Camerata Bachiensis

Julia Kirchner (soprano)

Roberto De Franceschi (oboe, flute)

Anne Kaun (violin)

Friederike Lehnert (violin)

Magdalena Schenk-Bader (violin, viola)

Isolde Winter (cello)

Philipp Weihrauch (cello, violone)

Julia Chmielewska (harpsichord)

Artist message

The region considered to be the heart of Germany - including Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt - has a long and rich musical tradition. Today, the most famous of its native composers is clearly Johann Sebastian Bach, but many other great musicians lived and worked in this region during the 18th century, musicians who are much less famous now than they were during their lifetimes.

We - Camerata Bachiensis from Leipzig - enjoy bringing great works by less well-known composers to light, and so in this programme we have included treasures by the composers Johann Friedrich Fasch and Christoph Graupner along with Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel and Johann Melchior Molter – we especially want to honour the latter two since it is their anniversary this year.

Let your ear be enchanted by lively chamber music and bright sacred cantatas that emerged from the heart of Germany and still reach out to grab the hearts of the audience.

About the project

You love baroque music by Bach, Händel and Telemann. But have you ever heard of a composer named Stölzel? Do you know the music by Fasch, Graupner or Molter?

 NO?!

Then it is time for a concert with Music from the Heart of Germany and Camerata Bachiensis.

The region considered to be the heart of Germany - including Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt - has a long and rich musical tradition. Today the most famous of its native composers is clearly Johann Sebastian Bach. But many other great musicians lived and worked in this region during the 18th century. Musicians who are much less famous now than they were during their lifetimes, although some of them enjoyed in those days a reputation that even exceeded the one of the famous Leipziger Thomaskantor Bach.

The award-winning early music ensemble Camerata Bachiensis from Leipzig aims to bring great works by less well-known composers to light as well as less-known music by famous composers. The young musicians want to give their audience an understanding of the music that was played at the numerous courts and churches of Central Germany during the 18th century. Therefore the ensemble presents a unique programme with precious treasures found in German archives and libraries. It is a concert with sacred cantatas for soprano and instrumental works for oboe, flute and strings by the composers Johann Friedrich Fasch, Christoph Graupner, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel and Johann Melchior Molter. The latter two personalities build the centre of the programme in order to commemorate their anniversaries in 2015: the 325th birthday of Stölzel and Molter's 250th day of death.

The Music from the heart of Germany will enchant the ear through lively chamber music and bright sacred cantatas that after more than 250 years still reach out to grab the hearts of the audience.