The First Cantata Year - Vision Bach Vol. 9 - BWV 134.3, 67, 104, 12, 166 Gaechinger Cantorey & Hans-Christoph Rademann

• Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - 1750): Cantata BWV 134.3:
• 1 Bach: Cantata BWV 134.3: "Ein Herz, das seinen Jesum lebend weiß" 00:36
• 2 Bach: Cantata BWV 134.3: "Auf, Gläubige" 05:50
• 3 Bach: Cantata BWV 134.3: "Wohl dir, Gott hat an dich gedacht" 02:18
• 4 Bach: Cantata BWV 134.3: "Wir danken und preisen" 08:07
• 5 Bach: Cantata BWV 134.3: " Doch würke selbst den Dank" 01:48
• 6 Bach: Cantata BWV 134.3: " Erschallet, ihr Himmel" 07:08
• Cantata BWV 67:
• 7 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: „Halt im Gedächtnis Jesum Christ“ 03:26
• 8 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: "Mein Jesum ist erstanden" 02:40
• 9 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: "Mein Jesu, heißest du des Todes Gift" 00:27
• 10 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: "Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag" 00:34
• 11 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: "Doch scheinet fast, dass mich der Feinde Rest" 00:47
• 12 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: "Friede sei mit euch" 05:00
• 13 Bach: Cantata BWV 67: "Du Friedefürst, Herr Jesu Christ" 00:57
• Cantata BWV 104:
• 14 Bach: Cantata BWV 104: "Du Hirte Israel, höre" 04:13
• 15 Bach: Cantata BWV 104: "Der höchste Hirte sorgt vor mich" 00:37
• 16 Bach: Cantata BWV 104: "Verbirgt mein Hirte sich zu lange" 03:22
• 17 Bach: Cantata BWV 104: "Ja, dieses Wort ist meiner Seelen Speise" 00:57
• 18 Bach: Cantata BWV 104: "Beglückte Herde, Jesu Schafe" 06:52
• 19 Bach: Cantata BWV 104: "Der Herr ist mein getreuer Hirt" 01:02
• Cantata BWV 12:
• 20 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: Sinfonia 02:23
• 21 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: "Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen" 06:22
• 22 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: "Wir müssen durch viel Trübsal" 00:46
• 23 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: "Kreuz und Krone sind verbunden" 06:35
• 24 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: "Ich folge Christo nach" 01:58
• 25 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: "Sei getreu, alle Pein" 03:16
• 26 Bach: Cantata BWV 12: "Was Gott tut, das ist wohlgetan" 00:58
• Cantata BWV 166:
• 27 Bach: Cantata BWV 166: "Wo gehest du hin" 01:42
• 28 Bach: Cantata BWV 166: "Ich will an den Himmel denken" 06:44
• 29 Bach: Cantata BWV 166: "Ich bitte dich, Herr Jesu Christ" 02:33
• 30 Bach: Cantata BWV 166: "Gleich wie die Regenwasser verfließen" 00:55
• 31 Bach: Cantata BWV 166: "Man nehme sich in acht" 03:23
• 32 Bach: Cantata BWV 166: "Wer weiß, wie nahe mir mein Ende" 01:00
• Total Runtime 01:35:16

Info for The First Cantata Year - Vision Bach Vol. 9 - BWV 134.3, 67, 104, 12, 166

VISION.BACH is the name of this ambitious project. VISION, to convey an idea of what Bach actually achieved in this short period of time. VISION, because he succeeded in appealing to the people who listened to his music week after week in Leipzig, illustrating, deepening and interpreting the word of the Gospel with a new, individual art form. VISION, to reflect once again on this music and what it has to say to us today in connection with the texts.

Understanding life with Bach: ‘Bach sums it all up ... through his music, he helps us understand how to separate the important from the unimportant in life. Music sensitised us ...’ (Hans-Christoph Rademann)

Marie Henriette Reinhold, mezzo-soprano
Patrick Grahl, tenor
Tobias Berndt, baritone
Alex Potter, countertenor
Gächinger Cantorey
Hans-Christoph Rademann, conductor

Gaechinger Cantorey
are the ensembles of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart, bringing together outstanding European musicians under the direction of Akademie Director Hans-Christoph Rademann. Since the 2016/17 season, this name has marked out a new era for the internationally-famous ensembles of the Bachakademie. As Bach ambassadors they had performed for several decades as the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart and Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart under Helmuth Rilling. Now a newly-founded baroque orchestra and newly-constituted choir combine to form a superbly blended period ensemble. The aim is the development of a new ‘Stuttgart Bach style’ which embodies the hallmark of a Bachakademie of the future.

By deciding to have its own baroque orchestra and a choir formed of singers with practical, performing criteria in mind, the Bachakademie has forged a new path. The fundamental sound and unique international selling point of this new approach is reflected in the Bachakademie’s decision to commission a historical replica of a chamber organ by the legendary organ builder and contemporary of Bach, Gottfried Silbermann, recently discovered in 2013 in Seerhausen, Saxony. Its ideal baroque sound, true to the original, embodies the approach at the very heart of the newly-formed ensembles.

The first successful steps on the route to a new ‘Stuttgart Bach style’ were the ensemble’s performances in 2017 at the Musikfest Stuttgart, Bach Week Ansbach, European Music Weeks Festival in Passau, Rheingau Musik Festival, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and six concerts as part of a USA tour in Fort Lauderdale, Chapel Hill, Norfolk, Princeton, Los Angeles and Irvine. In 2018 the musicians of the Gaechinger Cantorey have already performed in the Dresden Kulturpalast, the Bach church in Arnstadt and the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées Paris. In May they tour South America with six concerts, and in June pay a visit to the Bachfest Leipzig to perform in a prominent ‘Cantatas ring’ (with conductors including Masaaki Suzuki, Ton Koopman and Sir John Eliot Gardiner).

The debut CD of the newly-constituted Gaechinger Cantorey ‘Erhalt uns, Herr, bei Deinem Wort’ with Reformation cantatas by J.S. Bach was released in May 2017 by Carus-Verlag in Stuttgart. The critics were enthusiastic: ‘The Gaechinger Cantorey with its new forces and direction is right up at the top amongst the ranks of German baroque ensembles.’ (kulturradio on rbb). Just a few months later in Septemer 2017, a DVD of the St Matthew Passion was released, and in October 2017 a new recording of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, both of which were also extremely well-received. For the future CD recordings of a programme of Bach cantatas, the fourth version of Bach’s St John Passion and G.F. Handel’s Utrecht Te Deum are planned.

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