Koopman Bach Christmas Cantatas 3 x CD Set 2003 Classical Amsterdam Baroque Orch

Description: J. S. Bach Christmas Cantatas 3 x CD Boxed Set #CC72230Featuring The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra & Choir Conducted by Ton KoopmanAntoine Marchand/Challenge Classics, 2003 Condition as shown in photos. Cardboard case. Slight wear with school library stickers on front of case. Otherwise no markings found. CDs in very good condition. Staple-bound booklet has slight wear with no markings found. Tracklist (from Discogs): CD 1:1-6Ich Freue Mich In Dir Bwv 133 18:367-12Gelobet Sei Du, Jesu Christ Bwv 91 16:2013-19 Christen Ätzet Diesen Tag Bwv 63 28:2020-27 Dazu Ist Erschienen Der Sohn Gottes Bwv 40 14:05 CD 2:1-6Das Neugeborne Kindelein Bwv 122 13:307-9Gloria In Excelsis Deo Bwv 191 14:4810-17Sehet, Welche Leiebe Hat Uns Der Vater Erzeiget Bwv 64 17:4518-23Christum Wir Sollen Loben Schon Bwv 121 19:34 CD 3:1-6Tritt Auf Die Glaubensbahn Bwv 152 16:527-12Jesu, Nun Sei Gepreiset Bwv 41 25:1813-19Singet Dem Herrn Ein Neues Lied Bwv 190 16:1820-26Sie Werden Aus Saba Alle Kommen Bwv 65 14:12 From Graham's Music blog: By the time Bach took up the post of Thomaskantor in Leipzig in 1723, the position he held for the last 27 years of his life, he'd already had numerous church and court appointments, many of which provided the opportunity for him to write cantatas for church services. The cantata was an integral part of North German Lutheran worship at the time, being performed before (and sometimes also after) the sermon, and specifically designed to illuminate the Gospel reading for the day. In Leipzig a cantata was required for almost every Sunday of the year as well as major feast days like Christmas, Easter and so forth. In all, some sixty cantatas were required each year and in his first two years in Leipzig, Bach deliberately set himself a punishing schedule to arrange complete cycles of cantatas - most of which were new works - for use in future years. Christmas Day was then - as now - an especially important day in the church calendar and something on a large scale was normally expected when it came to the Christmas Day cantata. Some years later - in 1734 - Bach devised the well-known Christmas Oratorio, made up of six cantatas to be performed on the six major feast days between 25 December and 6 January; part one of the Christmas Oratorio is the cantata for Christmas Day 1734. But before this Bach wrote other cantatas for performance on 25 December. Of these one has sadly only survived incomplete (now known as BWV197a). But the other three are magnificent.

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