwestfunks (Southwest Radio Symphony Orchestra). The orchestra assumed its final name in 1998 when the Southwest German and South German radio networks merged to form the SWR.
The group's first conductor was veteran Gotthold Ephraim Lessing. He was succeeded in 1948 by Hans Rosbaud, an Austrian with a strong interest in contemporary music who led world premieres of works by Hindemith and Stravinsky. From that point forward, the orchestra premiered some 500 new works and gained a reputation well beyond Germany for adventurous programming. The young composer Pierre Boulez began his career with the group in 1958 as artist-in-residence. Rosbaud was succeeded by Ernest Bour (1964 until 1979), who conducted a recording of György Ligeti's Atmosphères that was heard on the soundtrack of the film 2001: A Space Odyssey; Kazimierz Kord (1980 until 1986); Michael Gielen (1986 until 1999), who under his "Musik ist unteilbar" ("Music Is Indivisible") motto sought to give standard repertory and contemporary music equal status; Sylvain Cambreling (1999 until 2011); and finally, François-Xavier Roth (2011 until 2016), who continued the orchestra's contemporary music mission under the motto "Wir spielen neue Musik aus allen Zeiten" ("we play new music from all periods").
In 2012, German radio executives voted to merge the SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra and the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra on the grounds that the two radio network orchestras served generally similar areas. The decision aroused strong protest, and the SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra continued to perform. The orchestra made its first appearance at the BBC Proms in 2015. The following year it gave its final concert at the Konzerthaus Freiburg, it's home since the late 1990s, and was replaced by the new SWR Symphonieorchester.
The SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra had a distinguished recording catalog of well over 50 albums. The group recorded for the Arte Nova, Hänssler Classic, NEOS, and other smaller, high-quality labels, and several were made at the influential Donaueschingen Musiktage festival. Recordings by the SWR Baden-Baden and Freiburg Symphony Orchestra have continued to appear on SWR Klassik, the in-house label of the new SWR Symphonieorchester; these recordings date back as far as Rosbaud's day. SWR Klassik released a complete set of Richard Strauss' tone poems, conducted by Roth, in 2021.
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Classique - Paru chez SWR Classic le 3 mars 2015
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RAVEL: Daphnis et Chloe / POULENC: Les Biches (Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 2)
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Classique - Paru chez SWR Classic le 1 janv. 2000
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8, Op. 65
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Friedrich Cerha: Orchestral Works
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Classique - Paru chez KAIROS le 1 févr. 2016
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Isang Yun: Works, Vol. 8 (Live)
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Classique - Paru chez Internationale Isang Yun Gesellschaft e.V. le 27 mai 2022
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Plays Mozart and Ravel (1952, 1963)
Geza Anda, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Hans Rosbaud, Ernest Bour
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Les ballets russes, Vol. 10
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde & Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9
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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique - Concert Overtures
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Les Ballets Russes, Vol. 8
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SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg/ Leon Fleisher play: Ludwig van Beethoven: Klavierkonzert Nr. 1
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Leon Fleisher
Musique concertante - Paru chez Classico Ivano le 5 sept. 2014
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 in E Minor, Op. 93 (Live)
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Donald Runnicles
Classique - Paru chez SWR Mediaservices GmbH le 13 mars 2020
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Haydn, Weber & Genzmer: Piano Concertos
Wolfram Lorenzen, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Bamberger Symphoniker, Ernest Bour, Grzegorz Nowak, Alexander Symeonides
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Beethoven: Symphonie No. 5 & Ouverture de Fidelio (Mono Version)
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Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1960
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Schubert: Symphony No. 4 in C Minor, D. 417 "Tragic"
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Classique - Paru chez SWR Mediaservices GmbH le 16 nov. 2018
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Schubert: Famous Symphonies
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Classique - Paru chez SWR Classic le 4 sept. 2012
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Patsch lernt Zaubern im Zirkus Strawinsky. SWR Young CLASSIX
Rainer Strecker, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Lotte Kinskofer
Enfants - Paru chez Helbling Verlag GmbH le 17 oct. 2016
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Mendelssohn: Concerto pour violon, Op. 64 (Mono Version)
Devy Erilh, Ernest Bour, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Divers - Paru chez BNF Collection le 1 janv. 1958
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Schoenberg: Serenade, Op. 24
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Derrik Olsen, Hans Rosbaud
Musique de chambre - Paru chez SWR Mediaservices GmbH le 1 juil. 2016
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 8 in F Major, Op. 93
SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg, Hans Rosbaud
Classique - Paru chez SWR Mediaservices GmbH le 9 nov. 2018
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