Stephen Layton, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2013)
Stephen Layton, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2013)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 724 Mb | Total time: 151:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA 68031/2 | Recorded: 2012
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 724 Mb | Total time: 151:49 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Hyperion | # CDA 68031/2 | Recorded: 2012
Christmas Oratorio is topical, it’s also universal. It doesn’t require lights or tinsel or presents under the tree to instruct, inspire, and/or entertain, especially if it is presented in as fine a performance as this one fashioned by Stephen Layton and his cohort. Layton is the director of music at Trinity College, Cambridge (having succeeded Richard Marlow), and his choir is top-notch, as is the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, mercifully identified as OAE. OAE’s roster is rife with such familiar names from the period instruments movement as Margaret Faultless (who is just that here) and Alison Bury. To mention Anthony Robson, oboe, and David Blackadder, trumpet, is not to slight any of the other players. Layton’s solo quartet is outstanding, too. James Gilchrist is always excellent, but never more so than here, doubling as Evangelist and soloist. Iestyn Davies has risen to the top rank of countertenors. Katherine Watson’s sweet soprano and Matthew Brook’s resonant bass are no less gratifying. Layton’s direction is near perfect, on the mark from start to finish. I’ve long treasured John Eliot Gardiner’s Christmas Oratorio , but Sir John will have to make room Stephen Layton at the top of my list.–George Chien
Performer:
Katherine Watson, soprano
Iestyn Davies, countertenor
James Gilchrist, tenor (Evangelist)
Matthew Brook, bass
The Choir of Trinity College Cambridge
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
Stephen Layton, conductor
Tracklist:
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
CD1:
Part 1: For the First Day of Christmas
01. Chorus: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage
02. Recitative (Evangelist): Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit
03. Recitative (Alto): Nun wird mein liebster Bräutigam
04. Aria (Alto): Bereite dich, Zion, mit zärtlichen Trieben
05. Chorale: Wie soll ich dich empfangen
06. Recitative (Evangelist): Und sie gebar ihren ersten Sohn
07. Chorale (Sopranos) & Recitative (Bass): Er ist auf Erden kommen arm / Wer will die Liebe reicht erhöhn
08. Aria (Bass): Großer Herr, o starker König
09. Chorale: Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein
Part 2: For the Second Day of Christmas
10. Sinfonia
11. Recitative (Evangelist): Und es waren Hirten in derselben Gegend
12. Chorale: Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht
13. Recitative (Evangelist, the Angel): Und der Engel sprach zu ihnen
14. Recitative (Bass): Was Gott dem Abraham verheißen
15. Aria (Tenor): Frohe Hirten, eilt, ach eilet
16. Recitative (Evangelist): Und das habt zum Zeichen
17. Chorale: Schaut hin, dort liegt im finstern Stall
18. Recitative (Bass): So geht denn hin, ihr Hirten, geht
19. Aria (Alto): Schlafe, mein Liebster, genieße der Ruh'
20. Recitative (Evangelist): Und alsobald war da bei dem Engel
21. Chorus: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe
22. Recitative (Bass): So recht, ihr Engel, jachzt und singet
23. Chorale: Wir singen dir in deinem Heer
Part 3: For the Third Day of Christmas
24. Chorus: Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
25. Recitative (Evangelist): Und da die Engel von ihnen gen Himmel fuhren
26. Chorus: Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem
27. Recitative (Bass): Er hat sein Volk getröst'
28. Chorale: Dies hat er alles uns getan
29. Duet (Soprano, Bass): Herr, dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen
30. Recitative (Evangelist): Und sie kamen eilend
31. Aria (Alto): Schließe, mein Herze, dies selige Wunder
32. Recitative (Alto): Ja, ja, mein Herz soll es bewahren
33. Chorale: Ich will dich mit Fleiß bewahren
34. Recitative (Evangelist): Und die Hirten kehrten wieder um
35. Chorale: Seid froh dieweil
36. Chorus da capo: Herrscher des Himmels, erhöre das Lallen
CD2:
Part 4: For the Feast Day of Circumcision
01. Chorus: Fallt mit Danken, fallt mit Loben
02. Recitative (Evangelist): Und da acht Tage um waren
03. Recitative (Bass) & Arioso (Sopranos, Bass): Immanuel, o süßes Wort! / Jesu, du mein liebstes Leben
04. Aria (Soprano, Echo Soprano): Flößt, mein Heiland, flößt dein Namen
05. Recitative (Bass) & Chorale (Sopranos): Wohlan, dein Name soll allein / Jesu, meine Freud und Wonne
06. Aria (Tenor): Ich will nur dir zu Ehren leben
07. Chorale: Jesus richte mein Beginnen
Part 5: For the first sunday in the New Year
08. Chorus: Ehre sei dir, Gott, gesungen
09. Recitative (Evangelist): Da Jesus geboren war zu Bethlehem
10. Chorus with Recitative (Alto): Wo ist der neugeborne König der Jüden?
11. Chorale: Dein Glanz all Finsternis verzehrt
12. Aria (Bass): Erleucht auch meine finstre Sinnen
13. Recitative (Evangelist): Da das der König Herodes hörte
14. Recitative (Alto): Warum wollt ihr erschrecken?
15. Recitative (Evangelist): Und ließ versammlen alle Hohepriester
16. Trio (Soprano, Alto, Tenor): Ach, wenn wird die Zeit erxheinen?
17. Recitative (Alto): Mein Liebster herrschet schon
18. Chorale: Zwar ist solche Herzensstube
Part 6: For the Feast of Epiphany
19. Chorus: Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben
20. Recitative (Evangelist, Herod): Da berief Herodes die Weisen heimlich
21. Recitative (Soprano): Du Falscher, suche nur den Herrn zu fällen
22. Aria (Soprano): Nur ein Wink von seinen Händen
23. Recitative (Evangelist): Als sie nun den König gehöret hatten
24. Chorale: Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
25. Recitative (Evangelist): Und Gott befahl ihnen im Traum
26. Recitative (Tenor): So geht! Genug, mein Schatz geht nicht von hier
27. Aria (Tenor): Nun mögt ihr stolzen Feinde schrecken
28. Recitative (Quartet): Was will der Höllen Schrecken nun
29. Chorale: Nun seid ihr wohl gerochen
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Stephen Layton, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2013)
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