Orchester Wiener Akademie

Among the few groups to play Liszt's music on historical instruments, the durable Orchester Wiener Akademie ("Orchestra of the Vienna Academy") performs music from the Baroque to the late Romantic era. The orchestra has a large catalog of recordings, some of them in its own RESOUND series that seeks to re-create historical sound ambiances. The Orchester Wiener Akademie was founded in 1985 by conductor Martin Haselböck, who remains its music director as of the early 2020s. It found success almost immediately, releasing an album of concertos by C.P.E. Bach in 1988. It has also developed two music dramas, The Infernal Comedy, and The Giacomo Variations, with actor John Malkovich. In 2022, the orchestra issued the album Liszt: Legends of the Saints, Vol. 1.