BR-KLASSIK is dedicating a second portrait edition to the eminent Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink,
containing a total of 9 CDs. Bernard Haitink died in October 2021, he would have turned 95 in March 2024.
These exceptional live recordings document the long-standing and intensive collaboration between
Bernard Haitink, the Bavarian Radio Chorus and the BRSO. Since Haitink conducted a subscription concert
for the first time in 1958, he repeatedly conducted the BRSO for over six decades - sometimes in the
Herkulessaal of the Residenz, sometimes in the Philharmonie im Gasteig. The orchestras’ musicians and
singers were just as happy to work with him as the Bayerischer Rundfunk’s sound engineers. As a
continuation of the Portrait Box released in February 2019, this new edition offers an excellent overview of
the joint interpretations of masterpieces from the Viennese Classical period as well as the German-Austrian
late Romantic period and the 20th century: outstanding compositions by Beethoven, Bruckner, Dvořák,
Mahler and Shostakovich.
The box includes complete recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 (CD 1) – a recording from 2019 –,
Bruckner‘s Symphonies No. 4 (CD 2) from 2012, No. 7 (CD 3) from 1981 and No. 8 (CD 4 / CD 5) from 1993
as well as his Te Deum (CD 4) from 2010, Dvořák‘s Symphony No. 7 from 1981 and his Scherzo Capriccioso
(CD 6) from 1981, Mahler‘s Symphony No. 7 (CD 7) from 2011 as well as from Shostakowitsch the
Symphonies No. 8 (CD 8) from 2006 and No. 15 (CD 9) from 2015.

Numerous famous vocal soloists - including Sally Matthews, Gerhild Romberger, Gerald Finley and Mark
Padmore (in Beethoven's Symphony No. 9) or Krassimira Stoyanova, Yvonne Naef, Christoph Strehl and
Günter Groissböck (in Bruckner's Te Deum) perform under Haitink's direction together with the Bavarian
Radio Chorus and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
The CD box set is a must for anyone eager to gain an overall impression of the work of the conductor
Bernard Haitink and also of his many years of collaboration with the ensembles of the Bayerischer
Rundfunk.
• Representative examples of Bernard Haitink's long-standing collaboration with the Bavarian
Radio Chorus and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Complete recordings of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9, Bruckner‘s Symphonies Nos. 4, 7 and 8
as well as his Te Deum, Dvořák‘s Symphony No. 7 and his Scherzo capriccioso, Mahler‘s Symphony
No. 7 and the Symphonies Nos. 8 and 15 from Shostakowitsch
• Recordings of Munich concerts given between 1981 and 2019 in the Herkulessaal der Residenz
and the Philharmonie im Gasteig
• The Bavarian Radio Chorus and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra under Bernard Haitink
perform together with numerous famous vocal soloists
CHOR & SYMPHONIEORCHESTER DES BAYERISCHEN RUNDFUNKS
BERNARD HAITINK, conductor
LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN
CD 1: Symphony No. 9 - Cat.Nr. 900180
ANTON BRUCKNER
CD 2: Symphony No. 4 - Cat.Nr. 900213
CD 3: Symphony No. 7 - Cat.Nr. 900218
CD 4: Te Deum / Symphony No. 8, first and second movement - Cat.Nr. 900212 (2 CD)
CD 5: Symphonies Nos. 8, third and fourth movement - Cat.Nr. 900212 (2 CD)
ANTONIN DVORÁK
CD 6: Symphony No. 7 / Scherzo Capriccioso - Cat.Nr. 900223 (release: Feb. 2025)
GUSTAV MAHLER
CD 7: Symphony No. 7 - Cat.Nr. 900209
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
CD 8: Symphony No. 8 - Cat.Nr. 900214
CD 9: Symphony No. 15 - Cat.Nr. 900210 (release: Jan. 2025)