BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA巴伐利亚广播交响乐团Soon after it was founded by Eugen Jochum in 1949, the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks developed into an internationally renowned orchestra, its fame ongoingly expanded and fortified by its intensive touring activities. The orchestra owes its extraordinarily wideranging repertoire and sound spectrum to the program preferences of its previous chief conductors as well as to the great flexibility and solid stylistic security of each individual musician.Fostering new music has an especially long tradition at the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks with appearances in conjunction with the musica viva series, founded in 1945 by Karl Amadeus Hartmann, as one of the orchestras main assignments right from the start. At these concerts, Munich audiences have witnessed legendary performances of contemporary works at which the composers themselves generally stood on the podium of the orchestra. These included Igor Stravinsky, Darius Milhaud, Paul Hindemith, Pierre Boulez, as well as, more recently, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, Luciano Berio and Peter Etvs.Over the past few years, the Symphonieorchester has also pursued new approaches to early music and now collaborates regularly with such experts in historical performance practice as Thomas Hengelbrock, Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Ton Koopman.Many renowned guest conductors, such as Clemens Krauss, Erich and Carlos Kleiber, Charles Munch, Ferenc Fricsay, Otto Klemperer, Karl Bhm, Gnter Wand, Sir Georg Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Kurt Sanderling and Wolfgang Sawallisch have left indelible imprints on the Symphonieorchester in the past. Today Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Muti, Esa-Pekka Salonen, FranzWelser-Mst and Daniel Harding number amongst the significant partners who regularly mount the podium in Munich. The Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks was also the only German orchestra with which Leonard Bernstein regularly collaborated for many years. An especially close artistic friendship came about, to which the Munich audience owes incomparable concert experiences, such as the legendary concert performance of Wagners “Tristan und Isolde” in 1981. In 1989 Bernstein, the Chor and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks altered the text of Schillers “Ode to Joy” from “Freude” (“joy”) to “Freiheit” (“freedom”) when they performed Beethovens 9th Symphony to mark the fall of the Wall between East and West Berlin.Besides the many performances and recordings in Munich and other cities in the stations broadcast range, extensive concert tours are today central components in the everyday life of the orchestra. Tours have taken the orchestra to virtually every European country, to Asia as well as to North and South America. It makes regular appearances in New Yorks Carnegie Hall and in the renowned concert halls in Japans musical capitals. Among the special appearances outside Germany during the 2008/2009 are concerts in the Golden Hall of the Vienna Musikverein, at the Royal Festival Hall in London, at the Thtre des Champs-lyses in Paris, an additional American and Eastern European tour with performances in Zagreb, Sofia, Moscow and St. Petersburg. Since 2004, the Symphonieorchester under the direction of its current Chief Conductor, Mariss Jansons, is additionally the orchestra in residence at the Easter Festival in Lucerne.A further special feature is the encouragement of up-and-coming young musicians. In conjunction with the ARD International Music Competition, the Symphonieorchester accompanies young musicians both in the final rounds as well as in the symphonic closing concert featuring the prize winners. Since October of 2001 the Academy of the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks has been doing valuable educational work by preparing young musicians for their later careers and thus building a solid bridge between education and professional activity. Beyond this, the Symphonieorchester maintains an encouragement program for young people called CONTAKT with many activities designed toward the worthy goal of bringing the younger generation closer together with classical music.The history of the Symphonieorchester is closely intertwined with the names of its previous chief conductors, who were always concurrently chief conductors of the Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks.The founder, Eugen Jochum, led the orchestra for eleven years (from 1949 to 1960.) He built up the orchestra completely with top-grade musicians and established its world-wide reputation on its initial foreign tours. Munich audiences have him to thank for incomparable interpretations of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner. Besides Bruckner Eugen Jochum devoted special attention to the performance of sacred music, and also made regular appearances on the podium of musica viva.Rafael Kubelk, who headed the orchestra for eighteen years (1961 to 1979), and beyond th