Effective period / Period of releases: 1953 - 2012

Members: Vytas Sondeckis, Katharina Bunners, Rodrigo Reichel, Stefan Pintev, Klaus Thunemann, Gerhard Sibbing, Eckhardt Hemkemeier, Thomas Oepen, Boris Bachmann, Herbert Blomstedt, Rainer Castillon, Rainer Christiansen, Rolf Lind, Bernhard Hamann, Georg Nothdorf, Christoph Groth, Jan Larsen, Günter Wand, John Eliot Gardiner, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph Eschenbach, Ingus Schmidt, Moshe Atzmon, Klaus Tennstedt, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jan Schröder, Markus Hötzel, Marius Nichiteanu, Kalev Kuljus, Hansheinz Schneeberger, Margit Anna Süss, Georg Faust, Horea Crishan, Bernhard Läubin, Hannes Läubin, Karl-Otto Hartmann, Fabian Diederichs, Yuri Christiansen, Thomas Hengelbrock, Edwin Koch, Wilfried Schoberansky, Hans-Christoph Sauer, Dieter Göltl, Stefan Geiger, Roland Greutter, Rainer Mehne, Erich Röhn, Martin Menking, Alexander Von Puttkamer, Rubén González (2), Simone Candotto, Vytautas Sondeckis, Peter Dreßel, Gunther Pohl, Florin Paul, Wolfgang Ritter (2), Paulus van der Merwe, Michael Rieber, Sono Tokuda, Franziska Mantel, Sebastian Gaede, Ludmila Muster, Razvan Aliman, Thomas Grossenbacher, Ruxandra Klein, Torsten Frank, Walter Hermann, Ingrid Göltl, Reinhard Wolf, Tatjana Vassiljeva, Renate Rusche, Tino Steffen, Veronika Passin, Alexandra Psareva, Erik Wenbo Xu, Nothard Müller, Ljudmila Minnibaeva, Arthur Troester, Stephan Cürlis, Jens Plücker, Klaus-Dieter Dassow, Dagmar Ferle, Joachim Preu, Heinz-Henning Perschel, Volker Donandt, Karsten Heymann, Andreas Grünkorn, Brigitte Lang, Björn Groth (2), Aline Saniter, Bettina Lenz, Katrin Scheitzbach, Christopher Franzius, Jürgen Franz, Ehrhard Wetz, Stefan Wagner (6), Matthias Perl (2), Stephan Schulze (3), Hans-Jürgen Pincus, Marietta Kratz, Benedikt Kany, Tobias Heimann, Silvia Offen, Alla Rutter, Stephan Graf (2), Valentin Priebus, Barbara Gruszcynska, Katharina Kühl (2), Gaspare Vittorio Buonomano, Emmanuel Goldstein (2), Claudia Strenkert, Frauke Kuhlmann, Ekkehard Beringer, Guillaume Couloumy, Beate Aanderud, Florian Klingler, Bettina Barbara Bertsch, Dave Claessen, Günter Ludzuweit, NDR Tromböne Group, Members Of The NordDeutscher Rundfunk Orchestra

German radio orchestra based in Hamburg and affiliated to the public broadcaster Norddeutscher Rundfunk (NDR). In English, the name is usually given as the Hamburg Radio Orchestra.

It was founded as the Orchester Des NWDR Hamburg (affiliated to Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk) in 1945 and renamed to NDR Sinfonieorchester in 1955/56. Since April 2016 the orchestra is residing at the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg as the NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchester.
Chief conductors:
Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt (1945–1971)
Moshe Atzmon (1971–1976)
Klaus Tennstedt (1979–1981)
Günter Wand (1982–1991)
John Eliot Gardiner (1991–1994)
Herbert Blomstedt (1996–1997)
Christoph Eschenbach (1998–2004)
Christoph von Dohnányi (2004–2011)
Thomas Hengelbrock (2011–2016)

The orchestra also appears as Sinfonie-Orchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, NDR-Symphonieorchester, NDR-Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre Symphonique De La N.D.R. Hambourg.