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Johann Sebastian Bach - Weihnachts Oratorium, BWV 248 {Philips Classics} (1989)

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Johann Sebastian Bach - Weihnachts Oratorium, BWV 248 {Philips Classics} (1989)

Johann Sebastian Bach - Weihnachts Oratorium, BWV 248 (Eugen Jochum) {Philips Classics} (1989)
EAC+LOG+CUE | FLAC (image) | 3 CD | size: 265 + 221 + 227 MB | scans @ 600dpi | TT 2:44:59 | RS/FP/UL
Classical | Philips Classics | Release 1989 | Catalog #: 416 402-2

The structure of the story is defined to a large extent by the particular requirements of the church calendar for Christmas 1734/35. Bach abandoned his usual practice when writing church cantatas of basing the content upon the Gospel reading for that day in order to achieve a coherent narrative structure. Were he to have followed the calendar, the story would have unfolded as follows:
1. Birth and Annunciation to the Shepherds
2. The Adoration of the Shepherds
3. Prologue to the Gospel of John
4. Circumcision and Naming of Jesus
5. The Flight into Egypt
6. The Coming and Adoration of the Magi

This would have resulted in the Holy Family fleeing before the Magi had arrived, which was unsuitable for an oratorio evidently planned as a coherent whole. Bach removed the content for the Third Day of Christmas (December 27), John's Gospel, and split the story of the two groups of visitors—Shepherds and Magi—into two. This resulted in a more understandable exposition of the Christmas story:
1. The Birth
2. The Annunciation to the Shepherds
3. The Adoration of the Shepherds
4. The Circumcision and Naming of Jesus
5. The Journey of the Magi
6. The Adoration of the Magi

The Flight into Egypt takes place after the end of the sixth part.

That Bach saw the six parts as comprising a greater, unified whole is evident both from the surviving printed text and from the structure of the music itself. The edition has not only a title—Weihnachtsoratorium—connecting together the six sections, but these sections are also numbered consecutively. As John Butt has mentioned,[1] this points, as in the Mass in B minor, to a unity beyond the performance constraints of the church year.

Tracklist:

Part I

Conrad von Soest: Birth of Christ (1404)
Part I: For the First Day of Christmas

1 Chorus D major 3/8 Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage
2 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit Continuo
3 Recitative (alto) Nun wird mein liebster Bräutigam
4 Aria (alto) A min 3/8 Bereite dich, Zion, mit zärtlichen Trieben
5 Chorale A minor Common Wie soll ich dich empfangen
6 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und sie gebar ihren ersten Sohn Continuo
7 Chorale (sopranos) D major 3/4 Er ist auf Erden kommen arm
Recitative (bass) Wer will die Liebe recht erhöhn
8 Aria (bass) D major 2/4 Großer Herr und starker König
9 Chorale D major Common Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein!

Part II

Georges de La Tour: Adoration of the shepherds (1644)
Part II: For the Second Day of Christmas

10 Sinfonia G major 12/8
11 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend Continuo
12 Chorale G major Common Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht
13 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor; Angel, soprano) Und der Engel sprach zu ihnen Fürchtet euch nicht
14 Recitative (bass) Was Gott dem Abraham verheißen
15 Aria (tenor) E minor 3/8 Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet
16 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor)[II 1] Und das habt zum Zeichen
17 Chorale C major Common Schaut hin! dort liegt im finstern Stall
18 Recitative (bass) So geht denn hin!
19 Aria (alto) G maj/E min 2/4 Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh'
20 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und alsobald war da bei dem Engel
21 Chorus G major Split Common (2/2) Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
22 Recitative (bass) So recht, ihr Engel, jauchzt und singet
23 Chorale G major 12/8 Wir singen dir in deinem Heer

Part III

Giotto di Bondone: Angels at the nativity (c. 1300)
Part III: For the Third Day of Christmas

24 Chorus D major 3/8 Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
25 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und da die Engel von ihnen gen Himmel fuhren
26 Chorus A major 3/4 Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem
27 Recitative (bass) Er hat sein Volk getröst't
28 Chorale D major Common Dies hat er alles uns getan
29 Duet (soprano, bass) A major 3/8 Herr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen
30 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und sie kamen eilend
31 Aria (alto) D maj/B min 2/4 Schließe, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder
32 Recitative (alto) Ja, ja! mein Herz soll es bewahren
33 Chorale G major Common Ich will dich mit Fleiß bewahren
34 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und die Hirten kehren wieder um Continuo
35 Chorale F minor Common Seid froh, dieweil
24 Chorus da capo D major 3/8 Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen

Part IV

Rembrandt: Circumcision of Christ (1661)
Part IV: For New Year's Day (Feast of the Circumcision)

36 Chorus F major 3/8 Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben
37 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und da acht Tage um waren
38 Recitative (bass) Immanuel, o süßes Wort
Arioso (sopr./bass) Jesu, du mein liebstes Leben
39 Aria (soprano & 'Echo' soprano) C major 6/8 Flößt, mein Heiland, flößt dein Namen
40 Recitative (bass) Wohlan! dein Name soll allein
Arioso (soprano) Jesu, meine Freud' und Wonne
41 Aria (tenor) D minor Common Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben
42 Chorale F major 3/4 Jesus richte mein Beginnen

Part V

Magi before Herod; France, early 15th century
Part V: For the First Sunday in the New Year[V 1]

43 Chorus A maj/F min 3/4 Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
44 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Da Jesus geboren war zu Bethlehem
45 Chorus Wo ist der neugeborne König der Juden
Recitative (alto) Sucht ihn in meiner Brust
Chorus D major Wir haben seinen Stern gesehen
46 Chorale A major Common Dein Glanz all' Finsternis verzehrt
47 Aria (bass) F minor 2/4 Erleucht' auch meine finstre Sinnen
48 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Da das der König Herodes hörte
49 Recitative (alto) Warum wollt ihr erschrecken
50 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und ließ versammeln alle Hohenpriester
51 Trio (sopr., alto, ten.) D major 2/4 Ach! wann wird die Zeit erscheinen?
52 Recitative (alto) Mein Liebster herrschet schon
53 Chorale A major Common Zwar ist solche Herzensstube

Part VI

Rogier van der Weyden: Adoration of the Magi (c. 1430–60)

Rembrandt: Flight into Egypt (1627)
Part VI: For the Feast of Epiphany

54 Chorus D major 3/8 Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
55 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor; Herod, bass) Ziehet hin und forschet fleißig
56 Recitative (soprano) Du Falscher, suchet nur den Herrn zu fällen
57 Aria (soprano) A maj/F min/A maj 3/4 Nur ein Wink von seinen Händen
58 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Als sie nun den König gehöret hatten
59 Chorale G major Common Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
60 Recitative (Evangelist, tenor) Und Gott befahl ihnen im Traum'
61 Recitative (tenor) So geht! Genug, mein Schatz geht nicht von hier
62 Aria (tenor) B minor 2/4 Nun mögt ihr stolzen Feinde schrecken
63 Recitative (soprano, alto, tenor, bass) Was will der Höllen Schrecken nun
64 Chorale D major Common Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen

Johann Sebastian Bach - Weihnachts Oratorium, BWV 248 {Philips Classics} (1989)


Personnel:
Elly Ameling - Sopran
Brigitte Fassbaender - Alt
Horst R. Laubenthal - Tenor & Evangelist
Hermann Prey - Bass
Chor und Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Josef Schmidhuber
Tölzer Knabenchor - Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden
Dirigent - Eugen Jochum

Info:
Recorded: München, West-Germany Februari 1973

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