Roland Bader

Although he is best known as a choral conductor, Roland Bader has also been active in front of voiceless orchestras, recording the music of Weill, Paderewski, Joachim, and some lesser-known composers throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Yet Bader's primary interest has been choral music, a fact borne out by his recordings of mainstream and offbeat eighteenth and nineteenth century masses and other liturgical works by the likes of Mozart, Bruch, Beethoven, Bruckner, Weber, and even Nicolai, Suppé, and Donizetti. Bader studied at the Stuttgart Musikhochschule. His career was rather s...