Yet they are there in the music. Bach’s cantata for the second day of Christmas, Darzu ist erschienen der Sohn Gottes (For this God’s Son has appeared), BWV 40, first performed in Leipzig on ...

For the Christmas Oratorio, Bach cleverly used music he had already composed, adapting it for a new purpose. He took the majority of the choruses and arias from earlier secular works and gave them new ...

Rob Bruder Media Relations Baritone Christopheren Nomura was one of the soloists in Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the 77th annual Baldwin-Wallace College Bach Festival over the weekend in Berea.

Gevert's Crescendo Chorus, a part of Crescendo Music, is performing Bach's "Christmas Oratorio," as well as baroque holiday cantatas and modern-day choral compositions, in “Bach-Circle: Christmas ...

Sometimes music is most moving when it evokes the past. ... Bach Choir Christmas Concerts, 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 8, First Presbyterian Church of Allentown, 3231 Tilghman St., ...

Handel might have a chokehold on holiday-season oratorios with “Messiah.” But Bach’s lesser-known “Christmas Oratorio” has some festive fireworks and exultant beauty of its own. &ldquo ...

♪ music ♪ >>i heard the bells on christmas day, their old familiar carols play; and wild and sweet the words repeat, of peace on earth goodwill to men. I THOUGHT HOW, AS THE DAY HAD COME, THE ...

The Seattle Baroque Orchestra is joining its musical brethren with a brace of concerts this weekend at Nordstrom Recital Hall that celebrates the Christmas season. Music of J.S. Bach is the focus ...

The crisp division we sometimes draw between the secular and the sacred, or musical church and state, would have seemed fuzzy at best to someone such as Bach. In his "Christmas Oratorio," which ...