Real name: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR

Effective period / Period of releases: 1973 - 2020

Members: Dietmar Schwalke, Monika Hölszky-Wiedemann, Sergiu Celibidache, Karlheinz Halder, Christian Hedrich, Otto Armin, Hans Kalafusz, Hermann Baumann, Karl Friedrich Mess, Martin Rosenthal, Dirk Altmann, Gaby Pas-Van Riet, Mila Georgieva, Peter Rijkx, Ansgar Schneider, Hanspeter Weber, Johannes Ritzkowsky, Friedrich Milde, Willy Freivogel, Michael Rosenberg (2), Harald Matjacic, Tobias Unger (2), Ada Gosling, Emily Körner, Stefan Knote, Joachim Bänsch, Jānis Lielbārdis, Robert Kette, Christof Skupin, Franz Bach, Frank Szathmáry-Filipitsch, Raymond Warnier, Michael Rieber, Rolf Oscher, Natalie Chee, Rennie Yamahata, Sebastian Manz, Annette Schütz, Josef Weissteiner, Rudolf Gleißner, Libor Sima, Renié Yamahata, Wolfgang Gaag, Gottfried Hahn, Horst Strohfeldt, Ralph Sabow, Karl-Theo Adler, Dietmar Ullrich, Florian Metzger, Albert Boesen, Thomas Hammes, Wolfgang Wipfler, Gunter Teuffel, Anne Marckardt, Willi Forster, Jürgen Wirth (2), Georg ter Voert, Rudolf König, Anne Angerer, Eduardo Calzada, Ryutaro Hei, Hanno Dönneweg, Thomas Flender, Christian Naș, Michael Hsu, Wolfgang Düthorn, Dirk Hegemann, Ulrike Hofmann, Paul Pesthy, Hendrik Then-Bergh, Barbara Weiske, Fionn Bockemühl, Phillip Roy, Harald Paul, Jakob Lustig, Dietmar Boeck, Tatjana Ruhland, Philippe Tondre, Thomas Bilowitzki, Ekkehart Kleinbub, Axel Schwesig, Ingrid Philippi-Seyffer, Alina Abel, Marin Smesnoi, Arvid Christoph Dorn, Carl-Magnus Helling, Astrid Stutzke, Frederik Stock, Stefan Bornscheuer, Insa Andrea Fritsche, Sylvia Schnieders, Gesa Jenne-Dönneweg, Andreas Kraft (2), Helke Bier, Teresa Jansen, Monika Renner-Auers, Felix von Tippelskirch, Silke Meyer-Eggen, Peter Lauer (4), Christina Singer, Andreas Ritzinger, Christoph Schmidt (7), SooEun Lee

The Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (RSO) was affiliated to the Southwest Broadcasting Company Südwestrundfunk (SWR). It was founded in 1945 as Kleines Symphonie-Orchester Stuttgart and appeared under different names over the years, as Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart (with slight variations, see chronology below) between 1975 and 2016. Chief conductors were Sergiu Celibidache, Sir Neville Marriner, Gianluigi Gelmetti, Georges Prêtre, Roger Norrington and .
In 2016/17 the orchestra was merged with the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Und Freiburg to form the SWR Symphonieorchester.

Name changes:
1945: Kleines Symphonie-Orchester von Radio Stuttgart
1946: Großes Orchester von Radio Stuttgart
1949: Sinfonieorchester von Radio Stuttgart
1949: Sinfonie-Orchester Des Süddeutschen Rundfunks
1959: Südfunk-Sinfonieorchester
1975: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
1998: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, SWR Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart
2001: Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
2016: SWR Symphonieorchester