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

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"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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Bibliographic Details
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.
Subjects:
Oratorios.
Cantatas, Sacred.
Christmas music.
Filmed performances.
Music videos.
Documentary films.
Genre:
Filmed performances.
Music videos.
Documentary films.
Physical Description:2 videodiscs (198 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Variant Title:
Weihnachtsoratorium. [Parallel title]
Format: Video DVD
Description
Summary:
"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" many movements from secular cantatas ... . This recording uses about a dozen musicians and a choir of about twenty, giving the music a very intimate feeling - this is light years away from the heavier performances of this work where a large choir drowns out the musicians"--Musicweb.
Note:Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Program notes in English, German and French (26 pages : ill. ; 18 cm.) inserted in container.
Special features include: documentary films: Jauchzet Frohlocket! : the start of John Eliot Gardiner's Bach cantata pilgrimage; Bach revisited : John Eliot Gardiner in Saxony and Thuringia / TV director, Bob Coles ; producer, Claus Wischmann ; director Manfred Waffender.
Videorecording.
Call Number:CN7 D0058266 VideoDVD
Credits:Producers, Paul Smaczny, Isabel Iturriagagoitia, Fiona Morris ; directed by Bob Coles.
System Details:DVD; soundtracks in PCM stereo., Dolby Digital 5.1, DTS 5.1; aspect ratio 16:9; region code 0; dual layer format.
Participant or Performer:
Claron McFadden, soprano ; Bernarda Fink, alto ; Christoph Genz, tenor ; Dietrich Henschel, bass ; English Baroque Soloists ; Monteverdi Choir ; John Elliot Gardiner, conductor.
Event Details:
Recorded at the Herderkirche, Weimar, December, 23 and 27 1999.