Cyfres Cyngherddau Rhyngwladol Neuadd Dewi Sant 2016/17 DRESDEN PHILHARMONIE CERDDORFA FFILHARMONIG DRESDEN The DRESDEN PHILHARMONIE is the Orchestra of Dresden, the State Capital of Saxony. Since 2011, Michael Sanderling has been its Principal Conductor, following Kurt Masur, Marek Janowski, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and others in this Position. The Dresden Philharmonie continues the tradition of the Ratsmusik, the city council’s musicians who were first mentioned in the fifteenth Century and had grown into an orchestra by the early nineteenth Century. Since 1870, the year when Dresden got its first great concert hall, the Philharmonic’s symphony concerts have been an established part of the city’s concert life. The Dresden Philharmonie has ever since been a concert orchestra with regulär ventures into the fields of opera concertante and oratorios. It is housed in the Kulturpalast in the middle of the Old Town. The listed Shell of the building will be built-in with a new, ultra-modern concert hall by 2017. Until then, the main venues for the Philharmonic’s great concerts are the Albertinum and the Schauspielhaus. The Dresden Philharmonie offers great musical and stylistic variety. On the one hand, the orchestra has been able to retain its very own "German” sound in the Romantic repertoire. On the other hand, it has developed flexibility of sound and style for Baroque and Viennese Classic music as well as for modern works. Renowned conductors and composers headed the orchestra early on, from Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Dvorak and Richard Strauss to Erich Kleiber and Knappertsbusch, Previn and Marriner, to Andris Nelsons and Kristjan Järvi.
