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2023-12-25 15:49:21
Christmas 2023
This Week in Classical Music: December 25, 2023. Christmas. We wish our listeners a Merry Christmas! On this wonderful day, we won’t bother you with disquisitions and analyses but will present some Christmas music for your pleasure – and this joyful piece is perfect for the occasion. It’s the first section of Johann Sebastian Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, a cantata known for the initial words of the first chorus as Jauchzet, frohlocket! (Shout for joy, exult). It was first performed on this day in 1734, in the morning, at St. Nicholas; and then in the afternoon, at St. Thomas in Leipzig: Bach, as Thomaskantor, was the music director of both churches and led both performances. What we will hear is a recording made in January of 1987 by John Eliot Gardiner conducting the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir and several prominent soloists, Anne-Sophie von Otter among them. Enjoy and see you […]
2023-12-24 23:07:16
Johann Sebastian Bach - Christmas Oratorio, Part IThe English Baroque Soloists (Ensemble)Monteverdi Choir (Chorale)John Eliot Gardiner (Conductor)
2023-11-04 09:31:00
Music knows no borders: countertenor Reginald Mobley on the music of Ignatius Sancho, spirituals as Early Music and the importance of diversity
[…] these and he feel that it keeps him honest, this music is an instinctual thing, reflecting how he processes and moves through life. He reiterates that though style and genre might change, it is important that he remain himself. He regards this as the ultimate gift as a singer, to be vulnerable, to show yourself as you are. People are more willing to trust you when you are being honest.During October 2023 he joined the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conductor Dinis Sousa, for Bach's Mass in B Minor in Chicago, New York, Princeton, and Ottowa (Canada). Then looking ahead he has plenty of Messiah performances coming up. In 2022, he performed as Christus with SingFest Choral Academy Hong Kong and lautten compagney BERLIN in a staging of Bach's St John Passion at the Thuringia Bach Festival, and they are mounting it again in Hong Kong next year. Reginald […]
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