Das Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks (BRSO) ist in München beheimatet. Es ist der größte der drei Klangkörper des Bayerischen Rundfunks. Hauptspielstätten des Orchesters sind der Herkulessaal der Münchner Residenz und, solange die Philharmonie am Gasteig renoviert wird, das Ausweichquartier Isarphilharmonie.

"Giacomo Puccini wrote only a few works for voice with piano accompaniment. Eleven songs were published during his lifetime; others remained lost for over a century. In 2010, a first critical edition of the total of sixteen vocal compositions was presented. Several of them are closely related to Puccini's operas and had already been written during his studies in Milan.

The Munich Radio Orchestra (German: Münchener Rundfunkorchester) is associated with Germany's Bavarian Radio public broadcaster, but should not be confused with the network's other orchestra, the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks), which is devoted to mainstream symphonic repertory. The Munich Radio Orchestra has specialized in light music, adding forays into Italian opera, contemporary sacred music, and even – in its frequent concerts in Munich – jazz and video game music, the latter perhaps designed for the orchestra's extensive youth activities.

"Le miroir de Jesus' (The Mirror of Jesus) for mezzo-soprano, women's choir, strings and harp, the last major work composed by the French composer Andre Caplet in the spring and summer of 1923 and based on fifteen poems by the French writer Henri Gheon, was subtitled 'Mysteres du rosaire' (Mysteries of the Rosary).

29. Oktober 1923 – ein geschichtsträchtiges Datum. Inmitten des politischen wie wirtschaftlichen Krisenjahres wurde in der Dachkammer eines Bürogebäudes am Potsdamer Platz mit der ersten Sendung der »Berliner Funkstunde« das Zeitalter des öffentlichen Rundfunks in Deutschland eingeläutet. – Für die Produktion und Rezeption von Musik bot der Rundfunk ganz neue Möglichkeiten. Die auf der vorliegenden CD versammelten Komponisten profitierten nicht nur von diesen Entwicklungen, sondern gestalteten sie zum Teil auch aktiv mit.

In September 1809, the Vienna Hofburg Theatre commissioned Ludwig van Beethoven to create new incidental music for Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's "Egmont". The tragedy had premiered in Mainz on 9 January 1789. It calls for incidental music; but various attempts, some commissioned by the poet himself, remained unfinished or were unsatisfactory. In Vienna, however, the production of "Egmont" was to include the music called for in several places.

Valentin Silvestrov is probably the best-known Ukrainian composer, and his Requiem for Larissa was written in response to the unexpected death in 1996 of his wife, the music and literature scholar Larissa Bondarenko. She had stood by his side from the very beginning of his artistic career. It was in 1999, shortly before the turn of the millennium, that Silvestrov was finally able to complete his Requiem. He did not set a drama of the Last Judgement to music, as Mozart, Berlioz or Verdi had done before him, but rather wrote a lament - in seemingly endless, world-forlorn repetitions. The composer stepped out of the present and into the past, commenting on his life with Larissa with memories of music that had inspired her, and with profound allusions, retrospections and epilogues of the most personal nature. Silvestrov set the words of the Latin mass for the dead to music, yet he did not compose a mass in the sense of a liturgically close or ecclesiastically compatible piece of music. In his seven-movement requiem, the theological order of the Catholic requiem mass is irrevocably dissolved. As if religious gravity had been suspended, isolated words drift about freely and forlornly. The work begins and ends with "Requiem aeternam". At the end, only the wind rushes out of the synthesiser - and, at the very end, an echo of the wind.

Mariss Jansons ranks among the outstanding podium personalities of our time. His orchestral work is recognized not only because of his busy touring activities but also because of television and radio broadcasts world-wide, also documented by a sizable number of recordings.

Michael Jarys "Ich weiß, es wird einmal ein Wunder gescheh’n“ und "Davon geht die Welt nicht unter“, Theo Mackebens "Du hast Glück bei den Frau’n, Bel Ami!“, Lothar Brühnes "Ich brech’ die Herzen der stolzesten Frau’n“ oder Friedrich Schröders "Ich tanze mit dir in den Himmel hinein“ sind einige jener auch heute noch gern gehörten Tonfilmschlager, die von den Nationalsozialisten, wenn nicht bereits in Auftrag gegeben, so doch später auf perfide Weise zu Propagandazwecken missbraucht worden sind. Vokabeln wie "Propaganda-“ oder "Durchhaltefilm“ begleiten das auf diesem Album dargebotene Programm als hässliche Kehrseite mitunter genialer musikalischer Schöpfungen. Einzelne der Titel hat das 1952 gegründete Münchner Rundfunkorchester im Lauf seines 70jährigen Bestehens immer wieder gespielt, in ganz unterschiedlichen Besetzungen und Arrangements. Das vorliegende Album wurde im Oktober 2021 als Studioaufnahme produziert.

Mariss Jansons rehearses Ludwig van Beethoven´s Symphony No. 5 with the BRSO.

Mariss Jansons Jansons’s earliest memories were of his father, the conductor Arvid Jansons, conducting opera and ballet: ‘As a very small boy, three years old, I was always observing… I went to my father’s rehearsals. When I came home, I put my book on the table and started to conduct. I changed my trousers because they were for rehearsal, not for concert. I played at being artistic director, drawing up programmes for subscription seasons.’ He learned to play the violin in Riga, and in 1957 entered the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied conducting with Rabinovich, as well as the piano and violin.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra. Based in Munich, Germany, it is one of the city's four orchestras. The BRSO is one of two full-size symphony orchestras operated under the auspices of Bayerischer Rundfunk, or Bavarian Broadcasting (BR). Its primary concert venues are the Philharmonie of the Gasteig Cultural Centre and the Herkulessaal in the Munich Residenz.

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (German: Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, BRSO) is a German radio orchestra. Based in Munich, Germany, it is one of the city's four orchestras. The BRSO is one of two full-size symphony orchestras operated under the auspices of Bayerischer Rundfunk, or Bavarian Broadcasting (BR).

What does the work of a conductor actually involve? He moves his hands, arms, his whole body, he makes use of his eyes and facial expressions - and he also sings and speaks, but only during rehearsals, of course.

Mariss Jansons ranks among the outstanding podium personalities of our time. His orchestral work is recognized not only because of his busy touring activities but also because of television and radio broadcasts world-wide, also documented by a sizable number of recordings.