Don’t miss: RadiRo Festival Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra

On September 24-25, classics music lovers will have the opportunity to see and hear twice the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra under the wand of Stéphane Denève.

According to the official page of the festival, the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra owes its existence to the American military government that occupied post-war Stuttgart in 1945. Requiring an orchestra for Radio Stuttgart, the temporary government gave birth to what would quickly become one of the finest ensembles in Germany, hosting such conductors as Barbirolli, Böhm, Leinsdorf, Stokowski and Furtwängler. The group’s reputation was solidified in 1971 with the appointment of the legendary Sergiu Celibidache as chief conductor, and has continued to grow in more recent years under the guidance of Sir Neville Marriner and Gianluigi Gelmetti. From 1998 to 2011, Sir Roger Norrington was the Principal Conductor of the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, and managed to give the orchestra a quite unmistakable profile by combining historically authentic performing practice with the means available to a modern symphony orchestra – the result of this synthesis has been hailed by critics as the “Stuttgart Sound”. From the start of the 2011/12 season Stéphane Denève has been appointed SRSO’s chief conductor.

Wednesday, September 24

STUTTGART RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor: STÉPHANE DENÈVE

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Soloist: RUXANDRA DONOSE – mezzo-soprano

Programme:

R. Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20

M. Ravel: Shéhérazade, song cycle for soprano and orchestra

R. Strauss: Tod und Verklärung, Op. 24

M. Ravel: La Valse

Thursday, September 25

STUTTGART RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Conductor: STÉPHANE DENÈVE

Soloist: NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER – violin

Programme:

B. Bartók: Violin Concerto No. 2, BB 117

J. Brahms: Symphony No. 4 in E minor, Op. 98

Between September 20 – 27, Bucharest will be endowed once again with the enthralling fervour and artistic vigour of a vivid European capital at the 2nd edition of RadiRo – Radio Orchestras International Festival. For an entire week, at the end of September, the concert hall and the ‘sound podium’ will join together at the RadiRo Festival, a unique musical event in Europe, which will bring in Bucharest five radio orchestras, along with internationally renowned soloists and conductors.

Oana Vasiliu