Das Neue Orchester

Das Neue Orchester specializes in applying historical-performance principles to music from the Baroque to the Romantic era. The group often performed with conductor Christoph Spering and Chorus Musicus Köln. Das Neue Orchester was founded by Spering in 1988. Das Neue Orchester and Spering made the first recording of the 1841 revision of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, by Felix Mendelssohn. In 2020, Das Neue Orchester was heard with Chorus Musicus Köln on a recording of six "Praise Cantatas" by J.S. Bach. This collaboration continued over the next several years to include several more Bach-focused recordings, as well as a 2023 album of Reger and Mahler: Works. In 2026, the combined groups released a collection of Bach's Ziegler Cantatas.