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 ...

The holidays may be over, but that doesnt mean the good cheer needs to end. Enjoy a festive concert including the exuberant Bach Christmas Oratorio Part V: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen, and passionate ...

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, ...

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 ...

McCreesh adheres to the theory that Bach’s so-called choral works would actually, in his day, have been performed, not by a choir, but by four singers singing all the music, one to a part. This notion ...

Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is a cornerstone of the choral literature that is both monolithic and disparate, exalted and intimate. A staple of the holiday season in the composer’s ...

andel's "Messiah" is considered worldwide the ultimate Christmas music, but it wasn't written for Christmas and the oratorio, in fact, includes the death and resurrection of Christ. Johann Sebastian ...