Christoph Spering

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Christoph Spering is passionate about conducting! There are few other conductors who have brought such a wide range of scores from darkness into light. Thanks to his musicological knowledge he could resurrect and perform several key-compositions, a part of them also has been recorded. Besides the engagements with his own ensembles and the didactic concert series he created in Cologne Christoph Spering is invited as guest conductor by renowned orchestras worldwide. Christoph Spering belongs to a new generation of young conductors who focussing not only on the practical but also the musicological aspects of interpretation. He is chiefly committed to elaborating an approach and an interpretation of 18th & 19th century music; putting an emphasis on the search for musical originality and seeking the composer’s intentions beyond the mere written notes. Following his debut in 1987 as the youngest conductor at the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, Spering received numerous invitations for international engagements. Since that time Christoph Spering has explored a vast repertoire with utmost dedication to historical authenticity. Under the direction of Spering, the ensemble Das Neue Orchester is the first German ensemble to apply the results of historic performance practice including even the Romantic period. The orchestra devotes itself not only to the works of Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Mendelssohn, but also to unknown or rediscovered repertoires. Together with the Chorus Musicus Köln, a

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Mozart: Requiem

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Bach : Passion selon Saint-Matthieu

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Esprit Mélancolie

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Bach Cantatas

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Bach : Passion selon Saint-Matthieu (Instants Classiques)

Bach: Lutherkantaten, Vol. 1 (BWV 62, 36, 91)

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Reger & Mahler: Works

Bach: Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott

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Exsultate Jubilate

Bach: Praise - Cantatas BWV 26, 41, 95, 115, 137, 140

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Bach: Was mein Gott will - Cantatas BWV 5, 33, 94, 111, 113, 135, 178

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Bach: Passion selon Saint-Matthieu

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