ALBUMThe Enchanted Loom: Orchestral Works by Carl VineThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Sir Andrew Davis
ALBUMVivaldi: The Four SeasonsChristian Li & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMGoossens: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3Sir Andrew Davis, Tasmin Little & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMIves: Orchestral Works, Vol. 3Sir Andrew Davis, Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMAgony and EcstasyEmma Matthews, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Andrea Molino
ALBUMStrauss: Ein Heldenleben / Intermezzo: Four Symphonic InterludesThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMIves: New England Holidays, Central Park in the Dark, Three Places in New England & The Unanswered QuestionSir Andrew Davis & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMBabe (Music from the Original Motion Picture)The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Nigel Westlake
ALBUMIves: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2Sir Andrew Davis & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMAdès: Polaris - Stanhope: Piccolo Concerto (MSO Live)Benjamin Northey, Markus Stenz, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Andrew Macleod
ALBUMKhachaturian & ShostakovichThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, Mark Wigglesworth & James Ehnes
ALBUMBartók: Four Orchestral Pieces, Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta & Suite from The Miraculous MandarinEdward Gardner & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMGrainger: Works for Large Chorus and OrchestraSir Andrew Davis, Sydney Chamber Choir, Melbourne Symphony Orchestra Chorus & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMGoossens: Orchestral WorksSir Andrew Davis & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMGrainger: The Warriors, Danish Folk-Music Suite, Hill-Songs 1 & 2, Et Al.The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Geoffrey Simon
ALBUMShostakovich: Symphony No. 11 "The Year 1905"The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Oleg Caetani
ALBUMClassical SpectacularThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Anthony Inglis
ALBUMGustav Holst: The PlanetsThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMMSO Live: Vaughan Williams - Chopin - DukasThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Christopher Seaman
ALBUMStephan: Music for Violin and Orchestra & Music for OrchestraOleg Caetani, Sergey Stadler & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMThe Waltzing CatSimon Tedeschi, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Paul Mann
ALBUMBeggars & AngelsPaul Dean, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Markus Stenz
ALBUMMahler: Symphony No 5The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Markus Stenz
ALBUMBritten: Piano Concerto - Copland: Piano ConcertoJohn Hopkins, Gillian Lin & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMMake Believe - Classic Songs of BroadwayYvonne Kenny, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Guy Noble
ALBUMStrauss: Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Intermezzo, Op. 72Michael Halász & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMPeter and the Wolf - Dame Edna EverageBarry Humphries, Dame Edna Everage, John Lanchbery & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMBeethoven: The Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43Michael Halász & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMBerlioz: L'enfance du Christ, Op. 25Sir Andrew Davis, Sasha Cooke, Roderick Williams, Matthew Brook, Shane Lowrencev, Andrew Goodwin, Andrew Staples & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMNigel Butterley: From Sorrowing EarthThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Isaiah Jackson
ALBUMSimple GiftsYvonne Kenny, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Vladimir Kamirski
ALBUMDreyfus: Chamber & Orchestral MusicDavid Measham, Ladislav Slová & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMAustralian Violin ConcertosLeonard Dommett, The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Patrick Thomas
ALBUMSymphonic SuperstarsAdelaide Symphony Orchestra, José Serebrier & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMGrainger: The WarriorsGeoffrey Simon & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMMusic of Percy Aldridge GraingerThe Melbourne Symphony Orchestra & Geoffrey Simon
ALBUMBartók: Concerto for Orchestra & The Miraculous MandarinHiroyuki Iwaki & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
ALBUMThe Film Music of George Dreyfus, Vol. 1George Dreyfus & The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra
The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra is Australia's oldest professional symphonic ensemble, having been founded in 1906. It is also arguably the most versatile, with a performing repertory and recording catalog that include everything from standard orchestral works to unusual Australian works to pop and cinematic pieces.
Alberto Zelman, who founded the Melbourne Symphony, led it for its first 21 years of existence and built it into a world-class ensemble. Zelman was also the first Australian to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic and London Philharmonic Orchestras. The orchestra affiliated itself with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) in 1934, and it became the Victoria Symphony Orchestra in 1945; the orchestra has been supported by the government of Australia's Victoria State. The original Melbourne Symphony Orchestra name was restored in 1965. The orchestra had numerous conductors during the postwar years, most of them Europeans who stayed for only a short time. In 1974, Japan's Hiroyuki Iwaki ascended the podium; he would remain until 1997, becoming the orchestra's longest-serving conductor to date and taking the group on tour to Japan twice. That inaugurated a period of international exposure that included tours of North America, East Asia, and Europe, and in 2014 the Melbourne Symphony made its debut at the BBC Proms in London. Iwaki was succeeded in turn by the German Markus Stenz, Italy's Oleg Caetani (under whom the orchestra absorbed the Melbourne Chorale in 2008 and renamed it the MSO Chorus), and the Japanese-British Tadaaki Otaka before veteran British conductor Sir Andrew Davis arrived in 2013; his tenure was set to conclude in 2019.
Davis brought in such international stars as singers Bryn Terfel and Renée Fleming, and violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter for concerts, and took the orchestra on tours of China and Indonesia. He also continued the orchestra's vigorous recording program, which has been mostly associated with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ABC Classics label. The variety of the Melbourne Symphony's recording catalog has been notable, including such items as a new recording of the soundtrack to the film Babe, the jazz recording Ella and Louis, and, in 2019, a recording of Berlioz's L'enfance du Christ on Britain's major Chandos label. ~ James Manheim
Hometown
Melbourne, Australia
Genre
Classical
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