In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach ...

Handel might have a chokehold on holiday-season oratorios with “Messiah.” But Bach’s lesser-known “Christmas Oratorio” has some festive fireworks and exultant beauty of its own. “The U.S. has adopted ...

For some, Handel’s “Messiah” remains a cherished ritual. For others, it has become so predictable as to feel almost unavoidable — a seasonal monument polished smooth by repetition. This season, the ...

Nov. 18—Celebrate the solstice with Bach when the New Mexico Bach Chorale comes to Santa Fe and Albuquerque next weekend. The singers will perform the composer's famed Christmas Oratorio: Part V, the ...

Christmas is coming and Taylor Festival Choir and Orchestra is tuning up. They are ready to get the holiday off to a rousing start with Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Christmas Oratorio.” The concert will ...

The Mad River Chorale is bucking local holiday tradition this year, eschewing Handel for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, performing Part I of his Christmas Oratorio — in English! “It’s got such a ...

The Bach Choir reprised J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio Saturday and Sunday in glorious form, led by Greg Funfgeld. At the second annual Bethlehem Bach Festival in 1901, the Choir presented the ...

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, ...

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 annual Crow River Singers holiday concerts are like beautifully wrapped Christmas presents. You never know what’s going to be inside. The same can be said about the community choir’s musical ...

The 2011-12 season of The Bach Cantata Choir continues on Friday, December 9th, 2011, with parts 4-6 of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, The Christmas Concerto Op. 6, #8 by A. Correlli, and Wake, Awake by F ...