Bachwoche Stuttgart 2024

ST. JOHN PASSION(S)
Sunday March 3 – Sunday March 10, 2024
Workshop concerts • Opening concert •
Stunde der Kirchenmusik • Choir concert •
Lunchtime music • Brought to speech •
Master class in recitative singing
Gaechinger Cantorey • JSB Ensemble •
Kathy Saltzman Romey •
Hans-Christoph Rademann

The complete Bachwoche

VISION.BACH

"Understanding life with Bach"

The Bach Cantata Project 2023/24
of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart
From 14 May 2023

Gaechinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann

1 year • 23 concerts • 60 cantatas

Season 23–24

VISION.BACH
Season's Concerts Stuttgart & Ludwigsburg
Bachwoche Stuttgart
BachBewegt!Tanz! & Singen! & Begegnung!
Musical Salon

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

Musikfest Stuttgart

The concerts of the Musikfest Stuttgart 2024

From May 30 to June 8, the International Bach Academy will once again bring world-class artists and ensembles to Stuttgart. Performers include soprano Jeanine de Bique, the King's Singers and Philippe Herreweghe. The music festival offers much more than just top-class evening concerts – there are offers of almost all kinds. Anyone who has always to sing along to Beethoven's "Ode an die Freude" now has the opportunity to do so. Advance sales have started!

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New CD release

VISION.BACH – Vol.1 published

The first of ten double CDs of our cantata project VISION.BACH has been released: five cantatas from Bach's first weeks as Leipzig's Thomaskantor - these are five magnificent treasures, masterfully performed by an exquisite ensemble of soloists from the Gaechinger Cantorey under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann. It's not just worth listening to - it's also worth giving as a gift in a few weeks' time...

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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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