A radio orchestra (or broadcast orchestra ) is an orchestra employed by a radio network (and sometimes television networks ) in order to provide programming as well as sometimes perform incidental or theme music for various shows on the network. In the heyday of radio such orchestras were numerous, performing classical, popular, light music and jazz. However, in recent decades, broadcast orchestras have become increasingly rare. Those that still exist perform mainly classical and contemporary orchestral music, though broadcast light music orchestras, jazz orchestras and big bands are still employed by some radio stations in Europe.
32-740: The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) is a German broadcast orchestra based in Berlin . The orchestra performs its concerts principally in the Philharmonie Berlin . The orchestra is administratively based at the Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (RBB) Fernsehzentrum in Berlin. The orchestra was founded in 1946 by American occupation forces as the RIAS Symphonie-Orchester (RIAS, Rundfunk im amerikanischen Sektor / "Radio In
64-792: A Big Band in Frankfurt and the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. The British Broadcasting Corporation operates five full-time permanent orchestras, as well as a full-time chamber choir, the BBC Singers and the BBC Big Band . Denmark also maintains orchestra in the form of the Danish National Symphony Orchestra , the Danish Radio Big Band , Chamber Orchestra and Radio Choir. In Norway NRK runs
96-610: A contract of 4 years. Sokhiev concluded his DSO-Berlin tenure after the 2015–2016 season. In October 2014, Robin Ticciati made his first guest-conducting appearance with the DSO-Berlin. In October 2015, the orchestra named Ticciati its next principal conductor, effective with the 2017–2018 season, with an initial contract of 5 years. In September 2020, the DSO Berlin announced the extension of Ticciati's contract through 2027. In March 2023,
128-401: A joint operation, from 1 April 1956 under the name Nord- und Westdeutsche Rundfunkverband (North and West German Broadcasting Federation – NWRV). NDR and WDR launched separate television services for their respective areas in 1961. On 1 December 1956 NDR started its third radio channel, NDR3 (from 1962 to 1973, it was operated jointly with Sender Freies Berlin ). In 1958 Han Koller became
160-572: A news report indicated that Ticciati is to stand down as principal conductor of the orchestra in 2025, two years ahead of his previously announced contract extension. The DSO-Berlin has recorded commercially for such labels as Deutsche Grammophon, Sony Classical and Harmonia Mundi. In 2011, the orchestra won a Grammy Award for its recording of Kaija Saariaho's L'amour de loin , conducted by Kent Nagano. [REDACTED] Media related to Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin at Wikimedia Commons Radio orchestra Famous broadcast orchestras include
192-579: A regional station for the north, NWDR Nord (later to become NDR2), and a regional station for the west, NWDR West (later WDR2). That same year, NWDR became a founding member of ARD , a joint organisation of all German regional broadcasters. The NWDR also played a founding role in launching 625-line television in Germany, starting broadcasts on 25 December 1952. In February 1955, North Rhine-Westphalia decided to establish its broadcaster, whilst Hamburg , Lower Saxony and Schleswig-Holstein continued with
224-515: A separate TV channel for Berlin in 1992, called B1, later SFB1, now RBB Fernsehen . In 1977, Gerhard Stoltenberg , the minister-president of Schleswig-Holstein unilaterally cancelled the NDR-Staatsvertrag , the governing contract of NDR. This caused a discussion on how to organise broadcasting in the North German region. In 1980, NDR signed a new contract with the three Länder, changing
256-592: A threatened reduction in the size of the orchestra, in March 2009, Metzmacher announced his early resignation from the DSO-Berlin principal conductorship as of the summer of 2010. His final concerts as the orchestra's principal conductor were in June 2010 in Berlin and in August 2010 at The Proms . In September 2010, the DSO-Berlin announced the appointment of Tugan Sokhiev as its Principal Conductor and Artistic Director, as of 2012, with
288-930: A year. In the Netherlands, the Muziekcentrum van de Omroep ( Broadcasting Music Centre ), an umbrella organization of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting associations, supports the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest , the Radio Kamer Filharmonie , the Groot Omroepkoor ( Netherlands Radio Choir ), and the Metropole Orkest , the world's largest professional pop and jazz orchestra. The last surviving broadcast orchestra in North America
320-673: Is a public radio and television broadcaster , based in Hamburg . In addition to the city-state of Hamburg, NDR broadcasts for the German states of Lower Saxony , Mecklenburg-Vorpommern and Schleswig-Holstein . NDR is a member of the ARD organisation. In 1924 broadcasting began in Hamburg, when Norddeutsche Rundfunk AG (NORAG) was created. In 1934 it was incorporated into the Großdeutscher Rundfunk ,
352-452: Is in part funded by the limited sale of on-air commercial advertising time; however, its principal source of income is the revenue derived from viewer and listener licence fees . As of August 2021, the monthly fee due from each household for radio and television reception was €18.36. These fees are collected not directly by NDR but by a joint agency of ARD (and its member institutions), ZDF , and Deutschlandradio . NDR currently provides
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#1733093301723384-835: The Late Show with David Letterman whimsically called itself the CBS Orchestra though it was not a classical musical orchestra and did not perform on CBS outside of the Late Show . The last permanent studio orchestra in America was The Tonight Show Band , also known as the NBC Orchestra, a big band led by trumpeter Doc Severinsen . Norddeutscher Rundfunk Norddeutscher Rundfunk ( pronounced [ˈnɔʁtˌdɔʏtʃɐ ˈʁʊntfʊŋk] ; "Northern German Broadcasting"), commonly shortened to NDR ( pronounced [ˌɛndeːˈʔɛʁ] ),
416-487: The British Zone of occupied Germany, the military authorities quickly established Radio Hamburg to provide information to the population of the area. The British Control Commission appointed Hugh Greene to manage the creation of public service broadcasting in their Zone. On 22 September 1945, Radio Hamburg became Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (North-Western German Broadcasting), the single broadcasting organisation of
448-478: The Kuhn Brothers and Barney Wilen . Some of these have been released since 1987, while the older ones only exist as rare bootlegs , sought after by many Jazz aficionados. On 4 January 1965 NDR, Radio Bremen and Sender Freies Berlin (SFB) began a joint "third channel" television service, Norddeutsches Fernsehen , later Nord 3 and N3 . Since December 2001, this service is called NDR Fernsehen . SFB started
480-900: The NBC Symphony Orchestra (1937–1954) conducted by Arturo Toscanini , the five orchestras maintained by the BBC , particularly the BBC Symphony Orchestra founded in 1930, the MDR Symphony Orchestra founded in 1923, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra founded in 1949, the Tokyo-based NHK Symphony Orchestra , the Danish National Symphony Orchestra founded in 1925, the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra founded in 1969 and
512-487: The Norwegian Radio Orchestra (Norwegian, Kringkastingsorkestret, abbreviated as KORK). The orchestra specializes in classical music as well as popular music. This makes it quite unique in that the musicians are trained both classically and rhythmically to a high degree. The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Stavanger Symphony Orchestra also have agreements with NRK too make a number of broadcast recordings
544-604: The Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra of Moscow Radio (formerly the USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra among other names) founded in 1930. Germany has an especially large number of radio orchestras. Eleven radio orchestras perform and produce classical as well as contemporary music and jazz for the North German Broadcasting ( NDR ) with two orchestras in Hamburg and Hanover as well as
576-634: The American Sector"). It was also known as the American Sector Symphony Orchestra. The orchestra's first principal conductor was Ferenc Fricsay . In 1956 it was renamed the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra ( Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin ), and in 1993 took on its present name. Between the chief conductorships of Lorin Maazel and Riccardo Chailly , the orchestra did not have a single chief conductor. The major conductors who worked with
608-880: The British Zone. The state of Bremen , while surrounded by the British Zone, was given to the United States as part of the American Zone . A separate broadcaster was established for this state, Radio Bremen . However, Radio Bremen and NDR cooperate in certain programmes and stations. In 1948, the Control Commission transferred the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR) to the control of the constituent Länder ( Hamburg , Lower Saxony , North Rhine-Westphalia and Schleswig-Holstein ). At first, NWDR had just one radio station, later known as NWDR1. In 1950, it introduced
640-878: The NDR Big Band. West German Broadcasting ( WDR ) has two orchestras in Cologne and a Big Band, Southwest German Broadcasting ( SWR ) with one orchestra (2016 merged) and the SWR Big Band in Stuttgart and Baden-Baden/Freiburg, Bavarian Broadcasting ( BR ) with two orchestras in Munich, Central German Broadcasting ( MDR ) with one orchestra in Leipzig, Saarland Broadcasting ( SR ) with one orchestra (2006 merged) in Saarbrücken/Kaiserslautern, Hessian Broadcasting ( HR ) with one orchestra and
672-549: The Radio Bremen area under the title Radio Bremen Text . On 1 April 1989, NDR introduced its fourth radio service, NDR4. This service was later renamed NDR4 Info and since 2 June 2002 has been known as NDR Info . The station is a news and information service for the whole NDR region. On 1 January 1992, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in former East Germany joined NDR as the fourth state in the organisation, where it replaced Fernsehen der DDR and Rundfunk der DDR . The area receives
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#1733093301723704-513: The existing joint system. To this end, the NWDR was split into two broadcasters, Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR) in the north and Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) in North Rhine-Westphalia. NDR continued to operate out of Hamburg. The split was effective from 1 January 1956, although the radio station NWDR1 remained a joint operation with regional opt-outs. The NWDR television service also remained
736-604: The main NDR radio and television stations, plus the regional NDR 1 Radio mV , which has subregions based in Schwerin, Rostock, Neubrandenburg and Greifswald. In October of the same year, SFB in Berlin stopped relaying the Nord 3 television service in favour of its own Berlin 1 TV channel. On 4 April 1994, NDR introduced N-Joy Radio (known simply as N-Joy since 2001), a radio station aimed at 14 to 29-year-old listeners. On 3 October 1997, NDR3
768-490: The musical director of Hamburg's NDR Jazz Workshop , which became a popular radio broadcast. Numerous names in Jazz performed on these broadcasts including; Dave Brubeck , Kenny Clarke , Lucky Thompson , Wes Montgomery , Johnny Griffin , Oscar Peterson , Ben Webster , Sahib Shihab , Carmell Jones , Lee Konitz , Cecil Payne , Slide Hampton , Phil Woods , Jazz Composers Orchestra , Howard Riley , Barry Guy , John Surman ,
800-559: The national broadcaster controlled by Joseph Goebbels 's Propagandaministerium , as Reichssender Hamburg . In 1930, NORAG commissioned the Welte-Funkorgel – a large theatre organ custom-built by the firm of M. Welte & Sons to meet the specific acoustic requirements of radio broadcasting – and installed it in their radio studio (today the world's oldest such facility still in use) on Rothenbaumchaussee 132, Hamburg, where it continues to be played, now maintained by volunteers. In
832-422: The orchestra during this period, from 1976 to 1982, were Erich Leinsdorf , Eugen Jochum , Gerd Albrecht , Gennady Rozhdestvensky and Neville Marriner . The orchestra returned to having a single chief conductor in 1982 with Riccardo Chailly . Ingo Metzmacher became principal conductor as of the 2007–2008 season, with an original initial contract until 2011. However, after reports of disputes over financing and
864-499: The pattern of broadcasting and creating new regional services. NDR1 was divided into three independent radio stations from 2 January 1981: NDR2 and NDR3 (now NDR Kultur) continued as regional stations. These regional services were further subdivided with opt-outs for specific areas. NDR 1 Niedersachsen established regions based around Oldenburg-Ostfriesland-Bremen-Cuxhaven, Osnabrück-Emsland, greater Hanover, Braunschweig-southern Lower Saxony and northern Lower Saxony. NDR 1 Welle Nord
896-542: The service remains with Radio Bremen. As the organization responsible within the ARD consortium of German public-service broadcasters for overseeing the country's participation in the Eurovision Song Contest , NDR staged the 56th annual contest which was held in Düsseldorf on 10–14 May 2011, outside their broadcasting area. NDR's studios in Hamburg are in two locations, both within the borough of Eimsbüttel :
928-627: The television studios are in the quarter of Lokstedt while the radio studios are in the quarter of Harvestehude (though they are called "Funkhaus am Rothenbaum"), a little closer to the city centre. There are also regional studios, having both radio and television production facilities, in the state capitals Hanover , Kiel and Schwerin . The facility in Hanover is now called the Landesfunkhaus Niedersachsen . In addition, NDR maintains facilities at ARD 's national studios in Berlin . NDR
960-491: Was relaunched as Radio 3 , produced in co-operation with Ostdeutscher Rundfunk Brandenburg. At the end of 2000, SFB joined Radio 3. This arrangement lasted until ORB and SFB merged on 1 January 2003 and started its own classical and cultural network. NDR3 became NDR Kultur on 1 January 2003. On 1 November 2001, NDR and Radio Bremen launched a joint radio station, Nordwestradio , to serve Bremen and northwestern Lower Saxony. This service replaced Radio Bremen 2 and control of
992-492: Was subdivided with studio centres in Flensburg, Heide, Norderstedt, Lübeck and Kiel. Roughly around 1983–1984, The Most Mysterious Song On The Internet (now known as "Subways of Your Mind") was recorded from NDR2. On 30 September 1988 NDR introduced a Teletext service on its N3 television channel. Originally called Nordtext , it became NDR Text on 2 December 2001. The Teletext service also offers information for viewers in
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1024-784: Was the CBC Radio Orchestra founded in 1938. On March 28, 2008 the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation announced that the orchestra would be dissolved at the end of November. The ensemble has continued independent of network affiliation as the National Broadcast Orchestra based in Vancouver. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in Australia operates six state radio symphony orchestras through its subdivision Symphony Australia . The house band for
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