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Mozart: Great Mass in C Minor (John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists)
2024-04-11 04:00:00
Bach: Magnificat; Jauchzet Gott (John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists)
2024-03-28 21:00:00
John Eliot Gardiner with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists
2023-12-25 15:49:21
Christmas 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 25, 2023. Christmas. We wish our listeners a Merry Christmas! On this wonderful day, we won’t bother you with disquisitions and analyses but will present some Christmas music for your pleasure – and this joyful piece is perfect for the occasion. It’s the first section of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a cantata known for the initial words of the first chorus as Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult). It was first performed on this day in 1734, in the morning, at St. Nicholas; and then in the afternoon, at St. Thomas in Leipzig: Bach, as Thomaskantor, was the music director of both churches and led both performances. What we will hear is a recording made in January of 1987 by John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir and several prominent soloists, Anne-Sophie von Otter among them. Enjoy and see […]
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