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Christmas oratorio：Weihnachtsoratorium : BWV 248

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Main Authors: Bach Johann Sebastian 1685-1750. (music by Johann Sebastian Bach ; a coproduction of BBC Wales, EuroArts Leipzig.)
Corporate Authors: BBC Wales; EuroArts Music International GmbH; English Baroque Soloists; Monteverdi Choir
Group Author: Morris Fiona (Producer); Coles Bob (Director); Gardiner John Eliot (Conductor); McFadden Claron (Performer); Fink Bernarda (Performer); Genz Christoph (Performer); Henschel Dietrich 1967- (Performer); Smaczny Paul (Producer); Iturriagagoitia Isabel (Producer)
Published: Arthaus Musik,
Publisher Address: Leipzig
Publication Dates: [2000]
Literature type: Book
Language: German
Subjects:
Christmas music
Oratorios
Cantatas, Sacred
Item Description: Weihnachts-Oratorium
Carrier Form: 2 videodiscs (198 min.): sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Index Number: J652
CLC: J652.8
Call Number: #WDVD/130038
Contents: Recorded at the Herderkirche, Weimar, December, 23 and 27 1999.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Program notes in English, German and French (26 p. : ill. ; 18 cm.) inserted in container.
Special features include: documentary films: Jauchzet Frohlocket! : the start of John Eliot Gardiner's Bach cantata pilgrimage; Bach revisited : John Eliot Gardiner in Saxony and Thuringia / TV director, Bob Coles ; producer, Claus Wischmann ; director Manfred Waffender.
disc 1. Cantatas I-III -- disc 2. Cantatas IV-VI.
"Bach's Christmas Oratorio is among his most joyous music. Although not actually an oratorio - it is really a series of six cantatas - it was written for the 1734-1735 Christmas celebration in Leipzig. Curiously, to illustrate this, the most sacred of Christian celebrations, Bach chose to "parody" many movements from secular cantatas ... . This recording uses about a dozen musicians and a choir of about twenty, giving the music a very intimate feeling - this is light years away from the heavier performances of this work where a large choir drowns out the musicians"--Musicweb.

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