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...
Uniform Title: | Weihnachts-Oratorium
Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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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]
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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 |