Cappella Coloniensis
The Cappella Coloniensis , founded by the WDR , is an orchestra that has existed since 1954 , which brings compositions to the ear in the sense of historical performance practice . The focus is on the music of the Baroque period , but works from the Classical and Romantic periods are also recorded.
history
In the 1960s and 1970s, the orchestra made concert tours to the USSR, the Middle and Far East, North and South America and Europe.
In the early 1980s, under the direction of Gabriele Ferro and with the participation of singers such as Fiorenza Cossotto and Francisco Araiza, the first recordings of romantic opera literature by Gioachino Rossini were made.
The orchestra was u. a. by the conductors Ulf Björlin , Wilfried Boettcher, William Christie , Marcel Couraud , Daniel Chorzempa , Gabriele Ferro , Georg Fischer (also György Fischer), John Eliot Gardiner , Reinhard Goebel , Günter Kehr , Eigel Kruttge, Sigiswald Kuijken , Ferdinand Leitner , Hans- Martin Linde , Rolf Reinhardt , Joshua Rifkin , Paul Sacher , Michael Schneider , Hanns-Martin Schneidt , Andreas Spering , August Wenzinger , and Günther Wich.
Under Bruno Weil , who has conducted the orchestra frequently since 1997 and has since been elected artistic director, the Cappella has twice been awarded the Echo Classic Prize of the German Record Industry.
With Bruno Weil, he also made CD recordings of the Weber operas Der Freischütz and Abu Hassan and the opera Endimione by Johann Christian Bach . In June 2004 the CD of a concert performance in the Philharmonie Essen from June 2004, the first version of the Flying Dutchman by Richard Wagner , was released.
In 2004 the WDR gave up the sponsorship of the Cappella Coloniensis. Since then the orchestra has stood on its own two feet.
Discography (selection)
- Sound carriers (publications) with the Cappella Coloniensis in the catalog of the German National Library
- Recordings of the Cappella Coloniensis up to 2004 - directory, compiled by Friedrich Schneider (Bonn, May 29, 2014)
Web links
- Homepage of the Cappella Coloniensis
- Arnold Music - Cappella Coloniensis
- Allmusic discography
- Discogs discography