Coro Maghini

Coro Maghini: The “Coro Maghini” is a professional choir, established in 1995 after a first cooperation with the Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI (the National Symphonic Orchestra of the Italian National Public Broadcasting Company).

With this Orchestra, the Choir performed the most important works in the symphonic-choral repertoire, from Bach to Britten. It has been conducted by Ottavio Dantone, Helmuth Rilling, Christopher Hogwood, Robert King, Simon Preston, Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos, Jeffrey Tate, Juraj Valčuha, Kirill Petrenko, Kristian Järvi, Alessandro De Marchi, Gianandrea Noseda. It took part in the Semana de Musica Religiosa in Cuenca (Spain), in the Festival di Musica Antica di Bruges and in several editions of the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik; the Choir participates regularly in the festival MiTo Settembre Musica in Turin and Milan. The Choir’s concerts are regularly broadcast on RAI Radio 3 and RAI 5; its recordings have been issued by RAI, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Stradivarius.
Along with the repertoire for Choir and Orchestra, the Coro Maghini, led by his conductor Claudio Chiavazza, has performed a significant part of the most important a cappella repertoire, including the complete Motets by Bach, or Romantic works by Mendelssohn, Brahms, Liszt, Bruckner, up to the twentieth-century repertoire with works by Arvo Pärt, Penderecki, Nysted.