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Laura Atkinson on Bach Christmas Oratorio
Program: Biscuit Chats
Aired: Sunday, December 24, 2023
Hosted by Rachel Stewart
Bach wrote his Christmas Oratorio for the Christmas season of 1734. It consists of six cantatas, each intended for performance on a feast day during the Christmas season. In June 2023, Bach Akademie Charlotte's Bach festival centered around the Christmas Oratorio. Laura Atkinson, a singer and the Education Director of Bach Akademie Charlotte, talks about the origins of the musical series and its foundation for Bach's other works.
Playlist
7 am | |
| Giuseppe Torelli · Christmas Concerto, Op. 8, No. 6 Academy of Ancient Music Decca 410179 "Christmas Concertos" | |
| Michel Corrette · Christmas Symphony No. 5 in a Arion Baroque Orchestra Early-Music.com 7768 "Corrette: Symphonies des Noels" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Suite of Chorales for Advent and Christmas The Choir of King's College, Cambridge Andrew Davis, organ EMI Classics 86052 "Bach: Cantata BWV 147; Chorales & Preludes" | |
| Johann Heinrich Schmelzer · Sonata Natalis (Christmas Sonata) Virtuosi Saxoniae Ludwig Guttler, trumpet Berlin Classics 1059 "Christmas Concertos" | |
| Georg Philipp Telemann · "Hosanna! This will be our Redemption" Christmas Cantata Capella Savaria Maria Zadori, soprano; Judit Nemeth, contralto; Gabor Kallay, tenor; Klaus Mertens, baritone Harmonia Mundi 390305 3 "Telemann: Cantates de Noel" | |
8 am | |
| Jacob Handl de Gallus · "Resonet in Laudibus" (Shouts of Joy) Bel Canto Company (Greensboro, NC) Sonari 0024 "Christmas with the Bel Canto Company" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Canonic Variations on "Vom Himmel hoch" BWV 769 Simon Preston, organ of the Kreuzberg Church, Bonn, Germany Deutsche Grammophon 427668 "Bach: Toccata & Fuge D-Moll BWV 565 U.A." | |
| Marc-Antoine Charpentier · Noel pour les instruments (Instrumental Carols) Les Violons du Roy Sono Luminus 90180 "Simphonies des Noels" | |
| Tomas Luis de Victoria · "Ave Maria" Tallis Scholars Gimell 010 "Christmas Carols and Motets" | |
| Philipp Heinrich Erlebach · "Fuerchtet euch nicht" (Do not fear) (Christmas Cantata) Saxon Vocal Ensemble; Batzdorf Court Ensemble CPO 777332 "Baroque Christmas Cantatas from Central Germany" | |
| Traditional French · "Veni, veni Emmanuel" Seraphic Fire Seraphic Fire 75752 "Silent Night - Seraphic Fire" | |
| Philipp Böddecker · "Jesus is Born" London Baroque Emma Kirkby, soprano BIS 1135 "Christmas Music" | |
| Johann Eccard · "Mary piously visited the temple" Theatre of Voices Harmonia Mundi 807556 "The Christmas Story" | |
9 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Part I) (Cantata for Christmas Day) Bach Akademie Charlotte (rec. Sat. June 10, 2023, Myers Park Pre "Bach: Christmas Oratorio" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Part II) (Annunciation of the Shepherds) Bach Akademie Charlotte (rec. Sat. June 10, 2023, Myers Park Pre "Bach: Christmas Oratorio" | |