Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (Instrumental Ensemble)

Founded: Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

The Bach-Collegium Stuttgart (= BCS) is a group of freelance musicians, including players from leading German and foreign Orchestras and respected teachers, whose composition varies according to the requirements of the programme. To avoid being restricted to a particular style, the players use modern instruments, while taking account of what is known about period performance practice. They are thus equally at home in the Baroque ‘sound world’ as in the orchestral sonorities of the 19th century or in the soloistic scoring of composers of our time.

Members of Bach-Collegium Stuttgart:

Violins: Albert Boesen, Hubert Buchberger, Georg Egger, Walter Forchert [Concert-master], Werner Keltsch, Wilhelm Melcher, Gerhard Voss
Cellos: Peter Buck, Hans Häublein, Barbara Haupt-Brauckmann, Martin Ostertag, Helmut Veihelmann, Jürgen Wolf
Double-basses: Harro Bertz, Manfred Gräser, Albert Michael Locher, Thomas Lom
Flutes: Andreas Adorján, Peter-Lukas Graf
Oboes, Oboes d'amore, Oboes da caccia: Manfred Clement, Diethelm Jonas, Klaus Kärcher, Dietmar Keller, Günther Passin, Hedda Rothweiler, Thomas Schwarz, Allan Vogel, Hanspeter Weber, Otto Winter
Bassoons: Kurt Etzold, Günther Pfitzenmaier, Klaus Tunnemann
Trumpets: Karl-Heinz Halder, Rob Roy McGregor, Rudi Scheck, Hans Wolf, Uwe Zaiser
Horns: Johannes Ritzkowski, Bernhard Schmid
Trombones: Hermann Josef Kahlenbach, Rudi Scheck
Timpani: Hans-Joachim Schacht
Organ: David Deffner, Hans-Joachim Erhard, Martha Schuster
Harpsichord: Hans-Joachim Erhard, Martha Schuster

Sources:
Liner notes to the 2-CD album ‘Bach: St. John Passion’ conducted by Helmuth Rilling (Hänssler, 2000)
Contributed by Aryeh Oron (May 2001, September 2015)

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Recordings of Bach Cantatas & Other Vocal Works

Conductor

As

Works

Walter Forchert

Orchestra

[CR-21] (1974?, Radio recording): BWV 21

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