Christmas oratorio, BWV 248, cantatas I-VI -- J.S. Bach: Jauchzet, frohlocket! an introduction to the Christmas oratorio & Bach revisited ; J.E. Gardiner in Saxony and Thuringia / TV director, Bob Coles ; producer, Claus Wischmann ; director, Manfred Waffender.
Summary:
"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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