J. S. Bach: Weihnachts-Oratorium
JORDI SAVALL - LA CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA + LE CONCERT DES NATIONS
2CD
CLASSICAL / CONTEMPORARY
ALIA VOX (AVOSA9940 02)
8435408099400
Johann Sebastian Bach composed six cantatas for the Christmas holidays in 1734, to have one performed for each particular holiday during services in the main churches of Leipzig, St. Thomas and St. Nicholas.
Both the narrative march of the Gospel and the tonality in which the musical framework was composed, give the cantatas a character of an autonomous cycle that Jordi Savall and his groups face for the first time.