Christmas oratorio = Weihnachtsoratorium : BWV 248 / music by Johann Sebastian Bach ; a coproduction of BBC Wales, EuroArts Leipzig.

"Bach's Christmas Oratorio is among his most joyous music. Although not actually an oratorio - it is really a series of six cantatas - it was written for the 1734-1735 Christmas celebration in Leipzig. Curiously, to illustrate this, the most sacred of Christian celebrations, Bach chose to "parody" m...

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Uniform Title:Weihnachts-Oratorium
Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
Main Author: Bach, Johann Sebastian, 1685-1750
Corporate Authors: English Baroque Soloists (Performer)
Monteverdi Choir (Performer)
BBC Cymru Wales
EuroArts Music International GmbH
Other Authors: Smaczny, Paul (Producer)
Bueno, Isabel Iturriagagoitia (Producer)
Morris, Fiona (Producer)
Coles, Bob (Director)
Gardiner, John Eliot (Conductor)
McFadden, Claron (Performer)
Fink, Bernarda (Performer)
Genz, Christoph (Performer)
Henschel, Dietrich, 1967- (Performer)
Language:German
English
French
Japanese
Language of the Original:
German
Language and/or Writing System:
Sung in German; subtitles in English, German, French, and Japanese.
Published: Leipzig : Arthaus Musik, [2000]
Series:Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials.
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Physical Description:2 videodiscs (198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Weihnachtsoratorium. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD

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