RFO with Karina Canellakis - Photo: Eduardus Lee

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 Most of Bach's arias and tutti parts have been replaced by music by other composers.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.

Date:
Thursday 10 December 2020
Time:
21:00
Intermission:
No
Location:
TivoliVredenburg

Utrecht
-
Large Hall

Performers

Nederlandse Bachvereniging (c) Simon van Boxtel
Choir and orchestra of the Dutch Bach Association
Shunske Sato
Conductor, Violin
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