To this day, for any choir, Bach’s motets represent a special artistic and interpretive challenge. The Bavarian Radio Chorus under its artistic director Howard Arman has now recorded a selection of Bach’s most famous motets.
150 years after the composer’s death the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Munich Radio Orchestra under the direction of Howard Arman present a recording of Gioachino Rossinis “Stabat mater”.
Maestro Jansons has extended his contract with the Bavarian Radio and will remain Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus through the 2023/2024 season.
In recent years this composer-conductor has often performed his own works with the BR Chorus, opening the ears of audiences and singers alike to music that is anything but commonplace. In their ideas and sounds his words venture not only into the world of distant cultures and regions but into great literature and world religions.
Giovanni Antonini, the Bavarian Radio Chor and Symphony Orchestra present great works by Johann Sebastian and Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach.
A “felicitous symbiosis”: that’s what broadcasting director Martin Wagner called his working relationship with Howard Arman and the BR Chorus. With those two words he summed up the general mood to a tee – reason enough to join Howard Arman in celebrating the extension of his contract to 2021!
In honor of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday, the Chorus and Klaas Stok presented a programme of music by American composers who were his companions, friends and “heirs”, as well as two famous choral works by Bernstein himself.
A family matter: The Mozart composers. Howard Arman combines works by Leopold and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on the programme of the concerts on 13 and 14 April 2018. The concert of 14 April is available as video on demand.
Howard Arman and the Bavarian Radio Chorus present great vocal art and a fine sense of sound – full of Italianità! On the programme: “Quattro pezzi sacri” by Verdi and “Stabat mater” by Rossini. With soloists Rosa Feola, Gerhild Romberger, Dmitry Korchak and Mika Kares.
Two large symphonic works by the Russian composer Sergei Rachmaninov can be experienced on a CD from BR-KLASSIK. It offers a live recording of “The Bells” and “Symphonic Dances” with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks and Mariss Jansons. Live recordings of concerts in Munich, January 2016 and January 2017.
An exciting combination of four large psalms with soloists, choir and orchestra, and the famous prayer “Give us Thy blessed peace” by Martin Luther. The Bavarian Radio Chorus and renowned soloists present Mendelssohn’s masterpieces under the direction of Howard Arman in an impressively clear interpretation with finely tuned sound.
The Mass in B minor, one of the greatest musical legacies of Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750), is presented by the Bavarian Radio Chorus. This live recording features renowned soloists and the Concerto Köln, a longtime instrumental partner of the Chorus for historically informed performances.
Recent concert videos and audio recordings, musical films, rehearsal footage and interviews with conductors – in our media library, you will find a wide array of choral music and behind the scenes material.
On our Facebook page, we provide you with information about ongoing concert programming and media coverage of the Bavarian Radio Chorus – and we take you behind the scenes of rehearsals and on tour.
The Bavarian Radio Chorus was founded in 1946. Thanks to its remarkable stylistic versatility, this ensemble enjoys the highest regard world-wide.
Since 2003, Mariss Jansons has served as the Chief Conductor of the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, supplemented by Howard Arman, who was appointed Artistic Director of the chorus in 2016.
Guest appearances have taken the chorus to Japan as well as to such top European festivals as the ones in Lucerne and Salzburg. Major European orchestras like the Berliner Philharmoniker, the Concertgebouworkest in Amsterdam and the Sächsische Staatskapelle in Dresden hold their collaborations with the BR-Chor in high regard. The chorus has performed in the past under the direction of such distinguished conductors as Andris Nelsons, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding and Riccardo Muti.
