Band
WDR Rundfunkchor Köln
Albums
45
Members
41
Active
1947–present
Origin
Köln
Biography
The WDR Rundfunkchor Köln (West German Radio Choir Cologne) is the choir of the German broadcaster Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR), based in Cologne. It was founded in 1947. The choir premiered works by contemporary composers including Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished opera Moses und Aron in 1954, Karlheinz Stockhausen's Momente, Luigi Nono's Il canto sospeso, Bernd Alois Zimmermann's Requiem für einen jungen Dichter and Penderecki's St Luke Passion.
Discography
Carmina Burana
Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op.45
Carmina Burana
Offenbachiade
L’italiana in Algeri
Der Kuhhandel “Shady Dealing” (Auszüge)
Messa di gloria / Laudate Dominum KV 339
The Oboe Concertos
Tancredi
In cauda / Portrait / Duo pour Bruno
Königskinder
Passio et mors Domini nostri Jesu Christi secundum Lucam
Der Freischütz
Der Vampyr
Fidelio
Catulli Carmina / Trionfo di Afrodite
Eugen Onegin / Ägyptische Nächte
Elektra
Günter Wand-Edition, Volume 14
La Mer / Nocturnes / Prelude A L’Apres‐Midi D’Un Faune
Symphony In Three Movements / Symphony In C / Symphony Of Psalms
Tabi-bito / Sen VI / Die Lotosblume
No hay caminos, hay que caminar... Andrej Tarkowskij / "Hay que caminar" sognando / Caminantes... Ayacucho
Günter Wand-Edition, Volume 18
Natursymphonie
Requiem / Mass in C minor
Pique Dame
Rusalka
Symphonic Fantasies: music from SQUARE ENIX
Symphonie Nr. 3 d-moll
Symphony no. 8
Requiem / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony
Symphonic Odysseys: Tribute to Nobuo Uematsu
Symphony no. 2 “Resurrection”
Die Räuberbraut
Daphnis et Chloé
Ganznächtliche Vigil / All Night Vigil
Herz über Bord
Symphony no. 2 “Lobgesang”
Nordic Choral Music (Sweden, Norway, Finland, Denmark)
Mass no. 16 “Coronation Mass” / Missa longa
Complete Masses, Vol. 2
Mass no. 7 "Missa in honorem Sanctissimae Trinitatis" / Missa brevis in D major / Missa brevis in B-flat major
Das Floß der Medusa
Der Freischütz
Credits
Momente - Version 1965
Offenbachiade
Paganini (Musikalische Gesamtaufnahme)
Passio Et Mors Domini Nostri Jesu Christi Secundum Lucam
Penthesilea
Requiem Für Einen Jungen Dichter
Rigoletto - Querschnitt
Romance And Music
Schwarzwaldmädel (Musikalische Gesamtaufnahme)
Symphonie No. 8 - Symphonie No. 10: Adagio
Symphonie Nr. 8 "Symphonie Der Tausend" · "Symphony Of A Thousand"
Symphonies 1-10 / Das Lied Von Der Erde
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8
Symphony No. 8 In E Flat Major
Symposion / Secuencias / Lineas Y Puntos
Tancredi
The Execution Of Stepan Razin / Two Fabels After Krylov
Trionfi: Carmina Burana - Catulli Carmina - Trionfo di Afrodite
Trionfo Di Afrodite
Unsichtbare Chöre