Wolfgang Katschner Explained

Wolfgang Katschner
Birth Place:	Kyritz, Brandenburg, Germany

Wolfgang Katschner (born 1961 in Kyritz) is a German lutenist and conductor.^[1] He is director of the ensembles Capella Angelica and Lautten Compagney which specialise in Baroque music—notably the operas of Handel.^[2]

The Lautten Compagney won the Rheingau Musik Preis in 2012.^[3] In 2013 they played the annual Marienvesper of the Rheingau Musik Festival at Eberbach Abbey, Monteverdi's Vespers with the ensemble amarcord and five guest singers.^[4]

Katschner also directed the Philip Glass Ensemble and the Lautten Compagney for several recordings of compositions by Philip Glass.

Selected discography

For recordings with the Lautten Compagney, see there.

Johann Philipp Krieger: Lieben und geliebt werden Arias, Mona Spägele, Wilfried Jochens, Wolf Matthias Friedrich, New Classical Adventure, 1995
Songs of an English cavalier, works by John Dowland, Thomas Campion, Henry Lawes, John Blow, Henry Purcell. Kobie van Rensburg, New Classical Adventure, 2001
Handel's Beard, Kobie van Rensburg, New Classical Adventure, 2001
Dolce mio ben, arias by Gasparini, Conti, Magini, Pistocchi, Sarri. Maite Beaumont, Berlin 2003
My personal Handel collection, Lynne Dawson, Berlin Classics, 2003
Handel: La Diva - Arias for Cuzzoni, Simone Kermes. Berlin Classics
Mia Vita, Mio Bene, Ann Hallenberg and Ditte Andersen Berlin Classics, 2006
Handel arias, Maria Ricarda Wesseling, Claves Records, 2005
Il pianto d'Orfeo, Kobie van Rensburg, New Classical Adventure 2006
Henry Purcell: Love Songs. Dorothee Mields, Carus Verlag, 2010
Henry Purcell: Love's Madness. Dorothee Mields, Carus Verlag, 2012