The Gaechinger Cantorey are the ensembles of the International Bach Academy Stuttgart and unite top European musicians under the baton of academy director Hans-Christoph Rademann. Since the 2016/17 season, this name marks a new era for the Bach Academy's already world-renowned ensembles, which for decades served as Bach ambassadors as the Bach Collegium Stuttgart and the Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling. Now a newly founded baroque orchestra and the reformed choir combine to form a homogeneous original sound ensemble. The goal is to develop a new "Stuttgart Bach style" that will embody the hallmark of a Bach Academy of the future.
- This event has already taken place.
ST. JOHN'S PASSION
29 January 2023 @ 20:00
"The Gaechinger Cantorey is ... an experience. In the Great Hall there was a special highlight" wrote Marcus Stäbler in the Hamburger Abendblatt about the Elbphilharmonie debut a year ago: "The performers work magic, and the Great Hall works magic with them... Hans-Christoph Rademann models the mood changes of the [Nelson] Mass vividly and grippingly. With the 36 singers of his brightly awake choir, with whom he fans out a wide palette of dynamic shadings and finds enchanting colors again and again. With the no less strong orchestra of the Gaechinger Cantorey, which plays transparently and vividly on historical instruments."
Now the artists return with Johann Sebastian Bach's St. John Passion. First performed 299 years ago, it is still one of the most moving and at the same time effective works in music history. The Gospel account of Christ's suffering and death is presented here in an extremely touching manner. Thus, the work is able to give comfort and confidence to engage us in a world that is still highly imperfect today, where violence and injustice continue to reign.