Leipziger Bach-Collegium

The Leipzig Bach Collegium is one of that select number of chamber ensembles in which the virtuosity of the trumpet and corno da caccia are placed in the service of chamber music. The Leipzig Bach Collegium was formed in 1976 at the instigation of Ludwig Güttler in order to help fill a palpable gap in the field of historically informed music making. Since then, its work has centered on the goal of achieving historical performance styles, colorful sonorities, a nuanced articulation and rhetorical declamation with the instruments that are in use today. In its repertoire the ensemble concentrates on the period of Johann Sebastian Bach and also performs works from the early classical era. Its basic concern is to keep alive the multifarious but still unknown musical heritage of the 17th and 18th centuries, and in so doing to tread music with the "freedom of the spirit at play," as it was conceived at that time.