Browse: WDR Rundfunkchor Köln (choir)
This page lists all recordings performed by WDR Rundfunkchor Köln.
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Wagner: Lohengrin
RecommendedJohan Botha (Lohengrin), Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa), Falk Struckmann (Telramund), Petra Lang (Ortrud), Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich), Eike Wilm Schulte (Herald)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Chor & Prager Kammerchor, Semyon Bychkov
Semyon Bychkov conducts a robustly powerful yet airily textured performance, keenly dramatic yet finely detailed. His Cologne orchestra and various choruses, focused and involved, sound tremendous... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection
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Presto Recording of the Week, 19th April 2010
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2010, Disc of the Year & Opera Award Winner
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Opera, June 2009, Recording of the Month
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Puccini: Suor Angelica
Kristine Opolais (Angelica), Lioba Braun (Princess), Nadezhda Serdyuk (Sister Monitor) & Mojca Erdmann (Sister Genovieffa)
WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Andris Nelsons
Nelsons evokes atmosphere with energy and clean-cut textures. All told, the effect is slightly cool, but many will prefer it to overheated Italianate performances, especially with such a credibly... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2013, Opera Finalist
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BBC Music Magazine, November 2012, Opera Choice
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Marschner, H A: Der Vampyr
Jonas Kaufmann, Franz Hawlata, Regina Klepper & Thomas Dewald
WDR Rundfunkorchester Koln, Helmuth Froschauer
Kaufmann sings the hero to Hawlata's villain in this enjoyable account of Marschner's 1828 Gothic thriller, a work that influenced Wagner and which can still send a shiver down the spine. — More…
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Presto Editor's Choice, October 2017
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Mozart: Complete Masses, Vol. 2
Mass No. 18 'Great' & Missa Brevis 'Spaur'
Cologne Radio Choir, Cologne Chamber Orchestra, Christoph Poppen
The approach to both is thoroughly refined and contained, although there is power to be had in the spectacular and unfinished ‘Great’, performed here in its 1989 completion by musicologist Franz... — More…
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Mendelssohn: The 5 Symphonies
Anna Lucia Richter (soprano), Robin Tritschler (tenor), Esther Dierkes (soprano)
NDR Radiophilharmonie, NDR Chor, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln, NDR Choir, Andrew Manze
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Laura Aikin (Rosalinde), Jochen Schmeckenbecher (Frank), Elisabeth Kulman (Prinz Orlofsky), Christian Elsner (Alfred), Matthias Hausmann (Dr. Falke), Alexander Kaimbacher (Dr. Blind), Annika Gerhards (Adele), Alice Waginger (Ida) & Kurt Rydl (Frosch); NDR Radiophilharmonie, Lawrence Foster
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Otto Klemperer conducts Beethoven & Mendelssohn Käthe Möller-Siepermann (soprano) & Hanna Ludwig (mezzo)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
[a] deeply felt Requiem, still high-voltage despite mono sound. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Dvořák: The King and the Charcoal Burner (Král a Uhlír)
Dalibor Jenis (King Matyáš), Peter Mikuláš (Matěj), Michelle Breedt (Anna), Lívia Aghová (Liduška), Michal Lehotsky (Jenik), Markus Schäfer (Jindřich)
Prague Chamber Choir, WDR Rundfunkchor Köln & WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Gerd Albrecht
Dvorák's delightful The King and the CharcoalBurner was the second opera that he wrote and the first to be staged. In its first form it was abandoned during rehearsal as being too complex and... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2007, Editor's Choice
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