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NDR Radiophilharmonie
The NDR Radiophilharmonie is a German radio orchestra, affiliated with the Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in Hanover, the capital of Lower Saxony. The orchestra principally gives concerts in the ''Großer Sendesaal'' of the '' Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen''. History A historical precursor orchestra was the ''Niedersächsisches Sinfonie-Orchester'', a radio orchestra that was affiliated with the ''Nordische Rundfunk Aktiengesellschaft'' since the late 1920s. Following World War II, with the founding of the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR), the current orchestra was founded in 1950 originally as the ''Rundfunkorchester Hannover''. Willy Steiner was the first chief conductor, beginning in 1950, and held the post until 1975. During his tenure, the orchestra later changed its name to the ''Radiophilharmonie Hannover''. In 2003, the orchestra took its current name of the ''NDR Radiophilharmonie''. After Steiner, chief conductors have been Bernhard Klee, Eiji Ōue and Eivind Gullber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Radio Orchestra
A radio orchestra (or broadcast orchestra) is an orchestra employed by a radio network (and sometimes television networks) in order to provide programming as well as sometimes perform incidental or theme music for various shows on the network. In the heyday of radio such orchestras were numerous, performing classical, popular, light music and jazz. However, in recent decades, broadcast orchestras have become increasingly rare. Those that still exist perform mainly classical and contemporary orchestral music, though broadcast light music orchestras, jazz orchestras and big bands are still employed by some radio stations in Europe. Famous broadcast orchestras include the NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–1954) conducted by Arturo Toscanini, the five orchestras maintained by the British Broadcasting Corporation, particularly the BBC Symphony Orchestra founded in 1930, the MDR Symphony Orchestra founded in 1923, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra founded in 1949, the Tokyo-based NH ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eiji Ōue
is a Japanese conductor. Biography Oue began his conducting studies with Hideo Saito of the Toho Gakuen School of Music. In 1978, Seiji Ozawa invited him to spend the summer studying at the Tanglewood Music Center. There he met Leonard Bernstein, who became a mentor. Oue won the Tanglewood Koussevitzky Prize in 1980.Biography in "Respighi: Belkis, Queen of Sheba, suite, et al." Minnesota Orchestra, Eiji Oue, conductor. Sound recording :(RR-95CD) He also studied under Bernstein as a conducting fellow at the Los Angeles Philharmonic Institute. Oue became music director of the Greater Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras in 1982, a post he held until 1989. He was music director of the Erie Philharmonic from 1990 to 1995. He has also served as associate conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. From 1995 to 2002, he was music director of the Minnesota Orchestra. During his Minnesota tenure, the orchestra saw its attendance decline from 84% to 69% in capacity. He presided ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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German Symphony Orchestras
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Jörg Widmann
Jörg Widmann (; born 19 June 1973) is a German composer, conductor and clarinetist. In 2023, Widmann was the third most performed living contemporary composer in the world. Formerly a clarinet and composition professor at the University of Music Freiburg, he is composition professor at the Barenboim–Said Akademie. His most important compositions are the concert overture '' Con brio'', the opera '' Babylon'', an oratorio '' Arche'', Viola Concerto, '' Kantate'' and the trumpet concerto '' Towards Paradise''. Widmann has written musical tributes to Classical and Romantic composers. He was awarded the Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art in 2018 and the Bach Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg in 2023. He was Gewandhaus Composer of the Gewandhaus Orchester Leipzig and Composer in Residence for the Berlin Philharmonic. Early life and education Widmann was born on 19 June 1973 in Munich, the son of a physicist and a teacher. His sister is the Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eivind Gullberg Jensen
Eivind Gullberg Jensen (born 1 April 1972) is a Norwegian conductor. Biography Jensen studied violin and conducting in Trondheim. He continued his conducting studies with Jorma Panula in Stockholm and in Vianna with Leopold Hager. Jensen has also participated in conducting master classes with Kurt Masur and David Zinman. From 2009 to 2014, Jensen was chief conductor of the NDR Radiophilharmonie. In June 2019, Bergen National Opera Bergen National Opera () is a Norwegian opera company based in Bergen. The company has its administrative headquarters at the ''Grieghallen''. History Originally called ''Den Nye Opera'' (the new opera), Bergen National Opera was established as ... announced the appointment of Jensen as its next general director and artistic director, effective in 2021. In September 2024, Bergen National Opera announced an extension of Jensen's contract through 31 December 2030. In 2018, Jensen first guest-conducted the Noord Nederlands Orkest (NNO). J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aldo Ceccato
Aldo Ceccato (born 18 February 1934) is an Italian conductor. Biography Ceccato was born in Milan. He worked as assistant to Sergiu Celibidache and was music director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 1973 until 1977. From 1976 until 1982, he was music director of the Hamburg Philharmonic. He was also music director of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra ( Norwegian: Bergen filharmoniske orkester) is a Norwegian orchestra based in Bergen. Its principal concert venue is the Grieg Hall. History Established in 1765 under the name ''Det Musicalske Selskab'' (The M ... from 1985 until 1990. He is the son-in-law of conductor Victor de Sabata and has made a recording of de Sabata's compositions for the Hyperion record label. In 1971, he recorded Donizetti's ''Maria Stuarda'' and Verdi's ''La traviata'', both with Beverly Sills. References 1934 births Italian male conductors (music) Living people Musicians from Milan 21 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zdeněk Mácal
Zdeněk Mácal (; 8 January 1936 – 25 October 2023) was a Czech conductor who worked internationally. The promising conductor who had won international competitions left his home country of Czechoslovakia in 1968 when the Warsaw Pact ended the Prague Spring, to return only after communism ended there. He was chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne from 1970, the NDR Orchestra of Hanover, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in 1986, then the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra until 1995, the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra from 1993, and finally the Czech Philharmonic from 2003 to 2007. He conducted all major orchestras of the world and was prolific in recording. One focus of his broad repertoire was Czech music, including contemporary music. Biography Mácal was born in Brno and began violin lessons with his father at the age of four. He later attended the Brno Conservatory and the Janáček Academy of Music and Performing Arts, where he graduated in 1960 with top honors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Classic Produktion Osnabrück
Classic Produktion Osnabrück (often referred to as cpo, in lowercase) is a record label founded in 1986 by Georg Ortmann and several others. Its declared mission is to fill niches in the recorded classical repertory, with an emphasis on romantic, late romantic, and 20th-century music. The label also aims to release complete cycles of recordings, such as complete sets of symphonies, concertos, chamber music, and so forth. It is the house label of online retailer jpc. Recordings Recordings issued by cpo include: *Concertos, suites, cantates, and chamber music by Georg Philipp Telemann *The complete orchestral works and string quartets of Paul Hindemith *The complete string quartets of Mieczysław Weinberg *The complete orchestral works of Erich Wolfgang Korngold *The orchestral works of Hans Pfitzner (and a substantial amount of his chamber works as well) *The symphonies and string quartets of Benjamin Frankel *The symphonies and orchestral works of Théodore Gouvy *The symp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Manze
Andrew Manze (born 14 January 1965) is a British conductor and violinist, noted for his interpretation of Baroque violin music. Biography Born in Beckenham in Kent, England, Manze read Classics at Clare College, Cambridge. He studied violin and worked with Ton Koopman, his director in the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, and with Simon Standage, his teacher in the Royal Academy of Music. He began his musical career as a specialist in Early Music, and has recorded as a soloist for such labels as Harmonia Mundi. He became associate director of the Academy of Ancient Music in 1996. From 2003 to 2007, Manze was artistic director of The English Concert, with whom he recorded commercially for Harmonia Mundi. He has also conducted recordings on labels such as Onyx and Pentatone. Manze was associate guest conductor of the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra (BBC SSO) from September 2010 to August 2014, and recorded with the BBC SSO for Hyperion. Outside the UK, from 2006 to 201 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernhard Klee
Bernhard Klee (born 19 April 1936) is a German conductor, originally from Schleiz, in Thuringia. He studied piano with Else Schmitz-Gohr. Trained as a member of the Thomanerchor, he has since conducted many of Europe's most prestigious orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic and State Philharmonic of Rheinland-Palatinate. He was married to the Swiss soprano Edith Mathis Edith Mathis (; 11 February 19389 February 2025) was a Swiss soprano known for her roles in List of operas by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Mozart's operas. Early in her career, Cherubino in ''Le nozze di Figaro'' was her signature role that she perf .... References German male conductors (music) People from Schleiz 1936 births Living people 20th-century German conductors (music) 21st-century German conductors (music) 20th-century German male musicians 21st-century German male musicians {{Germany-conductor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen
The State Radio House of Lower Saxony () is a group of buildings owned by the public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk in Hanover, the state capital of Lower Saxony, Germany. The broadcaster is based in Hamburg, but has facilities in the capitals of other states that it serves. The building group is situated at the on the eastern shore of the Maschsee. When it was built in 1949–1952, it was known as the Hanover Radio House (). In addition to administrative buildings and an antenna tower, it includes two halls for public concerts: the large broadcasting hall () opened in 1963, and the small broadcasting hall (). History The history of broadcasting in Hanover dates back to 1924 when the first radio programs were aired from a factory building of the engineering firm Hanomag. After World War II, that building was in the British zone. A new office () was opened in the in 1945, and first concerts were aired from buildings of the (school of education). Regular broadcasting, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
