Season 2024/25 – Bach and much more!

Subscription concerts Stuttgart & Ludwigsburg
Hin und weg! • Musikalischer Salon
BachBewegt!Tanz! • BachBewegt!Singen!
Christmas Concerts • Guest Concerts
Internationales Bachfest Stuttgart 2025

The complete program

Händel Messiah

Abonnementkonzert 1 Stuttgart
So 13. Oktober 2024, 19 Uhr
Liederhalle • Beethoven-Saal
Verónica Cangemi • Marie Henriette Reinhold
Benedikt Kristjánsson • Tobias Berndt
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann

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Matthäus-Passion

Abonnementkonzert 1 Ludwigsburg
So 17. November 2024, 18 Uhr
Ludwigsburg • Forum am Schlosspark
Miriam Feuersinger • Lucy de Butts
Alex Potter • Tobias Knaus • Guy Cutting
Christoph Pfaller • Matthias Winckhler
Tobias Berndt • Martin Schicketanz
Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann

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Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart

Ensemble: Gaechinger Cantorey • Artistic Director: Prof. Hans-Christoph Rademann
Foundation under civil law • Founded in 1981 by Helmuth Rilling

New CD release

VISION.BACH – Vol.5 published

Half is complete! The fifth of ten double CDs in our VISION.BACH cantata project has been released and brings together six more wonderful works from Bach's first year in Leipzig: “Höchsterwünschtes Freudenfest” BWV 194.2, “O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort” BWV 60, “Es reißet euch ein schrecklich Ende” BWV 90, “Wacht! betet! betet! wachet!” BWV 70.2, “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland” BWV 61 and “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag” BWV 63.

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OPUS KLASSIK for VISION.BACH
June 24, 2024

OPUS KLASSIK for VISION.BACH!

Great joy: Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Gaechinger Cantorey have been awarded the OPUS KLASSIK 2024 in the category "Choral Recording of the Year" for "Johann Sebastian Bach: The First Cantata Year" Vol. 1. The double CD on the hänssler Classic music label compiles Bach's first cantatas from his first year in office as Leipzig's Thomaskantor; the entire project is set to comprise 10 double albums.

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March 9-23, 2025

International Bachfest Stuttgart 2025

In March 2025, the new International Bach Festival Stuttgart (made by Bachakademie) will bring together young and experienced artists from all over the world to engage in a dialog between Bach's music and other musical forms and contexts. Under the motto "Bach and Latin America", we invite you to a colorful, exciting program of music, dance and conversations. A meeting place for all generations, from baroque fans to the curious. A place for exchange and encounters, for rediscoveries and new discoveries. Subscribe to our newsletter now!

www.bachfest-stuttgart.de
Bachwoche Stuttgart 2024

"With an overwhelming effect"

- said the Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung newspaper about last weekend's acclaimed performance of Bach's St. John Passion. On Sunday, the Bach Week Stuttgart 2024 came to a moving conclusion with this work in the Liederhalle. An entire week with a total of 21 events was dedicated to the dramatic Passion according to St. John. A summary in words and pictures.

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Michael Hörrmann © Staatliche Schlösser und Gärten Baden-Württemberg
Academy management

Michael Hörrmann becomes new managing director

The Board of the Bachakademie has appointed Michael Hörrmann as the new Managing Director of the International Bachakademie Stuttgart. He will take up his post at Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Platz on February 21, 2024. The historian Michael Hörrmann is an experienced cultural manager and has excellent connections in the city and state. We look forward to working with him and wish Michael Hörrmann a good start in our "well-tempered" environment in the building on Johann-Sebastian-Bach-Platz.

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New CD release

Puccini! – Verdi!

Puccini and Verdi, the grand masters of Italian opera, both gained their first musical experiences in a church music environment. Our new CD combines the "Quattro pezzi sacri" by the 80-year-old Giuseppe Verdi with the lively Messa by the youthful Giacomo Puccini. The result is a rousing live recording of the concert from April 2023, featuring the Gaechinger Cantorey, the Dresden Chamber Choir, the Stuttgart Philharmonic Orchestra as well as Sung Min Song and Krešimir Stražanac under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann.

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New in the Mediathek

Händel – »Jephtha«

"Jephtha" – Handel's magnificent oratorical masterpiece, which opened the 22-23 season, can now be experienced in all its glory in the Mediathek – as the very finest foretaste of the new season, which will launch another Handel oratorio with "Samson": Hans-Christoph Rademann and the Gaechinger completely in their element!

Mediathek
Publications

Journal article about the Bach Academy

The 26th volume of the Yearbook on Music in Baden-Württemberg presents, among other things, a selection of music festivals and organizers in Baden-Württemberg. We are pleased to release a special online publication of the extensive article on the history of the Bachakademie and its music festivals, both in the original German version and in English translation, for edifying reading.

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Helmuth Rilling (photo Holger Schneider)
Anniversary

90th birthday of academy founder Helmuth Rilling

Milestones of his work include the founding of the International Bach Academy Stuttgart in 1981, the "Requiem of Reconciliation" in 1995, the first complete recording of the music of the Thomaskantor for the Bach Year 2000, and the Passion settings of four composers from four cultural backgrounds premiered in the same year. - On May 29, Helmuth Rilling celebrated his 90th birthday together with his family near Stuttgart.

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Concert impressions

2023 – Ten years of BachBewegt!Tanz!

With two moving and acclaimed performances of Bach's St. John Passion at the Ludwigsburg Forum am Schlosspark on February 18/19, we celebrated the tenth anniversary of the dance and music education project BachBewegt!Tanz! With a selection of pictures from the two performances, we would like to express our sincere thanks to all those involved on and behind the stage, to our sponsors, and especially to our terrific audience!

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Mediathek

Film docu about BachBewegt!Singen!

In the 2021/22 school year, BachBewegt!Singen! reached its high point in cooperation with dm-drogerie markt: In May 2022, around 200 schoolchildren each participated in six concerts around Stuttgart. The focus was Joseph Haydn's oratorio "The Creation," which Karsten Gundermann arranged especially for this project in view of the responsibility towards our natural environment. New in the media library: the moving film documentary by Andreas Kessler.

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New CD release

Joseph Haydn – The Creation

Finally on CD: In his timeless classic, Haydn creates a musical world with such a variety of tonal means of expression that one cannot escape its radiance. Haydn teaches us to "see with our ears", we hear the creation of the elements, get to see the most diverse animals before our mind's eye and experience the birth of the first human beings: the miracle of creation.

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