An alternative Weihnachts-Oratorium
Programme
- Georg Philipp Telemann Overture from the Suite in E major
- Johann Sebastian Bach Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
- Dietrich Buxtehude Das neugeborne Kindelein, das herzeliebe Jesulein
- Johann Sebastian Bach Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Johann Sebastian Bach Wie soll ich dich empfangen from the Christmas Oratorio
- Johann Sebastian Bach Und sie gebar ihren ersten Sohn from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- composer anonymous Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ
- Melchior Franck Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein
- Johann Sebastian Bach Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend from the Christmas Oratorio
- Johann Michael Bach Fürchtet euch nicht
- Johann Sebastian Bach Und das habt ihr zum Zeichen from the Christmas Oratorio
- Johann Sebastian Bach Schaut hin from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Arcangelo Corelli Largo from Concerto grosso 'Fatto per la notte di Natale'
- Johann Sebastian Bach Und alsobald war from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Heinrich Schütz Ehre sei dir Gott from the Weihnachts-Historie
- Johann Sebastian Bach Und da die Engel from the Christmas Oratorio
- Johann Sebastian Bach Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem from the Christmas Oratorio
- Johann Sebastian Bach Er hat sein Volk getröst from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Jan Baptist Verrijt Currite pastors
- Arcangelo Corelli Adagio and Presto from Trio Sonata opus 3 no. 4
- Johann Sebastian Bach Und sie kamen eilend from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Johann Sebastian Bach Ich will dich mit Fleiss bewahren from the Weihnachts-Oratorium
- Johann Sebastian Bach Cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61
The Christmas story from Luke 2:1-21 and Bach's musical rendition of it in Bach's Weihnachts-Oratorium form the backbone of this programme. Most of Bach's arias and tutti parts have been replaced by music by other composers. This creates a Christmas pastiche in which the storyline has remained intact. The programme concludes with Bach's cantata Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61; an Advent cantata from Bach's time in Weimar that fits in nicely with the predominantly seventeenth-century atmosphere in the rest of the programme.
Performers
Choir and orchestra of the Dutch Bach Association
Shunske Sato
Conductor
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