Examples: for his 1973 recording, The different types of oboes referred to above are mostly called for at different points in each section. The work belongs to a group of three oratorios written in 1734 and 1735 for major feasts, the other two works being the Ascension Oratorio (BWV 11) and the Easter Oratorio (BWV 249). The piece is often presented as a whole or split into two equal parts. All three of these oratorios to some degree parody earlier compositions. 39 in part IV. Part I is written for Christmas Day (December 25). 64, closing chorale of Part VI). Like for his other oratorios, and his Passion settings, Bach employed a narrative based on the Gospel in his Christmas Oratorio. Part V is written for the Sunday after New Year's Day. However, numbers 10, 12, 14, 17, 18, 19 and 21 in Part II call for 2 oboe d'amore and 2 oboe da caccia. The Gospel text included by Bach in his six Christmas Oratorio cantatas consists of: The Gospel readings for the Third Day of Christmas (Prologue of the Gospel of John), and for the Sunday after New Year (the Flight to Egypt) are not directly used in the Christmas Oratorio. J.S. The edition has not only a title—Weihnachts-Oratorium—connecting together the six sections, but these sections are also numbered consecutively. If a Sunday fell between 27 December and 1 January, also on this first Sunday after Christmas a church service with music was held, and similar for a Sunday between 1 and 6 January (second Sunday after Christmas, or: first Sunday after New Year). Before Bach composed his Christmas Oratorio for the 1734–35 Christmas season in Leipzig, he had already composed Christmas cantatas and other church music for all seven occasions of the Christmas season: Four of these third cycle cantatas for the Christmas season, BWV 110, 57, 151 and 16, were on a text from Georg Christian Lehms's Gottgefälliges Kirchen-Opffer cantata libretto cycle, which had been published in 1711. It included at least three feast days that called for festive music during religious services: apart from Christmas (Nativity of Christ) and Epiphany (Visit of the Magi) the period also included New Year's Day (1 January), in Bach's time still often referred to as the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ. It consists of six cantatas that between them tell the story of the Nativity, and the events of the following week or so. The instruments used in part II are 2 horns, 2 oboes, 2 violins, viola, and the basso continuo. [36][37][38] In addition to these sources, the sixth cantata is based on a largely lost church cantata, BWV 248a, of which at least the opening chorus is based on the lost secular cantata BWV 1160. The instruments used in part III are the same as part I. It is a reference to the pastoral music tradition of shepherds playing. The same melody reappears in the last movement of the oratorio (No. Each section combines choruses (a pastoral Sinfonia opens Part II instead of a chorus), chorales and from the soloists recitatives, ariosos and arias. Each part is performed for a certain day in the Christmas season. And never mair from thee depart. Mach dir ein rein sanft Bettelein, [46], Martin Luther's 1539 "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her" melody appears in three chorales: twice on a text by Paul Gerhardt in Part II of the oratorio, and the first time, in the closing chorale of Part I, with the 13th stanza of Luther's hymn as text. In his German-language church music, Bach uses Lutheran chorale melodies. J.S. J.S. 33 of the oratorio appears to be based on, This page was last edited on 1 December 2020, at 22:47. Parts Part I. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 / Part Four - For New Year's Day - No. Tönet, ihr Pauken! [PDF] + Video - Choir and Orchestra - Baroque * License : Public Domain - 6 Parts/Days, 64 pieces : I. Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage (Cantata for Christmas Day) 1. Some of the music is based from Bach's other works. In some performances sung by the Angel (soprano). 5); Martin Luther (Mvts. Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein, » Im Forum nach Christmas Oratorio [J S Bach and gen ] fragen: Recent Searches. Bach took the majority of the choruses and arias from works which had been written some time earlier. Bach's Christmas Oratorio was compiled for the Christmas church festival at Leipzig for the season of 1734-5. 7 of part I ("Er ist auf Erden kommen arm") and even more ingeniously in the recitatives nos. The date is confirmed in Bach's autograph manuscript. Some of the music is based from Bach's other works. That Bach saw the six parts as comprising a greater, unified whole is evident both from the surviving printed text and from the structure of the music itself. The Christmas Oratorio (German: Weihnachts-Oratorium) is a musical composition written by Johann Sebastian Bach. Part VI is written for the holiday of Epiphany. Sinfonia 2 (11). Bach, JS : Weihnachtsoratorium [Christmas Oratorio] BWV248 : Part 2 Sinfonia is a popular song by Günther Jena | Create your own TikTok videos with the Bach, JS : Weihnachtsoratorium [Christmas Oratorio] BWV248 : Part 2 Sinfonia song and explore 0 videos made by new and popular creators. Following the huge success of 2015's Magnificat & Christmas Cantata, Dunedin Consort releases its eagerly awaited follow up, Bach's Christmas Oratorio. The six services of the Christmas season 1734–35 where the oratorio's cantatas were to be performed had these Gospel readings: As usual in most of his oratorios, and all of his Passions, the Evangelist character enunciated the Gospel text in sung recitatives, except the passages in direct speech, which were sung by soloists or choral groups representing the characters who spoke these texts according to the Gospel narrative. Part IV is written in F major (the relative key to D minor) and marks the furthest musical point away from the oratorio's opening key, scored for horns. On this occasion, however, the parody technique proved to be unsuccessful and Bach composed the aria afresh. 38 Rezitativ: "Immanuel, o süßes Wort" Arioso (Chor-Sopran, Baß): "Jesu, du mein liebstes Leben"-"Komm ich will dich mit Lust umfassen" von Nancy Argenta & Olaf Bär & English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner 2:15 1,06 € ", Die Melodien der deutschen evangelischen Kirchenlieder, International Music Score Library Project, Masses, magnificat, passions and oratorios, List of compositions by Johann Sebastian Bach, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Christmas_Oratorio&oldid=991808485, Passions and oratorios by Johann Sebastian Bach, Articles with German-language sources (de), Articles to be expanded from December 2019, Articles with International Music Score Library Project links, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz work identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WorldCat-VIAF identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Schlafe, mein Liebster, und pflege der Ruh, Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage, Blühet, ihr Linden in Sachsen, wie Zedern, Pfui dich, wie fein zerbrichst du den Tempel, Du Falscher, suche nur den Herrn zu fällen, So geht! J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 / Part One - For The First Day Of Christmas - No. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 / Part Four - For New Year's Day - No.38 Rezitativ (Baß): "Immanuel, o süßes Wort" Arioso (Chor-Sopran, Baß): "Jesu, du mein liebstes Leben"-"Komm ich will dich mit Lust umfassen" von Nancy Argenta & Olaf Bär & English Baroque Soloists & John Eliot Gardiner The Christmas Oratorio is in six parts, each part being intended for performance on one of the major feast days of the Christmas period. Christmas Oratorio II 1 (10). The two most popular vocal scores for Bach's Christmas Oratorio are shown below. The Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach intended for performance in church during the Christmas season. Similar Terms. Find release reviews and credits for Bach: Christmas Oratorio - John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir on AllMusic - The Gospel narrative of this oratorio followed, to a certain extent, the respective Gospel readings of the church services where the six cantatas of the Christmas Oratorio were to be performed for the first time. And I sall rock thee in my hert, [43][44][45] The first chorale tune appears in the 5th movement of Part I: it is the tune known as Herzlich tut mich verlangen, that is, the same hymn tune which Bach used in his St Matthew Passion for setting several stanzas of Paul Gerhardt's "O Haupt voll Blut und Wunden" ("O Sacred Head, Now Wounded"). This resulted in a more understandable exposition of the Christmas story: The Flight into Egypt takes place after the end of the sixth part. 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