Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner

Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner

Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner
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Performer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 1990-10-25
Music Label: Archiv Produktion
Soundtracks:
Music CD 1
  1. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Coro
  2. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  3. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Recitativo
  4. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Aria
  5. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Choral
  6. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  7. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Choral - Recitativo
  8. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Aria
  9. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part One - For The 1st Day Of Christmas: Choral
  10. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Sinfonia
  11. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  12. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Choral
  13. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista - Angelus
  14. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Recitativo
  15. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Aria
  16. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  17. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Choral
  18. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Recitativo
  19. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Aria
  20. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  21. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Coro
  22. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Recitativo
  23. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Two - For The 2nd Day Of Christmas: Choral
  24. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Coro
  25. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  26. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Coro
  27. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Recitativo
  28. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Choral
  29. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Duetto
  30. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  31. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Aria
  32. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Recitativo
  33. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Choral
  34. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Evangelista
  35. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Choral
  36. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Three - For The 3rd Day Of Christmas: Coro de capo
Music CD 2
  1. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Coro
  2. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Evangelista: Und da acht Tage um waren
  3. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Recitative (Basso): Immanuel, o susses Wort; Arioso (Soprani, Basso): Jeu, du mein liebstes Leben
  4. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Aria (Soprano, Echo Soprano): Flosst, mein Heiland, flosst dein Namen
  5. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Recitative - Choral
  6. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Aria
  7. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Four - For The Feast Of The Circumcision: Choral
  8. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Coro
  9. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Evangelista
  10. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Coro - Recitativo
  11. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Choral
  12. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Aria
  13. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Evangelista
  14. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Recitativo
  15. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Evangelista
  16. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Terzetto
  17. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Recitativo
  18. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Five - For The 1st Sunday In The New Year: Choral
  19. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Coro
  20. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Evangelista - Herodes
  21. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Recitativo
  22. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Aria
  23. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Evangelista
  24. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Choral
  25. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Evangelista
  26. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Recitativo
  27. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Aria
  28. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Recitativo - Schrecken
  29. Christmas Oratorio BWV 248: Part Six - For The Feast Of Epiphany: Choral

Music reviews of Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner

Music Review: Gardiner vs Richter, my $0.02
Rating: 4 Stars

This Gardiner is a fine human recording but the Richter with Wunderlich Janowitz Ludwig Crass is divine.

Serious voice students will study the techniques of all four of Richter's soloists forever.

One other reviewer said their voices were right for opera theatres not Bach's churches. What nonsense. Of the four only Crass sang big heavy roles. The others are soft, lyric singers. All four were known for precise musicianship and "instrumental" tone. (Wunderlich sounded like a small baroque brass instrument. Janowitz like the sound you get when you dip your finger in wine and gently stroke the rim of the wineglass--that soft, wierdly penetrating crystalline resonance.) FW, GJ, and CL were all famous lieder singers and FW left a gorgeous record of renaissance sacred songs with fewer than five accompanying instruments. All three were totally at home in small settings. FC does a nice job of restraining his size, especially considering the part lies mostly at the top of his range.

The whole argument about what kind of singers Bach was writing for is wrong-headed because unlike say Mozart or Wagner, Bach wasn't thinking much about how the performers felt. He wrote as if for keyboard. What he requires IMHO is more of the astonishing consistancy of vocal color and volume which Richter's soloists maintain over long phrases, and less of the undersing-up-to-just-before-the-climax-and-then-crecendo-rapidly strategy one hears so often today. Overtargetting. It's cheating.

Description of Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner

This isn't an oratorio in the Handelian sense, but a series of cantatas for various days from Christmas to Epiphany. Bach's music is loaded with treats: an echo aria for soprano and oboe; a "pastoral" sinfonia; bravura arias for tenor with flute and bass with trumpet; a giddy soprano-bass duet; a transporting lullaby for alto. Then there are the choruses, featuring the Monteverdi Choir at their best: exuberant full-orchestra choruses in parts one and three; a lilting triple-time chorus with horns in part four; the joyful skittering chorus in part five; and the triumphant opening and closing of part six (with spectacular trumpet solos). John Eliot Gardiner's direction is vigorous; the soloists, the best group you'll find on CD, include a terrific young Anne Sofie von Otter. --Matthew Westphal

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