Rudolf Lutz, the artistic director, is a lecturer in improvisation at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, a leading school for early music, giving him a profound understanding of baroque music.
Interpretation
The ensemble for these recordings consists primarily of young musicians from Switzerland, Southern Germany, and Austria, experienced in historical performance practice.
Recording & Production
This album is part of a larger project by the J. S. Bach Foundation of St Gallen to re-interpret Bach's complete vocal works, spanning approximately 25 years.
Recording & Production
Since October 2006, the J. S. Bach Foundation has performed one cantata per month in the baroque church of Trogen, an Appenzell village near St Gallen, Switzerland.
Recording & Production
The concerts feature a unique format where conductor Rudolf Lutz and theologian Karl Graf introduce the cantata, followed by two performances with a 'reflection' lecture in between.
Compositional Technique
Bach often revisited traditional musical forms and sound ideals of earlier eras, such as the 'stile antico' (old style), imbuing them with a new, creative spirit.
Compositional Technique
In some of his cantata choruses, Bach used a strict motet-like setting where only the four voices present the fugue, with instruments merely doubling the vocal parts, a style considered antiquated in his time.
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