Anyway, you have multiple options - not just the greats composed for the churches of St Thomas and St Nicholas but many earlier cantatas from the composer's time in Mühlhausen, Weimar and Köthen. 7, 9) Chorale Text: 64, "Sehet, welch eine Liebe," BWV 64 (BC A15), Chorus. Chorale cantatas rely on the text of one chorale only. Account & Lists Account Returns & Orders. Ein Adam mag sich voller Schrecken, Aria. Check out Bach: Advent And Christmas Cantatas by Karl Richter on Amazon Music. These are Read more marvelously festive works that feature some of Bach's most extroverted music. deine Hand, dein Segen muß allein, Cantata No. These themes appear also in cantatas of later composers. 41, "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset," BWV 41 (BC A22), Recitative. Christmas cantata can also mean the performance of the music. Countertenor Tim Mead takes centre stage in this glorious reading of the first movement of Bach's cantata 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'. Bach’s six Christmas cantatas are often performed but rarely as he originally envisaged, one cantata on each of the six most important feast days of Christmas. It consists of six parts, each part is a complete work and composed for the church service of a specific feast day. o ungemeines Heute, Recitative. Geh, Welt! Free Shipping, Cash on Delivery Available. Bach: Christmas Cantatas. Christmas Oratorio I. His late cantata Gloria in excelsis Deo is derived from the Gloria in his Missa in B minor, which he had composed for the court of Dresden in 1733 and would later incorporate in his Mass in B minor. It included at least three feast days that called for festive music during religious services: apart from Christmas (Nativity of Christ) and Epiphany (Visit of the Magi) the period also included New Year's Day (1 January), in Bach's time still often referred to as the Feast of t… Ralph Vaughan Williams wrote Hodie, and Arthur Honegger composed as his last work Une cantate de Noël for the Basler Kammerchor and their founder Paul Sacher. In the liturgical calendar of the German reformation era in Saxony, the Christmas season started on 25 December (Christmas Day) and ended on 6 January (Epiphany). [3] More of his Christmas cantatas were published in 2007 by Hofmeister. The term is called Weihnachtskantate in German, Cantate de Noël in French. Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel composed for the season 1736/1737 a structure of six cantatas for six feast days around Christmas, similar to Bach's Christmas Oratorio, including Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis. The Cantata BWV 63, "Christen, atzet diesen Tag," opens with an giddy chorus accompanied by trumpets, trombones and timpani--it's breathlessly exciting music. Several composers specifically asked for a children's choir. Bach spent most of his life working as a church composer, so it's no surprise that some of his most enduring and inspiring music celebrates the Christmas season. 5); Martin Luther (Mvts. Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Cantatas For the holiday season, the Collegium Vocale Gent come together to put on a performance of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas cantatas, recorded at Paris' Church of Saint-Roch in December, 2015. He is on record as saying that 'the heart of Bach's music lies in his church cantatas' and that these cantatas 'form a corpus of work which counts as one of the great glories of European music'. Recitative. Amazon.in: Buy Bach:Christmas Cantatas online at low price in India on Amazon.in. Bach, Cantata 3, at Epiphany II. Christmas in Venice (John Eliot Gardiner) Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (Kirov Orchestra, Val... Bach - Christmas Oratorio (Ralf Otto) [2CDs] Bach - Magnificat. All Christmas cantatas consist of several movements, most movements include solo and choral singing. On the Cantatas of J.S. During the romantic era, Felix Mendelssohn composed the chorale cantata Vom Himmel hoch [de] based on Martin Luther's song, and Josef Rheinberger wrote Der Stern von Bethlehem [de] (The star of Bethlehem) on a text by his wife Franziska von Hoffnaaß. Bach retained his original music for the arias, but replaced the recitatives with chorales, so the cantata alternates delightfully between dance movements and more formal hymn settings. Event: Cantata for Christmas Day. 40, "Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes," BWV 40 (BCA 12), Chorus. Doch wie erblickt es dich in deiner Krippe? The best known Christmas cantatas today are those of Johann Sebastian Bach, who composed several cantatas for the three days of Christmas in his three annual cantata cycles (1723 to 1725), also before and afterwards: In the works of Bach's second cycle of chorale cantatas (1724), the text of the chorale is kept for the outer stanzas, but rephrased in poetry for arias and recitatives in the other stanzas. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, his Magnificat and his Advent and Christmas cantatas are frequently performed, but there is much more, which is still little-known. 63, "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag," BWV 63 (BC A8), Recitative. O selger Tag! Readings: Epistle: Titus 2: 11-14 / Isaiah 9: 2-7; Gospel: Luke 2: 1-14. Hello Select your address Music Hello, Sign in. Later composers also set free text, poems and carols. O Menschen, die ihr täglich sündigt, Cantata No. Bach; Harnoncourt, Leonhardt – Christmas Cantatas (Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63: 1. Gabrieli’s acclaimed Bach interpretations, presented “… with flair, a pristine sense of style and infectious energy…” (The Times), are further illuminated by carols and chorales woven around each of the cantatas; in the spirit of the season, … 26 December 2020 Shepherds and Angels Cantata II Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend. Selection of cantatas written for Christmas day by Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV40,63,110.01. O ungemeines Heute" and more). [6] Christmas cantatas were also composed by Geoffrey Bush, Steve Dobrogosz, Geoffrey Grey, Iain Hamilton, Julius Harrison, Hans Uwe Hielscher, Mathilde Kralik, Ivana Loudová, Daniel Pinkham (1957),[7] Ned Rorem, K. Lee Scott, Otto Albert Tichý and Arnold van Wyk, among others. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Christmas is a good time to start, though Advent would have been more official, and in 1723 Bach launched into the first of his three great cantata cycles for Leipzig after Trinity. Christmas cantatas have been written on texts in several other languages, such as Czech, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. That goes, for instance, for Georg Philipp Telemann and Christoph Graupner: the largest part of their cantata output still waits to be discovered, performed and recorded. Bach structured the report from the Gospels which connects the parts to a whole, as told by the Evangelist, in six topics. His cantata Saint Nicolas, written in 1948, after World War II, has also been termed a Christmas cantata. 91, "Gelobet seist su, Jesu Christ," BWV 91 (BC A9), Recitative and Chorale. Text: Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander); Paul Gerhardt (Mvt. Challenge Classics: CC72230. “America’s venerable Bach Choir of Bethlehem sang Bach and Mendelssohn with good-natured and ruddy-cheeked elation. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Bach: Christmas Cantatas - Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir on AllMusic - 2004 I have always thought that Johann Sebastian Bach’s music inspired by Christmas has been overshadowed by his music for the Easter season, so perhaps this set might put this right. 61 tracks (187:44). The result is often nothing short of magic. Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Music for Christmas: Weihnachts-Oratorium, Cantatas, Organ Music rec. Ach! Bach Christmas Oratorio BWV 248. This disc, presenting three cantatas from Bach's early Leipzig period, is no exception. Cantata No. 122, "Das neugeborne Kindelein," BWV 122 (BC A19), Aria. 121, "Christum wir sollen loben schon," BWV 121 (BC A13). Recitativo (Alto) "O selger Tag! The cantata form originated in Italy, alongside the oratorio. Lob, Ehr und Dank sei dir gesagt, Cantata No. English Translation in Parallel Format. Bach Christmas Cantatas 1-3 You Tube ^ | 12/21/20 Posted on 12/21/2020 8:31:38 AM PST by left that other site. Ei nun, mein Gott, so fall ich dir. Bach produced a whole stream of works for the Christmas feast days during his Leipzig years, but Philippe Herreweghe's set focuses on the four cantatas … Behalte nur das Deine, Cantata No. The cantata BWV 63 “Christen, ätzet diesen Tag”, recorded at the same 2002 sessions as the Magnificat, also receives an outstanding performance, recorded in an appropriately bright, richly resonant, cleanly detailed acoustic. Wohlam! In Parts I to IV he followed the Gospel of Luke (Luke 2:3–21), in Parts V and VI the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:1–12). It was preceded by Advent, and followed by the period of the Sundays after Epiphany. Carissimi's pupil Marc-Antoine Charpentier brought the small-scale Latin Christmas oratorio to Paris (In nativitatem Domini canticum), while the vernacular Italian Christmas cantata was developed by composers such as Alessandro Stradella (Si apra al riso ogni labro 1675), Francesco Provenzale[2] (Per la nascita del Verbo 1683) and Alessandro Scarlatti in Naples, Antonio Caldara in Vienna (Vaticini di pace 1713). Skip to main content.ca. 1933) / A Christmas Cantata (2002)", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christmas_cantata&oldid=932566559, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Nun zeiget der Himmel die schönsten Gebärden / In festo nativitate Christi, in the manner of the medieval miracle play, SSA (treble or boy's choir) treble vocal soli, This page was last edited on 26 December 2019, at 21:21. Trumpets feature prominently in many Baroque cantatas as the Royal instruments, for day. 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