Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. It is the first Sunday after Christmas. In some instances he deviated from the prescribed readings, rather continuing the tradition of older works by Heinrich Schütz and others.[1]. 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… Bach, book 5, Epiphany to Annunciation. Listen free to J.S. Chorale cantatas rely on the text of one chorale only. 133, "Ich freue mich in dir," BWV 133 (BC A16), Recitative. Herr Gott, dich loben wir! The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Ton Koopman. Cantata texts frequently incorporated Bible quotations and chorale. Skip to main content.ca. Stream ad-free or purchase CD's and MP3s now on Amazon.com. Selection of cantatas written for Christmas day by Johann Sebastian Bach - BWV40,63,110.01. Christmas cantata can also mean the performance of the music. [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. Geh, Welt! Coro "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag", Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63: 2. 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 … A Christmas cantata outside the classical music tradition was the 1986 project The Animals' Christmas by Jimmy Webb and Art Garfunkel. 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's Christmas Oratorio, written for performance in Leipzig in 1734/1735 touches many of these themes. Cantata BWV 248/1 - Shout for joy, exult, rise up, glorify the day. Many choirs have a tradition of an annual Christmas cantata. Free Shipping, Cash on Delivery Available. 27 December 2020 At the Manger Cantata III Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen. Johann Sebastian BACH (1685-1750) Music for Christmas: Weihnachts-Oratorium, Cantatas, Organ Music rec. Christmas in Venice (John Eliot Gardiner) Tchaikovsky - The Nutcracker (Kirov Orchestra, Val... Bach - Christmas Oratorio (Ralf Otto) [2CDs] Bach - Magnificat. What always strikes me about Herreweghe's recordings of Bach is how balanced and refined they are. A Christmas cantata or Nativity cantata is a cantata, music for voice or voices in several … 5); Martin Luther (Mvts. 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. Bach Christmas Cantatas 1-3, over an hour of beautiful music. 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. The Cantata BWV 63, "Christen, atzet diesen Tag," opens with an giddy chorus accompanied by trumpets, trombones and timpani--it's breathlessly exciting music. A playlist featuring Johann Sebastian Bach and Pieter Jan Leusink Hello Select your address Music Hello, Sign in. 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. 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). O ungemeines Heute" and more). 64, "Sehet, welch eine Liebe," BWV 64 (BC A15), Chorus. Doch wie erblickt es dich in deiner Krippe? 191, "Gloria in excelsis Deo," BWV 191 (BC E16), Cantata No. Check out Bach:Christmas Cantatas reviews, ratings, and more details at Amazon.in. [4] Christmas cantatas were also composed by Georg Gebel, Christoph Graupner, Andreas Hammerschmidt, Arnold Brunckhorst, Johann Samuel Beyer, Philipp Buchner, David Pohle, Johann Hermann Schein and Thomas Selle, among others. 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. Many Christmas cantatas – as cantatas in general – were written in the Baroque era for church services, related to the prescribed readings of the liturgical year. Bach structured the report from the Gospels which connects the parts to a whole, as told by the Evangelist, in six topics. Ein Adam mag sich voller Schrecken, Aria. Challenge Classics: CC72230. Filed under: Bach Cantatas,General,Music — Patterico @ 9:34 am Tweet. 25 December 2020 The Birth of Jesus Cantata I Jauchzet, frohlocket! Ei nun, mein Gott, so fall ich dir. The result is often nothing short of magic. 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. Rudolf Mauersberger composed for the Dresdner Kreuzchor which he conducted, Eine kleine Weihnachtskantate (A little Christmas cantata). In 1796 Jakub Jan Ryba wrote Česká mše vánoční, which tells within the frame of a Mass a Christmas story in Czech, set in pastoral Bohemia. Chorale. Was dort Jesaias vorhergesehn, Chorale. 63, "Christen, ätzet diesen Tag," BWV 63 (BC A8), Recitative. 65, "Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen," BWV 65 (BC A27), Recitative. The scoring can be chamber music to be performed by single singers and instruments, choir a cappella, and works for soloists, choir and orchestra. Therefore, the cantata is for five parts and in Latin. All Christmas cantatas consist of several movements, most movements include solo and choral singing. deine Hand, dein Segen muß allein, Cantata No. Cantata No. o ungemeines Heute, Recitative. Wohlam! Behalte nur das Deine, Cantata No. Readings: Epistle: Titus 2: 11-14 / Isaiah 9: 2-7; Gospel: Luke 2: 1-14. English Translation in Parallel Format. Different from Christmas oratorios, which present the Christmas story, Christmas cantatas deal with aspects of it. In Bach's day there were three official Christmas festival days and this recording offers cantatas for each of those days. 41, "Jesu, nun sei gepreiset," BWV 41 (BC A22), Recitative. Amazon.in: Buy Bach:Christmas Cantatas online at low price in India on Amazon.in. Wie lieblich klingt es in den Ohren, Recitative. 61 tracks (187:44). 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). 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. [8][9], In the 21st century, new Christmas cantatas have been written among others by Toshio Hosokawa[10] and Graham Waterhouse.[11]. 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. 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. 2015 Preview SONG TIME Hodie Christus natus est (Motet à 8) By Giovanni Gabrieli. It was preceded by Advent, and followed by the period of the Sundays after Epiphany. 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). And at least one cantata here, the opening work, BWV 63, is one of Bach's very best. O selger Tag! The term is called Weihnachtskantate in German, Cantate de Noël in French. Christmas cantatas have been written on texts in several other languages, such as Czech, Italian, Romanian, and Spanish. 9 hrs]. 7, 9) Chorale Text: Biblical quotations in green font, chorales in purple. 26 December 2020 Shepherds and Angels Cantata II Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend. The text of the liturgical Gloria begins with the angels' song, as a link to the Christmas story. 121, "Christum wir sollen loben schon," BWV 121 (BC A13). Recitativo (Alto) "O selger Tag! Nun, Jesus gebe, daß mit dem neuen Jahr, Cantata No. These themes appear also in cantatas of later composers. Bach, Cantata 3, at Epiphany II. This disc, presenting three cantatas from Bach's early Leipzig period, is no exception. The importance of the feast inspired many composers to write cantatas for the occasion, some designed to be performed in church services, others for concert or secular celebration. Buy J S Bach: Christmas Cantatas BWV 63, 64, 121 & 133 by The Monteverdi Choir, Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists from Amazon's Classical Music Store. These are Read more marvelously festive works that feature some of Bach's most extroverted music. Trumpets feature prominently in many Baroque cantatas as the Royal instruments. Recitative. Typically for a Bach cantata, the opening chorus has the lower three voices singing dense counterpoint while the sopranos sing the titular chorale melody; less characteristically, Bach uses a similar … Text: Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander); Paul Gerhardt (Mvt. 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, … The Christmas story, telling of music of the angels and suggesting music of the shepherds and cradle song, invited musical treatment. Event: Cantata for Christmas Day. Cantata BWV 248/1 - Shout for joy, exult, rise up, glorify the day. The quality of the soloists is always matched by the quality of the chorus and the instrumental playing. 5); Martin Luther (Mvts. O Menschen, die ihr täglich sündigt, Cantata No. In 1995, Bruckner's Fest-Kantate Preiset den Herrn, WAB 16, has undergone an adaptation as Festkantate zur Weihnacht (festive Christmas cantata) for mixed choir with Herbert Vogg’s text "Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe". Text: Christian Friedrich Henrici (Picander); Paul Gerhardt (Mvt. [3] More of his Christmas cantatas were published in 2007 by Hofmeister. 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. Christmas Oratorio I. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Wie soll ich dich, Liebster der Seelen, Cantata No. 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. Countertenor Tim Mead takes centre stage in this glorious reading of the first movement of Bach's cantata 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust'. 1974-2013 BRILLIANT CLASSICS 95853 [11 CDs: ca. [5] He began his work with a setting of Psalm 130 and continued with carols. 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. 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. On the Cantatas of J.S. The table uses abbreviations: S = soprano, MS = mezzo-soprano, A = alto, T = tenor, Bar = baritone, B = bass, childr = children's choir, Str = strings, Instr = instruments, Tr = tromba (trumpet), Co = horn, Cn = cornett, Tb = trombone, Ti = timpani, Fl = recorder, Ft = flauto traverso, Ob = oboe, Oa = Oboe d'amore, Oc = Oboe da caccia, Vn = violin, Va = viola, Vc = cello, Fg = bassoon, Org = organ, Bc = basso continuo, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, BWV 40, Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, BWV 64, Missa in B minor, which he had composed for the court of Dresden in 1733, Kündlich groß ist das gottselige Geheimnis, Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget, "Stölzel: Christmas Oratorio – Epistle Cantatas", "Edition Denkmäler Mitteldeutscher Barockmusik", "Weihnachtskantate Komponist: Toshio Hosokawa", "Friedrich Wilhelm Zachow: Uns ist ein Kind geboren", Georg Philipp Telemann, Catalogue TWV 01: Cantates d'église, Temps de Noël, "Weihnachtskantate Komponist: Kurt Hessenberg", "Nils LINDBERG (b. 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. Destruction of the past and present. Recitative. It consists of six parts, each part is a complete work and composed for the church service of a specific feast day. :-) And their centerpiece was a BBC/Bach Choir co-commission, the world premiere of Libby Larsen’s I It Am, a jubilant cantata based on the writings of Julian of Norwich…this highly coloured and disarmingly unsophisticated work came from, and went straight to, the heart.” Christmas cantatas were also composed by Gerard von Brucken Fock (1900) and Charles H. Gabriel, among others. This box set, released in 2012, is a compilation of recordings pertaining to the Christmas season from the BachCantata Pilgrimage undertaken at the turn of the millennium by conductor John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir, and the authentic-instrument English Baroque Soloists. 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. Event: Cantata for Christmas Day. Recitative and Chorale. Bach; Harnoncourt, Leonhardt – Christmas Cantatas (Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63: 1. Der Glanz der höchsten Herrlichkeit, Cantata No. Readings: Epistle: Titus 2: 11-14 / Isaiah 9: 2-7; Gospel: Luke 2: 1-14. The cantata form originated in Italy, alongside the oratorio. Lob, Ehr und Dank sei dir gesagt, Cantata No. I have been going through all of Bach’s Cantatas, and I am enjoying them IMMENSELY! Des Todes Furcht und Schmerz, Cantata No. 40, "Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes," BWV 40 (BCA 12), Chorus. Bach: Christmas Cantatas. During the Age of Enlightenment, church music was less prominent. 190, "Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied," BWV 190 (BC A21). Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for Bach: Christmas Cantatas - Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir on AllMusic - 2004 Christmas Oratorio I. In the 20th century, Benjamin Britten set in 1942 a sequence of carols as A Ceremony of Carols. The visual wizards at Fly On The Wall have been capturing outstanding musical performances, and this one is no exception. Check out Bach: Advent And Christmas Cantatas by Karl Richter on Amazon Music. (An even more dramatic juxtaposition occurs in the opening movement of BWV 61, a sacred cantata from the outset, where Bach sets the traditional chorale Read more melody within a fashionable French overture.)" 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. 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. “America’s venerable Bach Choir of Bethlehem sang Bach and Mendelssohn with good-natured and ruddy-cheeked elation. Dazu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes, Cantata No. 122, "Das neugeborne Kindelein," BWV 122 (BC A19), Aria. 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'. 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