| Rundfunkchor Berlin | |
|---|---|
| Choir | |
| Origin | Berlin, Germany |
| Founded | 1925 |
| Genre | Professional mixed choir |
The Rundfunkchor Berlin (Berlin Radio Choir) is a professional German classical choir founded in 1925.
In the 1950s the choir was divided into the Berliner Solistenvereinigung and the Großer Chor des Berliner Rundfunks. These were united as Rundfunkchor Berlin in 1973. [1] [2]
The choir is one of four professional bodies under administration of Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin, founded in 1994 and jointly owned by Deutschlandradio (40%), Bundesrepublik Deutschland (35%) and Land Berlin (20%): Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin (RSB) founded 1925 continuing in East Berlin, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, founded 1946 in West-Berlin as the RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester (RSO), the Rundfunkchor Berlin, and the RIAS Kammerchor founded 1948 in West-Berlin.
Deutschlandradio is a national German public radio broadcaster. It operates four national networks:
The Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin (DSO) is a German 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 RIAS Kammerchor is a German choir based in Berlin, Germany. It receives support from the Rundfunk Orchester und Chöre GmbH Berlin, a limited-liability company owned by the public broadcasters Deutschlandradio (40%) and RBB (5%), the German Federal Republic (35%), and the State of Berlin (20%).
For PENTATONE, the choir has recorded ten operas of Richard Wagner, the F-minor mass by Anton Bruckner and Die Tageszeiten by Richard Strauss.
Pentatone is a Dutch classical music label located in Baarn, Netherlands. The label focuses on production of high-end, 5-channel surround sound recordings.
Wilhelm Richard Wagner was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas. Unlike most opera composers, Wagner wrote both the libretto and the music for each of his stage works. Initially establishing his reputation as a composer of works in the romantic vein of Carl Maria von Weber and Giacomo Meyerbeer, Wagner revolutionised opera through his concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk, by which he sought to synthesise the poetic, visual, musical and dramatic arts, with music subsidiary to drama. He described this vision in a series of essays published between 1849 and 1852. Wagner realised these ideas most fully in the first half of the four-opera cycle Der Ring des Nibelungen.
Josef Anton Bruckner was an Austrian composer, organist, and music theorist best known for his symphonies, masses, Te Deum and motets. The first are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner's compositions helped to define contemporary musical radicalism, owing to their dissonances, unprepared modulations, and roving harmonies.
