Ten CDs with recordings from an entire century – the Saxon State Orchestra has given itself a present for its 475th anniversary and is now receiving a valuable award for it. The anniversary box “100 Years of Sound Recordings” receives the German Record Critics’ Prize.
The Saxon State Orchestra gave itself the biggest gift for its 475th anniversary: An opulent CD box with recordings from the past hundred years. It contains ten CDs that document which masters were at the orchestra’s podium between 1923 and 2023, who the musical household gods are and how recording technology has changed in this century. Starting with the first recording, which was made in June 1923 under the direction of general music director Fritz Busch in what was then the Palast-Hotel Weber on Postplatz, through recordings with Richard Strauss (who conducted Richard Strauss, “Don Quixote” in a guest performance recorded by the BBC in 1936 in the Queen’s Hall London) right up to the present with Myung-Whun Chung and Christian Thielemann – this box contains a large chapter of sounding band history.
The recordings are of course from the birthday orchestra. This special anniversary edition was of course conceived, developed, designed and produced by many other people involved. Above all, musicologist Steffen Lieberwirth and the record label Profil Günter Hänssler, but also the historical archive of the Saxon State Theater, broadcast archives of the BBC and Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, sound engineers, photographers like Matthias Creutziger and, last but not least, the orchestra board of the Staatskapelle have contributed to this elegantly designed gift.
Reason enough for the jurors of the “German Record Critics’ Prize” association to surprise the ensemble with another present: the anniversary box “475 Years of the Saxon Staatskapelle Dresden – 100 Years of Sound Recordings” will receive the “German Record Critics’ Prize” on February 15, 2024. . This honors “one of the artistically outstanding new productions on the recording market”. This critics’ award is viewed as a high-profile honor because the jurors from Switzerland, Austria and Germany “place great value on reaching independent judgments, uninfluenced by the interests of the producers.”
Michael Ernst / About the author
Michael Ernst devotes himself privately, on the radio and in print media to literature, music and musical theater. He previously worked at the Leipzig Opera and at a Dresden music festival. He has been writing for music in Dresden since 2009.
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