Biography:
The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne was founded in 1947 by what was then Northwest German Broadcasting as WDR's own orchestra. Cooperation and recordings with well-known conductors such as Otto Klemperer, Sir Georg Solti, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Herbert von Karajan, Claudio Abbado and others. The orchestra gives around 40 concerts per season in the Cologne Philharmonic Hall and in the broadcasting area of the WDR and undertakes concert tours in Europe and the Far East. In 1990-91 it was the first German orchestra to perform all Mahler symphonies in Tokyo and Osaka under Gary Bertini. In addition to the classical-romantic repertoire, the orchestra cultivates the music of the 20th and 21st centuries and plays world and first performances with works by Hans Werner Henze, Maurice Kagel, Luciano Berio, Luigi nono, Bernd Alois Zimmermann and Karlheinz Stockhausen. Chief Conductor since 1997/98 Semyon Bychkov.
www.wdr.de/radio/orchester/index.html
Albums:
, said the shotgun to the head / Utopia II:
Altisonanza – Le favole di Esopo:
musica viva festival munich 2008:
Topic – Horizon – Myth – Black Peninsulas:
Popol Vuh - Cantata para America Mágica:
