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| | Bayerischer Rundfunk Orchester (Symphony Orchestra & Choir) - Short History |
 | | On July 1, 1949 Eugen Jochum was selected to the principal conductor of the Bayerischer Rundfunk Symphonieorchester (= BRSO) (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra). |
 | | Important conductors were and are to guest at the desk of the BRSO: Igor Markevitch, Clemens Krauss, Ernest Ansermet, Charles Munch, Ferenc Fricsay, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Kleiber, Hermann Scherchen, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Ormandy, Karl Böhm, Carl Schuricht, Erich Leinsdorf, Claudio Abbado, Seiji Ozawa, Bernard Haitink, Günter Wand, Zubin Mehta and again and again Leonard Bernstein. |
 | | The BRSO co-operated in recent time among other things with the conductors Kurt Sanderling, Sir George Solti, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti and Wolfgang Sawallisch as well as with renowned soloists, such as Gerhard Oppitz, Maxim Vengerov, James Galway and Mstislaw Rostropovitch. |
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