Helmuth Rilling: The Weimar Bach Cantata Academy – Lecture and Concert I

Synopsis

For this edition of the Weimar Bach Cantata Academy, which forms part of the Thuringia Bach Festival, the great Bach interpreter and promoter, Helmuth Rilling, invited young musicians from across the world to come to Germany to study and perform Bach’s cantatas in their authentic location in Weimar. 63 musicians from 18 countries were chosen from countless applicants who evolved in the shortest time into an excellent choir and orchestra with immense enthusiasm and great musical talent. This documentation by director Tilo Krause shows impressions of the Academy as well as of concerts in the historic Bach places in Muehlhausen, Arnstadt and Eisenach. With the Bach Cantata Academy Ensemble and selected soloists Helmuth Rilling performs and explains two cantatas in lecture concerts – an intensive course on the cantatas with one of the leading specialists of our time. PROGRAM Bach: Cantata “Aus der Tiefen rufe ich, Herr, zu dir”, BWV 131

Additional Info

• No: A055505330000
• Composer: J.S. Bach
• Conductor: Helmuth Rilling
• Orchestra: Bach Cantata Academy Ensemble
• Production year: 2016
• Run time: 01:10:00
• Director: Tilo Krause
• Producers: A co-production of TK Film Production, Thüringer Bachwochen, HfM Weimar, Friends of Helmuth Rilling and UNITEL CLASSICA
• Format: HDTV 16:9