The list of the orchestra's guest conductors is equally impressive including Felix Mottl, Edouard Colonne, Paul Paray, Hermann Scherchen, Ernest Ansermet, Charles Munch and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Furtwängler wrote his Te Deum in Strasbourg in 1911. Composers such as Berlioz, Brahms, Saint-Saëns, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Reger, d'Indy, Boulez, Lutosławski and Penderecki have conducted the orchestra in performances of their works.
Today, the Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra is a 110-member ensemble with a considerable international reputation acquired through tours, recordings and TV broadcasts. The orchestra has
appeared in many European countries (Austria, the UK, Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Italy, Greece, Poland), in Japan on several occasions, and in Brazil and Argentina.
The orchestra has also visited distinguished music festivals in Paris, Montreux, Ascona, London, Bratislava, Besan.on, Orange, Aix-en-Provence, Montpellier, Saint-Denis, Athens, Grenada and
Flanders and on the Canary Islands. The orchestra also performed in Lissabon and Luxembourg in the years when those cities were European Capitals of Culture. In its home city, the orchestra gives
more than 50 concerts a year, appears at local music festivals and contributes to productions of the Opera National du Rhin.
The orchestra has released several award-winning recordings of music from the 18th to 20th centuries. The orchestra was awarded the European Symphony Orchestra Prize in 1996 and the Claude Rostand Prize for the production of the opera Dialogue des Carmélites in 1999. In 1994, it was granted the title of ‘Orchestre national' by the French Ministry of Culture.
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Kaija Saariaho
70 Years
(Digital album)
Various
ODE 1407-2
Released 01/2023
Kaija Saariaho
Quatre instants (2002)
Terra memoria for String Orchestra
Émilie Suite
Karen Vourc'h, soprano
Orchestre Philharmonique de Strasbourg
Marko Letonja, conductor
ODE 1255-2
Released 01/2015
