Bach on the net
The St. Gallen Bach Foundation lets interested parties take part in its cantata performances online. Recently, there is also an introduction to baroque improvisation to discover. The Bachakademie Stuttgart offers a similar format.
"Cantata performances impossible - but we're streaming anyway!" This is how the St. Gallen Bach Foundation welcomes visitors to its website bachipedia.org. The coronavirus crisis has temporarily disrupted her schedule of performing all Bach cantatas in recitals by 2027 and making the live recordings accessible worldwide. To bridge the gap, it has now turned its web portal into a showcase for current streaming activities. Similarly, the Stuttgart International Bach Academy is now streaming its concerts under the title Baroque@home has been replaced by highly interesting monthly web podcasts on key works of Baroque music. Both Stuttgart and Sankt Gallen present themselves with high-quality and technically and dramaturgically absolutely professionally produced content. Both make clever use of the educational opportunities offered by the new media and explicitly address the younger generation. The historical discipline of baroque music has firmly established itself on the Internet.
"Everything you always wanted to know about improvisation" is the title of a recently published bachipedia.org published stream with a musical conversation between the musically talented managing director Xoán Castiñeira and Rudolf Lutz, artistic director and mastermind of the entire company. In English, German and Spanish, the two give a relaxed and well-founded introduction to baroque improvisation practice in the empty church of Stein/AR. The audience is spellbound as Lutz improvises a fugue in C sharp minor on the D minor theme of the "Art of Fugue" or musically depicts different emotions when called upon. Creativity born of necessity - the distant past is brought to life in a captivating way. It is not the only contribution on this web portal that will amaze you. Bachipedia.org is accessible to the general public, and those who enter here will find themselves in a veritable treasure trove of baroque music culture.
https://www.bachipedia.org
https://www.bachipedia.org/live_stream/improvisation-20200619/
https://mediathek.bachakademie.de/
