Christmas oratorio:Weihnachtsoratorium : BWV 248
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Arthaus Musik,
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Publisher Address: | Leipzig |
Publication Dates: | [2000] |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | German |
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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 |
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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. |