Music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

The Barocchisti and the Swiss Radio and Television Choir will participate in the 2025 edition of the Leipzig Bachfest, the largest international meeting on the Kantor Johann Sebastian Bach, this year dedicated to the theme of “Transformation”. Two appointments are scheduled: on 19 June at 5 p.m. at the Evangelisch Reformierte Kirche the Original Concert versus Parody with G. B. Pergolesi's “Stabat mater” compared with J. S. Bach's Cantata “BWV 1083 Tilge, Höchster, meine Sünden” with performers Michela Antenucci (soprano), Lucia Cirillo (mezzo-soprano), Lydia Teuscher (soprano) and Margot Oitzinger (alto). On Friday 20 June at 8:00 pm in the Nikolaikirche, the cantatas that Bach composed for the Dominica Estomihi or Quinquagesima, i.e. the fiftieth day before Easter, are scheduled: “Jesus nahm zu sich die Zwölfe” (BWV 22), “Du wahrer Gott und Davids Sohn” (BWV 23) from 1723, “Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r Mensch und Gott” (BWV 127) from 1725 and “Sehet, wir gehn hinauf gen Jerusalem” (BWV 159) from 1729, performed by Lydia Teuscher (soprano), Margot Oitzinger (alto), Bernhard Berchtold (tenor) and Henryk Böhm (bass).