No 84 Concert and Awarding of the Bach Medal

Twenty years ago, the J. S. Bach Foundation launched an ambitious project: to perform all Bach cantatas. Since then, they have performed one cantata a month – each one twice, with a pause for reflection and packaged together with a vivid introduction to the work. Exquisitely captured in image and sound, these recordings have come to be considered as the absolute online authority where Bach cantatas are concerned. For their standard-setting outreach work, the Foundation is now to receive the City of Leipzig Bach Medal. The award ceremony will simultaneously be a presentation of the matter at the very core of this magnificent undertaking. Because the Bach Foundation protagonists – its founder Konrad Hummler, its conductor Rudolf Lutz and many of the longstanding, gold-standard singers – will look back at the most moving moments of their journey through the universe of Bach cantatas and for us perform their own list of hits (with English translation). Congratulations!