WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln has been played on NTS in shows including Tafelmusik w/ Francesco Fusaro, featured first on 30 July 2019. Songs played include Cinq Chansons Pour Percussion (1980), Violin Concerto No. 1 and Requiem.

The WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne (German: WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln) is a German radio orchestra based in Cologne, where the orchestra mainly performs at two concert halls: the WDR Funkhaus Wallrafplatz and the Kölner Philharmonie.

The orchestra was founded in 1947 by Allied occupation authorities after World War II, as the orchestra of Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk (NWDR; Northwest German Radio), with the name Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester (Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra). The orchestra became…