Stabat Mater

Helmuth Rilling's recordings of the great oratorios over the decades would often feature outstanding young singers, whose international careers he con-founded, assisting them in their later and their meteoric rise. For example, Thomas...

Die Schöpfung

Helmuth Rilling's recordings of numerous large oratorios during the past few decades have become the standard reference. Not the least because of the work of his long-time ensemble and the many outstanding singers. Above all, his inspiring...

Helmuth Rilling - Personal Selection

On May 29th 2013, Helmuth Rilling, the founder and artistic director of the Gächinger Kantorei and the Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, will celebrate his 80th Birthday! The spiritual father of the complete edition of the works of J. S. Bach on...

The Complete Orchestral Works

The complete recording of works by J.S. Bach performed by the Gächinger Kantorei, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart, as well as numerous top singers and instrumentalists under the leadership of Helmuth Rilling is a musical landmark! From this...

Paulus op. 36

Helmuth Rilling has recorded numerous large oratorios in the past decades, always working with outstanding singers and well-known ensembles. He recorded Mendelssohn's "Paulus" together with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, who is...

Elias

Helmuth Rilling has recorded numerous large oratorios in the past decades, always working with outstanding singers - often long before they became known internationally. Christine Schäfer, who participates in this performance, is such a...

Requiem of Reconciliation - englisch

Der Onkel aus Boston

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s youthful opera "The Uncle from Boston" was presented with great success for the first time 180 years since its composition at the New Philharmonic in Essen in October 2004. The work was recorded by the West...

Psalms No. 42, 98, 114, 115

Throughout the 19th century, many German composers wrote reams of sacred music for use in the church. Sadly, much of this music has been lost and forgotten to posterity, primarily due to the competition between music for religious...

Lord Nelson Mass & Creation Mass

The so-called "Lord Nelson" Mass dates from 1798 when the composer was 66 and in the middle of an autumnal creative outburst that included "The Seasons", "The Creation" and the three great late Masses. Two stories explaining the origins of...

St. John Passion and St. John Easter

World Premiere Recording

Gubaidulina's mammoth St. John was written in two parts, the Passion to a commission from the International Bach Academy in Stuttgart to celebrate the 250th anniversary of J. S. Bach in September 2000, with the...

Halleluja Vol. 2

Celebrate the artistry of Helmuth Rilling with this program featuring some of the Maestro’s greatest
recorded performances.
Maestro Rilling has established himself as one of the greatest interpreters of sacred choral music in the
20th...

Credo

Der Messias

For the most festive hours of the year - G.F.Händel's Messiah arranged by Mozart.
Enjoy this wonderful oratorio, the majestic sound and the great choir excellent interpreted by Helmuth Rilling and his Gächinger Kantorei, the Bach-...

Gloria

Helmuth Rilling requires NO introduction! Here is a JOYOUS celebration of the artistry of one of the World’s Greatest living choral conductors – with an intelligent program that will thrill Mass Market consumers, Choral Collectors and...

Heimkehr aus der Fremde op. 89

Mendelssohn aspired throughout his short life to produce a successful opera. His numerous attempts seldom succeeded as effective stage-productions but always included lovely musical scores. Even though Mendelssohn had both personal and...

War Requiem - 2 SACDs

Britten's "War Requiem" may be one of the largest and most shaking works of the 20th century. The work was an immediate success following its premiere on May 30th 1962 for the rededication of Coventry Cathedral (which had been destroyed...

Theresa Mass & Mass In The Time Of War

Haydn's Mass in B flat Major, Hob. XXII:12, is the fourth of the six great concerted masses that he composed in his later years, all of them used to celebrate the name-day of Princess Marie Hermenegilde Esterházy, the wife of Haydn's...

Wind Band Mass & "Heilig" Mass

In time for the Haydn Year in 2009, Helmuth Rilling has now completed his recordings of the six late Haydn Masses. Each performance draws together different singers and orchestras who Rilling has worked with for many years - equally...

Messa da Requiem

Giuseppe Verdi composed his famous "Requiem" in 1874 on the occasion of the first anniversary of the death of the great writer Alessandro Manzoni, author of the famous novel "I promessi sposi" (The Betrothed).
The colors of the score...

Bach-Edition: The Complete Works (172 CDs & CDR)

The 10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of hänssler CLASSIC's EDITION BACHAKADEMIE:
The Complete Works of Johann Sebastian Bach under the direction of Helmuth Rilling!

Globally recognized as the ONLY authoritative edition of Bach's...

The Complete Cantatas

At the center of Bach's amazing output stand the more than 200 surviving cantatas. While these works are rightly regarded as timeless masterpieces, the majority were performed only once or twice. Bach's church cantatas were composed during...

Halleluja

The most beautiful works for choir of Bach, Beethoven, Händel, Mendelssohn Bartholdy and many more.

Artists: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart, Frankfurter Kantorei, Prager Philharmonischer Chor, Bach-Collegium Stuttgart...