A weekday programme on the oeuvre of Johann Sebastian Bach by compiler Govert Jan Bach and host Joop van Zijl.
Episode 226: Christmas music.
Unfortunately episode 221 can be heard here. You can listen to episode 226 on Monday December 22 between 13:00 and 14:00 hrs.
Slowly the Weihnachtsoratorium is becoming the happy counterpart of the Mattäus Passion. But Bach also wrote Christmas cantatas, e.g. cantata BWV 110: "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens".
1. From Weihnachtsoratorium cantata I: Opening chorus "Jauchzet Frohlocket"
RIAS Kammerchor and Akademie für alte Musik under the direction of René Jacobs
(HMX 2951630.31)
2. 4th orchestral suite in D BWV 1069
Bach Collegium Japan under the direction of Masaaki Suzuki
(BIS-SACD 1431)
3. Cantata 110 "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens"
Gerlinde Saemann, soprano. Alex Potter, alto. Bernhard Berchtold, tenor. Stephen MacLeod, bass. Choir and orchestra from Bach Stiftung St. Gallen under the direction of Rudolf Lutz
(Bachkantaten Nr. 9)
Presentation: Joop van Zijl
