A Christmas Oratorio
About This Concert:
Join us for the grand finale of Bach’s six-part Oratorio as the Minnesota Chorale celebrates the naming and adoration of the Christ in the last three passionate cantatas of this soaring, sacred work.
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
- Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
- Robin Blaze, countertenor
- Richard Croft, tenor
- Christopher Edwards, baritone
- Minnesota Chorale
BACH
Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas 4, 5 and 6
Fun Facts:
- Bach’s Christmas Oratorio was written with the intention of each cantata being performed a different night over the 12 days of Christmas.
- The Christmas Oratorio, completed around Christmastime of 1734, is a set of six cantatas. Much like the passions of Matthew and John, it features a tenor Evangelist telling the story of Christ as it appears in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.
- For the Oratorio, Bach borrowed his own music, adapting choruses and arias from earlier secular works for this large-scale endeavor.
- A British conductor with a lifelong affinity for Bach and baroque music, Nicholas Kraemer “brings a zest and exuberance to even the most familiar works.” Chicago Classical Review
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About This Concert:
Join us for the grand finale of Bach’s six-part Oratorio as the Minnesota Chorale celebrates the naming and adoration of the Christ in the last three passionate cantatas of this soaring, sacred work.
- Minnesota Orchestra
- Nicholas Kraemer, conductor
- Sherezade Panthaki, soprano
- Robin Blaze, countertenor
- Richard Croft, tenor
- Christopher Edwards, baritone
- Minnesota Chorale
BACH
Christmas Oratorio, Cantatas 4, 5 and 6
Fun Facts:
- Bach’s Christmas Oratorio was written with the intention of each cantata being performed a different night over the 12 days of Christmas.
- The Christmas Oratorio, completed around Christmastime of 1734, is a set of six cantatas. Much like the passions of Matthew and John, it features a tenor Evangelist telling the story of Christ as it appears in the gospels of Luke and Matthew.
- For the Oratorio, Bach borrowed his own music, adapting choruses and arias from earlier secular works for this large-scale endeavor.
- A British conductor with a lifelong affinity for Bach and baroque music, Nicholas Kraemer “brings a zest and exuberance to even the most familiar works.” Chicago Classical Review
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