hr-Sinfonieorchester

About hr-Sinfonieorchester

The Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra ranks among the best European orchestras. Highly skilled and musically very flexible, the German radio orchestra with its long tradition and its history of 85 years presents music of all styles and epochs: from the Baroque era to contemporary avant-garde.

Celebrating great successes throughout the world with numerous concert activities and award-winning CD productions, the orchestra is a highly regarded guest on major international stages. Having become known due to its CD recordings of Romantic and late-Romantic works in the 1980s which set new standards, the Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra has been regarded as one of the world's leading Mahler and Bruckner orchestras for decades.

Renowned for its outstanding wind section, the full sound of its string section and its dynamic performance culture, the Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra today covers a wide range of styles and, together with its principal conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada, stands for musical excellence as well as for an interesting and varied repertoire. Experiments and discoveries in the fields of new and early music as well as the collaboration with top-class guest conductors and soloists are as much a part of the artistic profile of the Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra as the cross-border Music Discovery Project and numerous successful children and youth projects.