Gaechinger Cantorey

The Gaechinger Cantorey is the ensemble of the Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart. It combines a baroque orchestra and a hand-picked choir which together form a perfectly-blended early music ensemble. Under the baton of Akademie Director Hans-Christoph Rademann, the ensemble flies the flag for the “Stuttgart Bach style” on the international stage. The backbone to this distinctive Bach style sound is embodied in two replica instruments commissioned by the Bachakademie of originals from the workshop of Bach’s legendary contemporary Gottfried Silbermann (1683–1753): in 2016 the Akademie acquired a copy of a chamber organ by Silbermann discovered in Seerhausen, Saxony, and a copy of a Silbermann harpsichord completed the ensemble’s keyboard instruments in 2021. These two examples of a baroque sound faithful to the original form the heart of the Gaechinger Cantorey’s distinctive sound.