Bach wrote just three large-scale choral works that he called oratorios, all in the space of a couple of years in the mid 1730s. Each was identified with a different season of the church year - ...

Written in 1734, J. S. Bach's popular Christmas work is one of the choral masterpieces of the Baroque era - but the great composer took all of its tunes from other works. Towards the end of J. S. Bach ...

The annual performance of a Christmas Oratorio is happening this weekend. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS anchor Brett Hoffland sat down with Matthias Maute, Artistic Director at the Bach Society of Minnesota, to ...

Since he took over the Gewandhaus orchestra five years ago, Riccardo Chailly has been including the music that is closely associated with Leipzig in his programmes, not just Mendelssohn and Schumann, ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Take note, Baroque music lovers. Apollo’s Fire is about to present something quite rare indeed. If this were Europe, there’d be little to report. This being the United States, ...

In the great opening chorus, Jauchzet, frohlocket, of the first of the six separate cantatas that Bach assembled under the title Christmas Oratorio, conductor/violinist Richard Tognetti, the Choir of ...

Old friends and past collaborators the VocalEssence Ensemble Singers and the Bach Society of Minnesota will join once again to present Bach's Christmas Oratorio. There will be two opportunities to ...

Bach’s Magnificat is the most concise of his major choral works but contains some of the composer’s most profound religious expression, from the intimate to the fervent.Conducting from a seated ...

“Music to combat grief” is John Eliot Gardiner’s apt description of Bach’s Actus Tragicus, coupled on this CD with a timely performance of the Easter Oratorio. Gardiner’s long, in-depth experience of ...

Joining the Society as soloists are Laquita Mitchell, soprano, Lucia Bradford, mezzo-soprano, Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor, and Adam Lau, bass, together with the Orchestra of the Society, all led by ...

Spreading the six cantatas that make up Bach’s Christmas Oratorio over the 12 days of Christmas, as originally intended, could be just the way to occupy the festive season. John Butt and his Dunedin ...

The life of Jesus Christ is probably the world's most narrated story, but the 2021 Bach Festival in Leipzig still managed a premiere with its uniquely original presentation. The world-famous St.