WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne
- Roles
- Orchestra
- Airings
- 446
- Performances
- 202
- First – last aired
- 2015-05-04 – 2026-06-01
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Counts cover the performance-linked era (2012 onward).
Most-aired performances
Most-played composers
- Felix Mendelssohn (25)
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (25)
- Giuseppe Verdi (24)
- Johann Strauss II (22)
- Nino Rota (16)
- Ludwig van Beethoven (12)
- Johann Sebastian Bach (11)
- Robert Schumann (11)
- Sergey Rachmaninov (11)
- Johannes Brahms (10)
Conductors appeared with
- Cristian Măcelaru (100)
- Rasmus Baumann (78)
- Manfred Honeck (45)
- Stefan Parkman (44)
- Marek Janowski (22)
- Andris Poga (11)
- Krzysztof Urbański (10)
- Reinhard Goebel (10)
- Helmuth Rilling (9)
- Stanislav Kochanovsky (8)
Soloists appeared with
- Magdalena Lucjan (15)
- Dorothee Mields (14)
- Esther Peristerakis (14)
- Ian Bostridge (10)
- Ole Edvard Antonsen (10)
- Augustin Hadelich (7)
- Christina Landshamer (7)
- Igor Levit (7)
- Julia Bullock (6)
- Kirill Gerstein (6)
Ensembles appeared with
- WDR Rundfunkchor Köln (33)
- WDR Radio Chorus, Cologne (6)
- Berlin Radio Choir (4)
- Signum Saxophone Quartet (4)
- Cologne Cathedral Choir (3)
- WDR Chorus (2)
- WDR Kinderchor (2)
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Source broadcasters
- WDR – Westdeutscher Rundfunk 🇩🇪 (433)
- Radio România (SRR) 🇷🇴 (2)
- UNATTRIBUTED (11)