Bach Festivals & Cantata Series
Ciclo Cantatas de Bach en Madrid

Name:

Ciclo Cantatas de Bach en Madrid
Integral de las Cantatas de Bach en Madrid
Ciclo de Cantatas de Bach en las Iglesias de Madrid
Ciclo Música en las Iglesias - Las Cantatas de Bach
Música en las Iglesias: Cantatas de Juan Sebastián Bach
Ciclo Las Cantatas de J.S. Bach - Música en Recintos Históricos
Ciclo Integral de Música Vocal de Bach en Madrid

Location:

Madrid, Spain

Venues:

Various Churches in Madrid (more than 30 churches)

Years:

2004-2012 (75 programmes)

Months:

October-June (7-9 programmes a year, each programee included 2-4 cantatas and was performed twice in inconsecutive days at the same venue)

Artistic Director:

Óscar Gershensohn
Organization: Ayuntamiento de Madrid & Concejalía de Las Artes.

Ensembles:

Main Ensemble: La Capilla Real de Madrid (Direcor: Óscar Gershensohn)
Guest Ensembles:
Hippocampus (Director: Alberto Martínez Molina)
Grupo de Música Barroca La Folía
Ars Combinatoria (Director: Canco López)
Estil Concertant
Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla (Director: Gustav Leonhardt)
La Tempestad
Coro "Ciudad de León"
Vespres d’Arnadí (Director: Dani Espasa)
Cor de Cambra del Palau de la Música Catalana (Director:Jordi Casas i Bayer)
Helsinki Baroque Orchestra (Director: Aapo Häkkinen)
Los Músicos de Su Alteza (Director: Luis Antonio González Marín)
Orquesta Barroca de Salamanca (Director: Pedro Gandía)
Los Músicos del Buen Retiro (Director: Isabel Serrano, Violin)
La Real Cámara (Director: Emilio Moreno)
Coro de Niños de da Comunidad de Madrid
Coro de Niños Ciudad de León
Grupo Instrumentale Barroco (Director: David de la Calle)

Website:

La Capilla Real de Madrid (Official Website)
Ciclo Cantatas de Bach en Madrid on Facebook

History & Mission:

J.S. Bach has been the main composer in the activity of La Capilla Real de Madrid. In the 1999-2000 season it performed a series of ten concerts under the sponsorship of the Madrid Region. Programmes like St. John Passion (BWV 245), Christmas Oratorio (BWV 248), Mass in B minor (BWV 232), his Cantatas and Motets, were then heard by more than 5,000 people who met for the 250th anniversary celebration of the Maestro Kantor.

A few years later, in 2004, La Capilla Real de Madrid started a huge project: to perform and conduct as the host ensemble the Series of Complete Cantatas by J.S. Bach in more than 30 churches of Madrid. In this project, which finished in December 2012, 150 concerts were performed and 200 Cantatas sung including all his Oratories, Masses, Motets and Passions and welcomed more than 70,000 people.

Recent Concerts:

See: Details of Concerts

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