The Cologne Chamber Orchestra has participated in more than 200 recordings for CD, radio and television productions, featuring over 500 compositions. Since 1995 it has been recording exclusively for the Naxos label, documented by the following list of all its Naxos recordings.
On the occasion of the Bach Year 2000, Helmut Müller-Brühl and the Orchestra recorded Johann Sebastian Bach’s complete orchestral oeuvre, assembling on CD for the first time all 35 suites and concerti in the original versions that have come down to us, in transcriptions prepared by the composer himself and in more recent reconstructions of lost originals. It has also collected Bach’s sixteen sacred solo cantatas on four CDs, a welcome complement for its recordings of the Mass in B-Minor and the St Matthew Passion. In 2001 the recording of the three Darmstadt Overtures by Georg Philip Telemann won the Cannes Classical Award in the category “18th Century Orchestral Music”. In 2003Helmut Müller-Brühl and the Cologne Chamber Orchestra embarked upon a complete recording of Ludwig van Beethoven’s symphonies, of which only the Ninth is still outstanding today.
Over the course of the year 2007, twenty-four instrumental concerts by Joseph Haydn were recorded, ten of which had never been recorded in the original instrumentation before.
Christian Ludwig’s recording of Robert Fuchs’ Serenades Nos. 1-5 shifted the focus to less well-known repertoire.
The Orchestra’s last recording under Helmut Müller-Brühl’s baton, featuring Mozart’s Divertimenti, was released in 2011.
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