A weekday program on the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach by composer Govert Jan Bach and host Joop van Zijl.
Episode 226: Christmas music.
Slowly, the Weinachts Oratorium is starting to become the cheerful counterpart of the Matthäus Passion. But Bach also wrote Christmas Cantatas, like cantata BWV 110: "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens".
1. From Weinachtsoratorium cantata I: Starting chorus "Jauchzet Frohlocket" RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für alte Musik led by René Jacobs
(HMX 2951630.31)
2. 4th orchestral suite in D BWV 1069
Bach Collegium Japan led by Masaaki Suzuki
(BIS-SACD 1431)
3. Cantata 110 "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens"Gerlinde Saemann, soprano. Alex Potter, alto. Bernhard Berchtold, tenor. Stephen MacLeod, bass. Choir and orchestra of Bach Stift und St.Gallen led by Rudolf Lutz
(Bach Cantata No.9)
Photo: Bach Stiftung St. Gallen
Presented by: Joop van Zijl
