Capella Istropolitana
The Capella Istropolitana is a Bratislava-based chamber orchestra whose activity in the recording studio places it among the most recorded ensembles of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Buyers browsing the bins of a record store or shopping online will find this seemingly ubiquitous ensemble on more than 250 CD releases. Actually, by 2008 the Capella Istropolitana had made over 90 recordings, but many of the performances appear on reissues, often in theme-oriented albums or series, like Cinema Classics (12 volumes), Chill with Bach, Chill with Beethoven, Best of Opera, and many others. But the ensemble is no mere peddler of popular or generic music for quick sale; they have been involved in highly successful Haydn and Mozart projects, and have recorded the Bach Brandenburg Concertos, the five Beethoven piano concertos, and large chunks of the output of Vivaldi, Handel, and others. Their repertory reaches well beyond the Baroque and Classical periods, both on recordings and in concert, taking in works by Brahms, Dvorák, Elgar, Britten, Respighi, Prokofiev, Bartók, Stravinsky, and Barber. Most of their recordings have been issued on the Naxos label, but others have appeared on Erato, Brilliant Classics, Bridge, and Claves.
Established in 1983 by members of the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, the Capella Istropolitana has performed under various conductors over the years and has regularly toured Europe, North America, the Far East, New Zealand, and Israel. The ensemble has never had a music director or chief conductor. In its early years it consisted of about 15 players, but eventually augmented its membership to accommodate performances of larger works, like the Beethoven symphonies.
The group's first Bach recordings appeared in the late '80s with general acclaim, and by the early '90s the group had achieved recognition both at home and abroad: in 1991 the Bratislava City Council honored the ensemble with a decree naming it Chamber Orchestra of the City of Bratislava; that same year Naxos began issuing the first CDs in the group's Haydn and Mozart symphony projects.
Throughout the 1990s and the first decade of the new century, the Capella Istropolitana remained extremely active in the recording studio, achieving great popularity with two platinum discs. The group also maintained a busy schedule of concerts, touring the U.S., Canada, and almost every European country. Its 2007 schedule, for instance, included numerous concerts in Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Croatia, France, and Switzerland.
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Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, Vol. 1
Capella Istropolitana, Takako Nishizaki, Bohdan Warchal, Oliver von Dohnanyi
Classical - Released by Naxos Special Projects on 26 Aug 2016
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Mozart: Best of Mozart (The)
Classical - Released by Naxos on 24 Mar 1991
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Découvrez la musique de l'époque baroque
Classical - Released by Naxos Special Projects - France on 28 Feb 2005
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Pachelbel: Canon & Gigue in D Major, P. 37
Classical - Released by Unclassified on 11 Nov 2016
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BEST OF OPERA, VOL. 5
Classical - Released by Naxos on 2 Oct 2000
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MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 21 / Violin Concerto No. 5
Takako Nishizaki, Peter Lang, Capella Istropolitana, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Christoph Eberle
Concertos - Released by Naxos on 19 Dec 2016
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Mozart: Salzburg Symphonies
Classical - Released by Naxos on 30 Jun 1988
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Nocturne: Classical Favourites for Relaxing and Dreaming
Classical - Released by Naxos on 18 Jun 1998
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Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 "Elvira Madigan" - Violin Concerto No. 5
Capella Istropolitana, Stephen Gunzenhauser, Takako Nishizaki, Christoph Eberle and Peter Lang
Classical - Released by SMOOTH CLASSICAL on 19 Dec 2016
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Classics at the Movies: Comedy 2
Opera - Released by Naxos on 13 Mar 2000
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Divertimenti, K. 131 and K. 287
Capella Istropolitana, Harald Nerat
Classical - Released by Naxos on 6 Dec 1994
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ALBINONI / BARBER / HANDEL (UK)
Classical - Released by Naxos on 14 Dec 1999
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TCHAIKOVSKY / DVORAK: Serenades for Strings
Wiener Kammerorchester, Capella Istropolitana, Philippe Entremont, Jaroslav Krcek
Classical - Released by Naxos on 23 Jul 1997
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SIBELIUS (THE BEST OF)
Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Capella Istropolitana, Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Dong-Suk Kang, Kenneth Schermerhorn, Adrian Leaper
Classical - Released by Naxos on 2 Jun 1997
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Famous Arias (feat. Klaus-Peter Modest)
Classical - Released by Digital Masterworks on 3 Jan 2022
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La crème de la crème: Haydn
Classical - Released by Naxos Special Projects - France on 15 Nov 2011
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Handel: Concerti Grossi Op. 3, No. 3 and Op. 6, Nos. 4-6
Classical - Released by Naxos on 19 Nov 2016
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BACH, J.S.: Famous Works
Classical - Released by Naxos on 22 Mar 1995
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