Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
The Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, founded in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1918 by
conductor Ernest Ansermet and Paul Lachenal, is a Swiss symphony orchestra based
at Victoria Hall. Ansermet served as music director for 49 years from 1918 to
1967, programming modern works including Maurice Ravel's La Valse and Igor
Stravinsky's Le Sacre du printemps. The orchestra merged with a Lausanne radio
orchestra in 1938 and performs as the opera orchestra for the Grand Théâtre de
Genève. Beginning a long-standing recording contract with Decca Records in 1947
with Claude Debussy's La mer, the e...
