Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn

Over 500 works have been recorded to date for various labels, including four programmes with James Galway, an award-winning recording of Shostakovich’s concerto for piano, trumpet and string orchestra and Haydn’s D major piano concerto with Martha Argerich and Guy Touvron, and Mozart concert and opera arias with Thomas Quasthoff, with whom the orchestra toured in 1996 and is touring again in April 1999. A December 1997 recording of the clarinet concertos of Mozart and Krommer with the Israeli clarinetist Sharon Kam has been well received, and this series was continued in July 1998 with the young Russian trumpet virtuoso Sergei Nakariakov.

Numerous concert broadcasts by German and foreign radio stations testify to the quality of the orchestra. Televised productions have been made for South German Broadcasting, Austrian Broadcasting and the German private station RTL plus.

Soloists regularly appearing with the orchestra includes Anne-Sophie Mutter, Maurice André, Heinz Holliger, Gidon Kremer, Alfred Brendel, James Galway, Martha Argerich, Rudolf Buchbinder, Sabine Meyer, Mstislav Rostropovich, Justus Frantz, Viktoria Mullova, Michaela Petri, Frank Peter Zimmermann and Thomas Quasthoff. The orchestra and its conductor Jörg Faerber are particularly interested in working with exceptional young soloists selected from the prizewinners of such contests as the ARD Music Competition in Munich or the German youth competition Jugend musiziert. The Württemberg Chamber Orchestra of Heilbronn, directed by Jörg Faerber, has made guest appearances at music festivals in Rome, London, Bratislava, Salzburg and Lucerne, in Stresa, Ascona, Montreux, Schwetzingen, Ludwigsburg and Weilburg, and at the Carinthian Summer Festival, Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival and Rheingau Music Festival.