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Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248

- Cantata 5

Discussions in the Week of November 7, 2004

Doug Cowling wrote (November 17, 2004):
Christmas Oratorio and St. Mark Passion

I read many years ago that some musicologists thought that the chorus of the Magi in Pt V was a recycled turba chorus from the lost St. Mark Passion (BWV 247). Bach of course reused metrical texts all the time, but I always thought it unlikely that he would have reworked a prose passage from the biblical narrative. Anyone know the present state of scholarly opinion?

Bradley Lehman wrote (November 17, 2004):
[To Doug Cowling] According to the 1998 edition of BWV (pp 270-2), that movement 248/45 is still listed as a parody from the (lost) BWV 247/39b, as you surmised.

Allegedly based on Mark chapter 15, vv 25-34.

David Glenn Lebut Jr. wrote (November 17, 2004):
[To Doug Cowling] And that is not the only recycling in the work. Remember Nr. 2b? That is now thought to have used the same music as the Choral movement "Lasset uns nun gehen gen Bethlehem, und das gesehen, was sie zu uns verkuendiget hat" ("Let us go unto Bethlehem" ("Let us now go unto Bethlehem") from Kantate III of the Weinachtsoratorium.

Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248: Details
Recordings: Until 1960 | 1961-1970 | 1971-1980 | 1981-1990 | 1991-2000 | From 2001 | Individual Movements
General Discussions: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Systematic Discussions: Cantata 1 | Cantata 2 | Cantata 3 | Cantata 4 | Cantata 5 | Cantata 6 | Part 7: Summary
Individual Recordings: BWV 248 – Christophers | BWV 248 - Gardiner | BWV 248 - Jacobs | BWV 248 - Otto | BWV 248 - Richter | BWV 248 - Rilling | BWV 248 – Suzuki | BWV 248 – Kurt Thomas | BWV 248 - Veldhoven
Articles: A Bottomless Bucket of Bach – Christmas Oratorio (by Donald Satz)

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Recordings & Discussions of Other Vocal Works: Motets BWV 225-231 | Mass in B minor BWV 232 | Missae Breves & Sanctus BWV 233-242 | Magnificat BWV 243 | Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 | Johannes-Passion BWV 245 | Lukas-Passion BWV 246 | Markus-Passion BWV 247 | Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 | Oster-Oratorium BWV 249 | Chorales BWV 250-438 | Geistliche Lieder BWV 439-507 | AMN BWV 508-523 | Quodlibet BWV 524 | Aria BWV 1127

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