Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra

Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30, TrV 176 (Live) (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 34:45 minutes | 360 MB | Genre: Classical
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It was as an obedient pupil of his father, the celebrated horn player Franz Strauss, that Richard Strauss began his musical career – entirely in the spirit of the classics and early Romantics, with proven forms and traditional genres. Strauss senior loathed Richard Wagner’s monstrous music dramas as well as the achievements of the “New German School” around Franz Liszt, with its avant-garde tone poems and extra-musical programmes. As Richard grew up, he shared his father’s views unquestioningly – but then found a mentor in Hans von Bülow, who, of all people, had once worked together very closely with Wagner. In 1885, Bülow engaged the 21-year-old Strauss as conductor of the Meiningen Court Orchestra. Its concert master, the radical Wagnerian Alexander Ritter, took the young man under his wing and acquainted him with the blessings of “progressive music” – with the result that Richard Strauss soon began composing symphonic poems himself.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky & Varèse: Orchestral Works (Live) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 01:10:04 minutes | 711 MB | Genre: Classical
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From 2003 to 2019, Mariss Jansons was chief conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and the Bavarian Radio Chorus. His death on December 1, 2019 marked the end of an era. As a conductor, Mariss Jansons was appreciated by the musicians of his orchestra and chorus like no other, he was loved by his Munich audience, and revered by his fans in international concert halls from Tokyo to New York. To create a place for everyone who wants to remember individual concerts or tours during his time as the principal conductor of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, there is now a timeline on the orchestra’s website. All the concerts since his inaugural one in Munich on October 23, 2003 can be found there. In addition to documentation of programmes and line-ups, selected concerts are accompanied by image galleries, concert videos, backstage material and excerpts from interviews or rehearsals from the archives of BR-KLASSIK and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. These archives are continually being extended, so the timeline is worth visiting again and again. We hope that this “virtual collection of memories” will give Jansons fans all over the world pleasure in browsing and remembering.
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Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Mariss Jansons – Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 (Rehearsal Excerpts) (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/48 kHz | Time – 53:53 minutes | 552 MB | Genre: Classical
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Mariss Jansons rehearses Ludwig van Beethoven´s Symphony No. 5 with the BRSO.
Making the music speak – that is the goal of Mariss Jansons’ rehearsal work with the BRSO. In May 2012 he rehearsed Beethoven’s Fifth; in the autumn of that year, a performance of it in Tokyo earned standing ovations from the Japanese audience.
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