The Symphony Orchestra of the Lodz Philharmonic named after Arthur Rubinstein ( Polish. Orkiestra Symfoniczna Filharmonii Łódzkiej im. Artura Rubinsteina ) is a Polish symphony orchestra based in Lodz .
History
The orchestra was founded in Lodz in 1915 and gave the first concert on February 17 at the Bolshoi Theater of Lodz. 60 performers took part in the concert, including young Alexander Tansman and Paul Kletsky . The collection from the concert was in favor of unemployed musicians. In subsequent years, the orchestra performed at the Vogl Concert Hall, and rehearsed for some time at the Khazomir Jewish Singing Society. Since 1921, the collective was called the Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra ( Polish. Łódzka Orkiestra Filharmoniczna ). In the interwar period, prominent Polish conductors Valerian Berdyaev , Grzegorz Fitelberg , Emil Mlynarsky , Zdzislaw Birnbaum became the orchestra console, and in 1924 Hermann Abendroth conducted the orchestra through Lodz on a tour in the USSR.
After World War II, the orchestra in 1949 became part of the Lodz State Philharmonic, which in 1984 was named after Arthur Rubinstein . In 1990, in connection with the dilapidation of the building allocated to the philharmonic, the orchestra moved to a new temporary venue; in 2004, a completely reconstructed building of the concert hall was opened at the same place. In 2005 and 2015 the orchestra solemnly celebrated jubilee dates.
Among the recordings made by the orchestra, a number of works from the 1990s stand out. under the direction of Ilya Stupel (in particular, a set of all symphonies by Rud Langgor ). From later recordings, the album of Witold Lutoslavsky’s compositions for voice and orchestra (2013) caused a resonance.
Orchestra Leaders
- Tadeusz Mazurkevich (1915-1916)
- Bronislav Schulz (1916–1918)
- Theodore Ryder (1919-1939)
- Zdzislav Gurdzhiinsky (1945-1948)
- Włodzimierz Hormicki (1948–1950)
- Bogdan Vodichko (1950–1951)
- Witold Ksemensky (1953-1957)
- Henrik Chizh (1957–1960)
- Henrik Siskin (1972-1980)
- Andrzej Markovski (1982-1986)
- Tomash Bugay (1987–1990)
- Ilya Stupel (1990—1995)
- Pavel Pshitotsky (1995-1997)
- Marek Piyarovsky (2002—2005)
- Daniel Raiskin (since 2008)