The Münchner Kammerphilharmonie dacapo cultivates a broad repertoire, ranging from ‘historically informed’ Baroque to classical, romantic and modern pieces. The orchestra repeatedly places a particular emphasis on the discovery and rediscovery of works for chamber orchestra from the late romantic and early modern periods. These include Sibelius's incidental music and the serenades and sinfoniettas by Roussel, Nielsen, Toldrá and Reinecke. Regular invitations to guest performances in Germany and abroad are testament to the great esteem in which the Münchner Kammerphilharmonie dacapo is held nationally and internationally. In February 2020, the orchestra performed at the Musikverein in Vienna for the first time.
Since the 2015/16 season, the Münchner Kammerphilharmonie dacapo has established a series of programmatically demanding Sunday matinees in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz in Munich, in which it combines rarely performed works of the romantic period with well-known pieces from the concert repertoire. Internationally acclaimed soloists such as Natalia Gutman, Kartal Karagedik or Ingolf Turban are regular performers with the ensemble. Twice a year, the ‘dacapo presents young soloists’ series also gives young musicians the opportunity to perform as soloists in front of a large audience. The orchestra's most recent recording for Austria’s biggest CD label Gramola together with violinist Thomas Albertus Irnberger, released in autumn 2023, features three Haydn concertos. Made at the Austrian monastery of St. Florian, the recording was selected for the prestigious German Record Critics' Award in January 2024.
In the almost 25 years of its musical work, the Münchner Kammerphilharmonie dacapo orchestra has secured a firm place in the Bavarian capital's packed concert calendar and has developed a large core audience of more than 1200 listeners. Concerts in a wide range of formats take place regularly, taking the orchestra to venues as diverse as the Gasteig, the Herkulessaal in the Munich Residenz and the Festsaal of the Munich Künstlerhaus on Lenbachplatz. Time and again, the joy of making music and the good, family atmosphere at the concerts have been met with an enthusiastic response from audiences and the press alike.
The founder and principal conductor of the Munich Chamber Philharmonic dacapo, Franz Schottky, is one of the last and closest students of the legendary conductor Sergiu Celibidache, who worked in Munich from 1979 to 1996. The tradition of the full and at the same time transparent ‘German orchestral sound’ goes back to Celibidache's teacher Wilhelm Furtwängler.
