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The Leipziger Cantorey was founded in 2012 by the acting Thomaskantor Gotthold Schwarz unites members and guests of the MDR Rundfunkchor Leipzig into a virtuoso ensemble. In addition to the idea to deal with the historical performance practice and Baroque sound imagination, the singers have great pleasure in playing music in small cast. In addition, they also perform the solos from the ensemble in all concerts.
The repertoire of Leipziger Cantorey ranges from J.S. Bach (Johannes-Passion (BWV 245), cantatas, motets and masses), Georg Philipp Telemann (Schwanengesang) and George Frideric Handel (Messias) to Haddock, a work by Stephan König, on the occasion of a farewell concert was premiered for the former Thomaskantor Georg Christoph Biller in 2015.
The Leipziger Cantorey has, much praised by the press, rescued a permanent place in the cultural life in their hometown, appeared several times as part of the MDR Musiksommers in Thuringia and Saxony and could be heard also in Berlin and Stockholm. They have often performed together with the Sächsisches Barockorchester Leipzig and the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin (2016) and Musica Alta Ripa (2017). For 2018, the ensemble was invited for the third time to the traditional commemorative concert on the anniversary of the death of J.S. Bach in the Thomaskirche in Leipzig and planned a tour to Israel.
In recent years, the MDR has made various concert recordings. In 2015, the first CD "von Bach zu Bach" (double choir motes of the Bach family) was released. |
