Gamelan Br. Teges Kanginan

The Symphony No. 5, which came about over a very short time period some twelve years after beginning his career, today one of Tchaikovskys most popular works. As early as the world première in St. Petersburg it was already a great public success. More feeling, more emotion and more drama could hardly be converted into symphonic music; however a superior compositional technique and a ongoingly consummate command of structure keeps the work from ever slipping into superficial mawkishness.

Mariss Jansons Jansons’s earliest memories were of his father, the conductor Arvid Jansons, conducting opera and ballet: ‘As a very small boy, three years old, I was always observing… I went to my father’s rehearsals. When I came home, I put my book on the table and started to conduct. I changed my trousers because they were for rehearsal, not for concert. I played at being artistic director, drawing up programmes for subscription seasons.’ He learned to play the violin in Riga, and in 1957 entered the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied conducting with Rabinovich, as well as the piano and violin.

The Munich Radio Orchestra (German: Münchener Rundfunkorchester) is associated with Germany's Bavarian Radio public broadcaster, but should not be confused with the network's other orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks), which is devoted to mainstream symphonic repertory.

Mariss Jansons ranks among the outstanding podium personalities of our time. His orchestral work is recognized not only because of his busy touring activities but also because of television and radio broadcasts world-wide, also documented by a sizable number of recordings.

"Increasingly, Shostakovich's music is captivating people all over the world and appealing to their deepest emotions. Almost like no other, it bears witness to a traumatic political epoch while remaining a timeless expression of existential human feeling and experience. For me personally", said conductor Mariss Jansons, who died two years ago, "Shostakovich is one of the most serious and sincere composers of them all".

Wolfgang Rihm is one of the most important contemporary composers of our time.

On the occasion of the 85th birthday of Arvo Pärt (September 2020) and the 75th anniversary of the Bavarian Radio Chorus (May 2021). The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, born in 1935, has succeeded in bringing sacred music back to a broader audience, and away from the confines of the church service, more than almost any other contemporary composer. The meditative character of his works, and his return to the simplest and most basic musical forms, convey moments of intense spirituality. Before his emigration from the Soviet Union, Pärt had already invented what he termed the tintinnabuli style of composition (from the Latin word for a bell).

"Le miroir de Jesus' (The Mirror of Jesus) for mezzo-soprano, women's choir, strings and harp, the last major work composed by the French composer Andre Caplet in the spring and summer of 1923 and based on fifteen poems by the French writer Henri Gheon, was subtitled 'Mysteres du rosaire' (Mysteries of the Rosary).

29. Oktober 1923 – ein geschichtsträchtiges Datum. Inmitten des politischen wie wirtschaftlichen Krisenjahres wurde in der Dachkammer eines Bürogebäudes am Potsdamer Platz mit der ersten Sendung der »Berliner Funkstunde« das Zeitalter des öffentlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland eingeläutet. – Für die Produktion und Rezeption von Musik bot der Rundfunk ganz neue Möglichkeiten. Die auf der vorliegenden CD versammelten Komponisten profitierten nicht nur von diesen Entwicklungen, sondern gestalteten sie zum Teil auch aktiv mit.

The Munich Radio Orchestra (German: Münchener Rundfunkorchester) is associated with Germany's Bavarian Radio public broadcaster, but should not be confused with the network's other orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks), which is devoted to mainstream symphonic repertory. The Munich Radio Orchestra has specialized in light music, adding forays into Italian opera, contemporary sacred music, and even – in its frequent concerts in Munich – jazz and video game music, the latter perhaps designed for the orchestra's extensive youth activities.