Bruno Weil is considered as one of the world's leading interpreter of Haydn symphonies. Haydn is

represented in many of his 22 recordings released on the Sony Classical label. His recording with

the Canadian ensemble Tafelmusik of the "Paris" Symphonies by Haydn won the MIDEM Cannes

Classical award in 1996 (in the category for 17th and 18th century orchestral music). Bruno Weil

and Tafelmusik have also been awarded the German Echo Klassik Award as Orchestra of the Year

in 1996 for their recording of Haydn's Missa Sancti Bernardi (Heiligmesse), and in 1997 Weil

himself won the Echo Klassik Award as Conductor of the Year.

Cappella Coloniensis, founded in 1954, was the first orchestra in the world to make music

according to historical performance practices. Amongst the important conductors that have stood in

front of the orchestra are Ferdinand Leitner, William Christie and John Eliot Gardiner, to name only

a few, and from 1997 increasingly often Bruno Weil. In 2003 the musicians of Cappella Coloniensis

chose Weil as their artistic director.

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Including Bonus-CD (38 min.) with explanations of the works by Bruno Weil (in German)