In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach ...

This weekend, I Cantori di Carmel’s presentation of J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, led by the choir’s music director Daniel Henriks, promises to be a bright and festive highlight of the December ...

When the Washington Bach Consort performed its namesake’s “Christmas Oratorio” on Sunday, all you needed to hear was a single aria to understand why the entire show, at National Presbyterian Church, ...

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Along with the singers of Polyphony, their performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at the Barbican flung an exultant riposte back at the self-contradictory bureaucrats of Arts Council England. Last ...

Grant Gershon opened a festive Los Angeles Master Chorale holiday program Sunday in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion with a down payment. He led the first part of Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio,” delivering ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — Take note, Baroque music lovers. Apollo’s Fire is about to present something quite rare indeed. If this were Europe, there’d be little to report. This being the United States, ...

You can’t go wrong with Bach. Any time. Any place. Performed in just about any cockamamie way. Bach befits Christmas better than any other composer, although he isn’t usually the first to be called ...

Christmas is coming and Taylor Festival Choir and Orchestra is tuning up. They are ready to get the holiday off to a rousing start with Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio.” The concert will ...

The Kreuz Church Choir of Dresden is world famous. Here they're performing Part One of the Christmas Oratorio by J.S. Bach. The Dresden Boys' Choir, Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra, and soloists are ...

The 2011-12 season of The Bach Cantata Choir continues on Friday, December 9th, 2011, with parts 4-6 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, The Christmas Concerto Op. 6, #8 by A. Correlli, and Wake, Awake by F ...