Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt
The Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt is an orchestra operating under the auspices of the German state of Brandenburg in the city of Frankfurt an der Oder on the Polish border, or Frankfurt (Oder), not the larger city of Frankfurt-am-Main that is usually denoted by the Frankfurt name. The orchestra has a long regional history and has achieved international recognition since German reunification in 1991. Its ancestors date back to 1842, when an orchestra was established in the Frankfurt Stadttheater; the orchestra gained the backing of a Philharmonic Association in 1871, but that group dissolved in 1895. The theater orchestra continued to operate until the theater buildlng was destroyed during World War II. It was reconstituted in the city's new Kleist Theater after the war, and joined with a rival Frankfurter Kulturorchester to form the Philharmonisches Orchester Frankfurt (Oder) in 1971. The group gained its first non-German conductor in 1991 when Greece's Nikos Athineos ascended the podium. He was succeeded by Heribert Beissel, who remains active as an honorary conductor, and, in 2007, by British conductor Howard Griffiths. The orchestra split off from the Kleist Theater and came under Brandenburg state sponsorship, assuming the name Staatsorchester Frankfurt in 1995; in 2001 it took its present name. The orchestra draws its membership not only from Brandenburg but from the nearby Polish city of Slubice and its environs. Among the orchestra's innovative programming ideas is an annual Mitmach-Orchester (Participant Orchestra) event in which anyone who wishes may join the orchestra for an evening. Beginning with a 2006 recording of Mozart's flute concertos featuring Junko and Takao Ukigaya, the orchestra has been a frequent presence on the German recording scene, issuing albums mostly on the Klanglogo and CPO labels. For the former, they released a recording of Klaus Wüsthoff's tone poem Die Regentrude in 2018. The orchestra may be familiar to gamers for its recordings of music for Anno 1701 and The Witcher 3.
© James Manheim /TiVo
-
Josef Holbrooke : Symphonic Poems, Vol. 2
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Judith Ingolfsson, Howard Griffiths
Symphonic Music - Released by CPO on 23 Sep 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Howard Griffiths: Dmitri Shostakovich, Jazz Suite No 2
Antonii Baryshevskyi, Romain Leleu, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 6 Jul 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Howard Griffiths: Beethoven Rarities
Claire Huangci, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths, Ludwig van Beethoven
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 23 Feb 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Pejačević: Piano Concerto, Overture & Orchestral Songs
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Ingeborg Danz, Oliver Triendl, Howard Griffiths
Classical - Released by CPO on 5 May 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Joseph Holbrooke : Symphonic Poems
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths
Symphonic Music - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2009
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Poland Abroad, Vol. 2: Symphonic Poems
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Klaudyna Schulze-Broniewska
Classical - Released by EDA RECORDS on 1 Jan 2000
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Offenbach : Opera Ouvertures
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths
Overtures - Released by CPO on 3 May 2019
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Röntgen: Orchestral Works
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Helsingborg Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Oct 2021
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Paul Lincke: Overtures, Vol. 1
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Ernst Theis
Classical - Released by CPO on 6 Jan 2023
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
弓弦咏叹 (Arr. for Violin by Tomas Ille and Jan Valta)
李传韵, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, 范焘
Classical - Released by 天弦唱片 on 1 Nov 2012
24-Bit 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Reger : Orchestral Works
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Klaudyna Schulze-Broniewska, Ira Levin
Classical - Released by Naxos on 11 Oct 2019
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Milan Mihajlovic: Orchestral Works
Jan Marcek, Ikeya Yoriko, Juliana Koch, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Robert Starke, Howard Griffiths
Classical - Released by CPO on 31 Jan 2020
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Howard Griffiths: Orchestral Lollipops
Fine Arts Brass, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 24 Jun 2014
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Röntgen: Symphonies Nos. 9 & 21
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, David Porcelijn
Classical - Released by CPO on 7 Apr 2017
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Between Heaven and Earth
Yvonne Smeulers, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Peter Kuhn
Classical - Released by Genuin on 3 Jul 2020
24-Bit 96.0 kHz - Stereo -
Reznicek, E.N. Von: Symphony No. 1, "Tragische" / 4 Bet- Und Bussgesange
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Marina Prudenskaya, Frank Beermann
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2008
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Jadassohn: Symphonies Nos. 1-4
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Klaudyna Schulze-Broniewska, Thomas Georgi, Howard Griffiths
Classical - Released by CPO on 7 Apr 2015
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Howard Griffiths: Music from the Motion Pictures
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Howard Griffiths
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 30 Sep 2016
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Alfano: Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Israel Yinon
Classical - Released by CPO on 1 Jan 2004
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo -
Klaus Wüsthoff: Die Regentrude
Martina Gedeck, Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Ulrich Kern
Classical - Released by Rondeau Production on 25 May 2018
24-Bit 48.0 kHz - Stereo -
Lincke: Overtures, Vol. 2
Brandenburgisches Staatsorchester Frankfurt, Ernst Theis
Classical - Released by CPO on 3 Feb 2023
16-Bit CD Quality 44.1 kHz - Stereo