Gächinger Kantorei

The Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, now based in Stuttgart, is one of nationally and internationally choir, which was founded in 1954 in Gächingen ( in Reutlingen) by Helmuth Rilling, who heads the ensemble until today.

Initially, the choir devoted largely of a cappella music from the 16th, 17th and 20th century, only to expand his repertoire on the a cappella works of the Romantic period. 1965 began an ongoing collaboration with the Bach - Collegium Stuttgart, also founded by Rilling, coupled with a shift of focus to the repertoire of vocal and instrumental music of the 18th and 19th centuries.

In the 1960s, led first concert tours to East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, first tour in the United States followed in 1968. 1976 denied the choir together with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Israeli premiere of A German Requiem by Brahms. In the 1980s took place in concert tours to Poland and Moscow.

Today, the choir has performed with various orchestras regularly at home and abroad ( International Bach Academy in Stuttgart, Salzburg Festival, Lucerne Festival, the Prague Spring ). In 1985, the Gächinger choir after 15 years as the world's first complete recording of all sacred cantatas and oratorios of Johann Sebastian Bach in Haenssler Verlag. Among the numerous premiered by the Kantorei Gächinger works, about the Messa per Rossini, see (1988 ), Litany of Arvo Pärt (1994 ) or Deus passage ( Passion according to Luke pieces ) by Wolfgang Rihm ( 2000).

The Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart is no standing professional ensemble, but project-related occupied from a solid base of choir members from all over Germany, mostly graduates of a music study.