Effective period / Period of releases: 2002 - 2018

Members: Eckart Hübner, Raphael Sachs, Werner Götze, Diego Pagin, Katrin Melcher, Susanne Kaldor, Markus Tillier, Benno Trautmann, Franz Lang (2), Anne Romeis, Peter Bromig, Uta Terjung, Margaret MacDuffie, Alexander Ott (3), Dita Lammerse, Horst Ziegler, Peter Hecking, Florian Hasel, Frederic Belli, Katarzyna Woźnica, Dorothea Funk, Jing Wen, Catherina Lendle, Anton Hollich, Jochen Schorer, Mitsuko Nakan, Gunnar Persicke, Daniel Schmitt (7), Horst Friedel, Wolfhard Pencz, Holger Schröter-Seebeck, Philippe Ohl, Klaus Schießer, Rahel Krämer, Jean-Christophe Garzia, Sally Clarke, Esther Przybylski, Thomas Bilowitzki, Claudia Strenkert, Stephan Finkentey, Frank-Michael Guthmann, Johannes Blumenröther, Dieter Wahl

German radio orchestra affiliated with the Southwest German broadcaster Südwestrundfunk (SWR) and located in Baden-Baden and the Konzerthaus Freiburg. It was founded in 1946 and was officially named Südwestfunkorchester Baden-Baden between 1948 and 1966 and Sinfonieorchester Des Südwestfunks between 1966 and 1998. Chief conductors: Michael Gielen, Sylvain Cambreling and François-Xavier Roth.
In 2016/17 the orchestra was merged with the Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart to form the SWR Symphonieorchester.