Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks
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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Mahler: Orchestral Works
Hans Rosbaud, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne, Eva-Maria Rogner, Ernst Haefliger, Grace Hoffman
Classica - Pubblicato da SWR Classic il 11 set 2020
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Beethoven: Orchestral Works
Hans Rosbaud, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Ginette Neveu, Trio Di Trieste, Geza Anda
Classica - Pubblicato da SWR Classic il 15 mag 2020
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Busoni: Piano Concerto in C Major, Op. 39, BV 247
David Lively, Michael Gielen, Freiburger Vokalensemble, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks
Musica concertante - Pubblicato da SWR Classic il 8 mar 2024
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Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4 & Pelleas und Melisande, Op. 5 (Remastered 2021)
The Hollywood String Quartet, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Alvin Dinkin, Bruno Maderna, Kurt Reher
Classica - Pubblicato da JPK Musik il 15 gen 2021
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Vivaldi and Albrechtsberger: Concertos for Guitar and Recorder
Annette Struck-Vrangos, Boris Björn Bagger, Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Klaus Arp, Annette Struck-Vrangos, Boris Bjorn Bagger, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Klaus Arp
Classica - Pubblicato da Cascade il 5 mag 2009
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20th Century Classics - The Premiere Performances
Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra and Hans Rosbaud, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Hans Rosbaud
Classica - Pubblicato da Cascade il 21 lug 2009
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Mahler & Wagner: Orchestral Works
Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Hans Rosbaud, Eva Maria Rogner
Classica - Pubblicato da Archipel il 24 set 2021
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Albéniz: Iberia
Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Carole Farley, José Serebrier
Classica - Pubblicato da Phoenix USA il 28 giu 2000
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Liszt & Wagner: A Faust Symphony - Eine Faust-Ouvertüre
Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Ferdinand Koch
Musica sinfonica - Pubblicato da Altair il 4 mag 2023
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Reger: Piano Concerto in F Minor, Op. 114 - Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 25, K. 466 & 503
Erik Then-Bergh, Walter Gieseking, Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Philharmonia Orchestra, Hans Rosbaud
Classica - Pubblicato da Jube Classic il 7 ott 2022
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Bach: Violin Concerto No.1 in E Major BWV 1042
Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Alfred Scholz
Classica - Pubblicato da Red Note OMP il 17 mag 2010
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M for Movember
Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks, Erich Schmid, Moscow RTV Symphony Orchestra
Classica - Pubblicato da Music Manager il 1 dic 2015
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