VISION.BACH
"Understanding life with Bach"
The 2023/24 season of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart will focus on Johann Sebastian Bach's first year in Leipzig. With true fervor, the new Thomaskantor threw himself into the composition and performance of new cantatas beginning on May 20, 1723: Leipzig worshipers heard over sixty pieces of this kind by Trinity Sunday of the following year. Sunday after Sunday, holiday after holiday, Christmas, Easter, Ascension and Pentecost included. Exactly 300 years later, all of these cantatas will be heard in 23 concerts in Stuttgart and the surrounding area with the Gaechinger Cantorey under the direction of Hans-Christoph Rademann.
The VISION
VISION.BACH is the name of this ambitious project. VISION, to give an idea of what Bach actually achieved in this short span of time. VISION, because with his music he obviously succeeded in addressing the people who heard it week after week in Leipzig, in illustrating, deepening, interpreting the word of the Gospel with a new, individual art. VISION to think again about this music, about what it has to say to us today in connection with the texts.
This is exactly the VISION of the Bach Academy: to translate Bach's music into our time. For over forty years. So now some sixty cantatas want to be performed by a single ensemble, the Gaechinger Cantorey, under a single conductor, Hans-Christoph Rademann. In the approximate intervals of Bach's practice, in churches of the city of Stuttgart and its surroundings for as many Bach-loving people as possible.
... also on CD!
The recordings of the cantatas appear as a collection of 10 double CDs on the Hänssler Classic label.
The 23 VISION.BACH concerts
01 – Sun May 14, 2023 – Vom Licht der Vernunft – Cantatas BWV 75, 76
02 – Sat June 24, 2023 – Den Nächsten nicht vergessen – Cantatas BWV 21, 24, 185, 167, 147
03 – Sat July 8, 2023 – Die Welt als große Wüstenei – Cantatas BWV 186, 136
04 – Frt July 21, 2023 – Dem Vater die Rechnung übergeben – Cantatas BWV 105, 46, 76
05 – Thu August 1, 2023 – Macht dies wohl einen Christen aus? – Cantatas BWV 179, 199, 105
06 – Sat Sept. 9, 2023 – Die Zehn Gebote – Cantatas BWV 69a, 77
07 – Sat Sept. 16, 2023 – Die Obrigkeit ist Gottes Gabe – Cantatas BWV 25, 119
08 – Sat Oct. 7, 2023 – Armut tötet – Cantatas BWV 138, 95, 48
09 – Sat Oct. 14, 2023 – Himmelsglanz und Höllenflammen – Cantatas BWV 162, 109, 89
10 – Sat Nov. 18, 2023 – Vergehe, Welt, mit deiner Pracht – Cantatas BWV 163, 194
11 – Sat Nov 25, 2023 – Der Geist ist willig, doch das Fleisch ist schwach – Cantatas BWV 60, 90, 70
12 – Sun Dec. 17, 2023 – Er stürzt die Mächtigen vom Thron – Cantatas BWV 61, 63, Magnificat BWV 243a
13 – Fri Dec. 29, 2023 – Sehet, welch eine Liebe – Cantatas BWV 40, 64
14 – Sa Jan. 6, 2024 – Stürmt, ihr Trübsalswetter – Cantatas BWV 190, 153, 65
15 – Sat Jan. 13, 2024 – Die Stimme meines Freundes – Cantatas BWV 154, 155
16 – Sat Jan 20, 2024 – Vom Sterben in Frieden – Cantatas BWV 73, 81, 83
17 – Sat Feb. 17, 2024 – Ein andrer sorgt nur für den Bauch – Cantatas BWV 144, 181, 18
18 – Sat Feb. 24, 2024 – Meine Seel’ auf Rosen geht – Cantata BWV 182
19 – Sat April 6, 2024 – Der Himmel lacht! – Cantatas BWV 4, 31, 66
20 – Sat April 13, 2024 – Der Liebe Kraft – Cantatas BWV 134, 67
21 – Sat April 27, 2024 – Was nützen meine Sorgen? – Cantatas BWV 104, 12, 166
22 – Sun May 12, 2024 – Zum Himmel wandern – Cantatas BWV 86, 37, 44
23 – Fri May 31, 2024 – Erschallet, ihr Lieder! – Cantatas BWV59, 172, 173, 184, 165
VISION.BACH – breathtaking!
VISION.BACH – historical!
VISION.BACH – in conversation!
In each concert of VISION.BACH we welcome a public figure, with whom we get into conversation about the respective topic of the concerts. Among others we are looking forward to: Dr.-Ing. E. h. Peter Leibinger, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Eckstein, Landtagspräsidentin Muhterem Aras, ARD-Korrespondent Hans-Jörg Armbruster, Historikerin Prof. Dr. Hedwig Richter, Schriftstellerin Anna Katharina Hahn, and many more...
VISION.BACH – at special places!
VISION.BACH makes a stop at special places: in Stuttgart halls (Liederhalle) and churches (Christuskirche Gänsheide, Gedächtnis-, Johannes-, Gaisburger Kirche) as well as in the surrounding area, the collegiate churches in Tübingen and Herrenberg, the Schlosskirche Ludwigsburg, the Stadtkirche Schorndorf and the festival hall at the Blarerplatz in Esslingen. Heilsbronn Minster (as part of the Ansbach Bach Week) and Arnstadt Bach Church (as part of the Thuringia Bach Weeks) are among the venues for this unique project, as are churches in Freiberg and Leipzig.
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