Netherlands Bach Society | Bach's Christmas Oratorio - Bridging the earthly and the heavenly | Netherlands Bach Society @bach | Uploaded 10 months ago | Updated 7 minutes ago
In this background video on the Christmas Oratorio - recorded for All of Bach in the Geertekerk Utrecht and Grote Kerk Naarden - violinist and leader Shunske Sato takes the viewer back to eighteenth-century Germany and the Christmas traditions of the time. How does Bach's Christmas Oratorio fits within these traditions? Using musical examples, played on the spot by the ensemble, you will learn more about Bach's great Christmas work and Sato's take on it.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on December 14th 2022 at Geertekerk Utrecht and Grote Kerk Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/3J5uprM.
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato, violin and leader
List of performed movements:
7:39 Bach - Duet ‘Ich bin deine, du bist meine’ from Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213
Ich bin deine (I am yours)
du bist meine, (You are mine,)
küsse mich, (Kiss me,)
ich küsse dich. (I kiss you.)
9:23 Bach - Duet ‘Herr dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen’, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
10:20 Bach - Choral ‘Wie soll ich dich empfangen’, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
11:58 Hans Leo Hassler - Mein G'müth ist mir verwirret
Mein G'müth ist mir verwirret, (I’m all mixed up,)
das macht ein Jungfrau zart; (this a tender maid has done to me;)
bin ganz und gar verirret, (I’m totally lost,)
mein Herz das kränckt sich hart. (my heart is sick and sore.)
Hab Tag und Nacht kein Ruh, (I get no rest by day or night,)
führ allzeit grosse Klag, (my pain is always so great.)
tu stets seufzen und weinen, (I’m sighing and crying all the time,)
in trauren Schier verzag. (I’m almost in despair.)
13:25 Bach - sketch for Schließe mein Herze, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
14:37 Bach - sketch for Schließe mein Herze, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
15:53 Bach - Schließe mein Herze, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (final version)
In this background video on the Christmas Oratorio - recorded for All of Bach in the Geertekerk Utrecht and Grote Kerk Naarden - violinist and leader Shunske Sato takes the viewer back to eighteenth-century Germany and the Christmas traditions of the time. How does Bach's Christmas Oratorio fits within these traditions? Using musical examples, played on the spot by the ensemble, you will learn more about Bach's great Christmas work and Sato's take on it.
Recorded for the project All of Bach on December 14th 2022 at Geertekerk Utrecht and Grote Kerk Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating bit.ly/3J5uprM.
All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society, with the aim to perform and record all of Bach's works and share them online with the world for free. Visit our online treasury for more videos and background material on https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/allofbach. For concert dates and tickets go to https://www.bachvereniging.nl/en/concerts.
Netherlands Bach Society
Shunske Sato, violin and leader
List of performed movements:
7:39 Bach - Duet ‘Ich bin deine, du bist meine’ from Laßt uns sorgen, laßt uns wachen, BWV 213
Ich bin deine (I am yours)
du bist meine, (You are mine,)
küsse mich, (Kiss me,)
ich küsse dich. (I kiss you.)
9:23 Bach - Duet ‘Herr dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen’, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
10:20 Bach - Choral ‘Wie soll ich dich empfangen’, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
11:58 Hans Leo Hassler - Mein G'müth ist mir verwirret
Mein G'müth ist mir verwirret, (I’m all mixed up,)
das macht ein Jungfrau zart; (this a tender maid has done to me;)
bin ganz und gar verirret, (I’m totally lost,)
mein Herz das kränckt sich hart. (my heart is sick and sore.)
Hab Tag und Nacht kein Ruh, (I get no rest by day or night,)
führ allzeit grosse Klag, (my pain is always so great.)
tu stets seufzen und weinen, (I’m sighing and crying all the time,)
in trauren Schier verzag. (I’m almost in despair.)
13:25 Bach - sketch for Schließe mein Herze, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
14:37 Bach - sketch for Schließe mein Herze, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
15:53 Bach - Schließe mein Herze, from Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (final version)
