Episode 1357. In the weeks leading up to Christmas, we can warm ourselves with the Christmas Oratorio, Magnificat and Christmas cantatas from Johann Sebastian Bach. Today in Bach ad Infinitum: the Magnificat BWV 243a (the early version), from a new CD release from the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor conducted by Justin Doyle.
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
1. Magnificat in E flat major, BWV 243a (Weihnachts-Magnificat), written for Christmas vespers 25 December 1723
– I Magnificat anima mea
– II Et exsultavit spiritus meus
– III Vom Himmel hoch
– IV Quia respexit
– V Omnes generationes
– VI Quia fecit mihi magna
– VII Freut euch und jubiliert
– VIII Et misericordia
– IX Fecit potentiam
– X Gloria in excelsis Deo
– XI Deposuit potentes
– XII Esurientes implevit bonis
– XIII Virga Jesse
– XIV Suscepit Israel
– XV Sicut locutus est
– XVI Gloria Patri
Núria Rial (soprano), Marie-Sophie Pollak (soprano), Alex Potter (altus), Kieran Carrel (tenor), Roderick Williams (bass), Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin & RIAS Kammerchor conducted by Justin Doyle.
(CD: J.S. Bach – Weihnachts-Magnificat – G.F. Handel – Utrecht Te Deum, Harmonia Mundi, 2024)
More about the Magnificat BWV 243a here
2. from English Suite no.2 in A minor, BWV 807
– Bourrée 1 & 2
Ivo Pogorelich, piano
3. Cantata “Unser Mund sei voll Lachens” BWV 110, written for Christmas Day 25 December 1725
– Unser Mund sei voll Lachens
– Aria. Ihr Gedanken und ihr Sinnen
– Recitative. Dir, Herr, ist niemand gleich
– Aria. Ach Herr, was ist ein Menschenkind
– Duet. Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
– Aria. Wacht auf, ihr Adern und ihr Glieder
– Chorale. Alleluja! Gelobt sei Gott
Gerlinde Sämann (soprano), Alex Potter (altus), Bernhard Berchtold (tenor), Stephan MacLeod (bass). Choir and orchestra of the J.S. Bach-Stiftung conducted by Rudolf Lutz
More about cantata BWV 110 here
