Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Bwv 248

There are numerous good recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio to choose from, but this new one from Stuttgart has special things going for it. Not least of them is the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben...They... — BBC Music Magazine, Christmas 2020, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 25th Sep 2020
Catalogue No: MDG9022183
Label: MDG

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Bach, J S: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248

Elizabeth Wimmer (soprano), Elvira Bill (alto), Andreas Post (tenor), Dominic Grosse (bass), Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben, Handel's Company, Rainer Johannes Homburg

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There is hardly a more perfect musical formula for the beginning of the Christmas season than the festively recited opening motif of Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio. But in his six cantatas, assigned to the individual holidays, the great Thomaskantor goes far beyond pure jubilation. Rainer Johannes Homburg and his Stuttgart Hymnus-Chorknaben have now given a new version of the "musical message" about the birth of Christ, supported by competent soloists and Handel's Company, whose baroque opulence is particularly well expressed in the three-dimensional sound of this Super Audio CD. Timpani and trumpets mark the royal prelude. The multi-award-winning trumpet ensemble Wolfgang Bauer provides a magnificent sound before the extremely agile evangelist Andreas Post takes us into the events of the Holy Night. Historically informed and accompanied by instruments from the time of its origin, the masterly boys' choir of the Stuttgart Hymnus Choir Boys' Choir,develops a Christmas-intimate mood that one cannot escape.

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Christmas 2020

There are numerous good recordings of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio to choose from, but this new one from Stuttgart has special things going for it. Not least of them is the Stuttgarter Hymnus-Chorknaben...They make a sound Bach would undoubtedly have approved of – fresh, enthusiastic and with a natural affinity for the Lutheran idiom...Homburg shapes an interpretation which glows joyfully from within, and lifts the heart in the sincerity of its emotions. A perfect way to celebrate the Christmas season in music.

Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio Bwv 248

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