Orquesta Nacional de Francia

The life of the orchestra is marked by numerous phonographic recordings. The most recent, released on the Naïve-Radio France label, include Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, performed in March 2000 under the direction of Bernard Haitink and awarded “Best classical Recording of the Year” at the Victoires de la Musique classique in 2002, the operas Ivan IV by Bizet, conducted by Michaël Schönwandt (honored by the Académie du Disque Lyrique), Edgar de Puccini conducted by Joël Levi, the Baron Tzigane by Johann Strauss with Armin Jordan, a “Tribute to Evgueni Svetlanov”, the Symphony No. 10 of Chostakovitch conducted by Kurt Sanderling, the Symphony No. 6 of Tchaikovski conducted by Riccardo Muti, the Symphony No. 5 of Bruckner with Lovro von Matacic and the opera Mirra by Domenico Alaleona conducted by Juraj Vacuha. The recordings of the Orchestre National under the baton of Kurt Masur feature Beethoven’s Symphonies No. 2 and No. 6, Tchaïkovski’s Symphony No. 5 and Chostakovich’s Symphony No.7.