This vivid work, which had its premiere on Good Friday 1724, brings an experimental spirit to its arresting musical ...

Antoine Plante have announced Mercury Chamber Orchestra's 25th Anniversary Season: a bold  celebration of diverse masterworks ...

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio bears the unmistakable hallmark of the composer’s genius. The enduring story of Jesus’ birth unfolds in a sequence of energetic choruses, richly harmonized chorales ...

This edition may not be numerically significant, but Shemer and the JBO have gone for one of Bach’s best-known works, the Christmas Oratorio, as the festival linchpin. Today, it is widely ...

Conducted by Dr. Eugene Greco, and accompanied by a string ensemble with Douglas Brockington on the keyboard, the choir performed J.S. Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” and the Christmas portion ...

Johann Sebastian Bach wrote over 1,000 pieces of music, but modern symphony audiences rarely get to hear his work. The San ...

This war on the "opium of the people" included Christmas too, and Bach's Christmas Oratorio didn't escape the censure of the Soviet authorities. As conductor Vladimir Jurowski recounts ...

the six-part "Christmas Oratorio", must be finished on time. It is awaited with suspicion by the city council and the gentlemen of the consistory, who have long found Bach's waywardness a thorn in ...

Other highlights of past performances include works by Bach (Easter Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion), Brahms (Requiem), Handel (Saul), Haydn (Creation), Mendelssohn (St. Paul), Mozart ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt directs the Concentus Musicus Wien and Toelzer Knabenchor in Bach's masterwork. Featured soloists are Peter Schreier and Robert Holl. The performance was filmed in 1982 at the ...