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After World War II - and after smashing the centralistic realm broadcast - winner powers implemented their conceptions of a Federal Democratic broadcast system. Consequence from it was into itself the even constituent German Lands of the Federal Republic a mental-cultural departure tendency, to which at the again created broadcasting corporations the emergence of the symphony orchestras is to be owed: in Hamburg, Cologne, Frankfurt/Main, Stuttgart, Saarbruecken, Baden-Baden and Munich.
On July 1, 1949 Eugen Jochum was selected to the principal conductor of the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester (= BRSO) (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra). He structured it as a ‘orchestra of the soloists’, by engaging for example the Köckert quartet for the first string stands. With these top management he formed an elite orchestra, which acquired itself fast international fame in the area of the Classical and Romantic periods, here particularly with Bruckner’s symphonies. Two emphasis determines to today the work of this orchestra: on the one hand the public symphonic concerts among the principal conductor and important guest conductors, on the other hand by Karl Amadeus Hartmann based Musica Viva, in their framework the long time from the concert programs eliminated new music usually under the reinforcement with rods of the composers themselves one specified: Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud and Paul Hindemith were at the desk of the orchestra. Among the composers, who led the symphony orchestra, ranks also Richard Strauss, which operated briefly before its death still with that even created ochestra. - starting from the season 1998-1999 Udo Carpenter is responsible as a new artistic conductor for the conception Musica Viva.
To eleven years was Eugen Jochum as a principal conductor at the disposal, then he left Munich and went to Amsterdam. Up to its death in the year 1987 it remained for the orchestra however connected as a guest conductor closely. Its successor became Rafael Kubelik, which held now 18 years to 1979 the chief position. Kubelik started up the first meal he cycle, which was brought in on disk. It extended the repertoire of the orchestra with works of slawischer composers - Smetana, Dvorák, Janácek - and put further special weight on works of the 20th Century: Thus he specified compositions neglected for a long time, like Leos Janácek Aus einem Totenhaus, Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurrelieder, Hans Pfitzner’s Palestrina, Paul Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler, Arthur Honegger's Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher, Claude Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande and Carl Orff’s Prometheus.
Important conductors were and are to guest at the desk of the BRSO: Igor Markevitch, Clemens Krauss, Ernest Ansermet, Charles Munch, Ferenc Fricsay, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Hermann Scherchen, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Ormandy, Karl Böhm, Carl Schuricht, Erich Leinsdorf, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Günter Wand, Zubin Mehta and again and again Leonard Bernstein. The latter directed the orchestra regularly up to its death in the year 1990, and provided for lasting concert experiences in Munich. One of most look up-exciting productions with him was Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde (1981).
For health reasons Rafael Kubelik 1979 gave up his activity as a principal conductor, however he accompanied the symphony orchestra for further six years as a guest conductor. Kyrill Kondrachin was designated as new boss and Kubelik’s successor. But before he could begin this office, he died unexpectedly 1981 in Amsterdam.
After a phase of the look-up one found only a new principal conductor to 1983: Sir Colin Davis. With Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis imagined Colin Davis in Munich, and this was also the work, with which he terminated 1992 his activity as a boss. Certainly he is further gladly-seen guest at the conductor desk of the orchestra. Apart from the Viennese classical period the British moved above all the works of Hector Berlioz and his French composer colleagues as well as the newer English modern composers (Edward Elgar, Michael Tippett, Ralph Vaughan Williams) into the foreground and compiled with the orchestra thereby a quite new repertoire.
Since beginning of the season 1993-1994 Lorin Maazel is principal conductor of the BR-Symphony orchestra, with which he made guest appearances several times in European countries, in addition, in Japan and China. In the season 1996/97 among other things the premiere of Penderecki’s monumental work The Seven Gates of Jerusalem on the occasion of the 3000-Years Anniversary of the city Jerusalem as well as concerts were in the New York’s Carnegie Hall on the program.
Among the outstanding Munich projects under the direction of Lorin Maazel - apart from the performance of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde for the reopening of the Prince Regent Theatre in November 1996 - not least the Beethoven cycle in the Herkulessaal of the Residence (1995) and the open air concerts at the king workstation ranked. The BRSO co-operated in recent time among other things with the conductors Kurt Sanderling, Sir George Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch as well as with renowned soloists, such as Gerhard Oppitz, Maxim Vengerov, James Galway and Mstislaw Rostropovitch. Its functions cover appearances in the transmission area of the Bavarian broadcast apart from accommodations and concerts in Munich. The BRSO can also be regularly heard at Regensburger Spring, at the Summer Concerts between Danube and Altmühl, at the Kissinger Summer, and at the Richard Strauss Days. |
