Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248 - conducted by Rene Jacobs

Recording

V-1	Weihnachts-Oratorium BWV 248
René Jacobs
RIAS-Kammerchor / Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin
Soprano: Dorothea Röschmann; Alto: Andreas Scholl; Tenor: Werner Güra; Bass: Klaus Häger
Harmonia Mundi France		Jan 1997	2-CD / TT: 152:23

René Jacobs’ XO

S.W. Anandgyan wrote (December 6, 2003):
I'm listening to the Christmas Oratorio available on Harmonia Mundi and the word that comes up to me is vivid, as in not timid or subdued, and the sound is so gorgeous. There is a crispness to this recording, or is the playing, that allows me to say it is currently top in my top three, read with Gardiner and Herreweghe.

Once more I apologize for the lack of details, but for the pleasure of sharing I'm allowed !

Donald Satz wrote (December 6, 2003):
[To S.W. Anandgyan] I enjoy each of the versions mentioned below. I favor the Gardiner for its quick pacing and fantastic brass and winds contributions - also, the Evangelist Anthony Rolfe Johnson is superb.

Cmgas wrote (December 6, 2003):
[To S.W. Anandgyan] Listening to a great new Bach recording makes the world right, doesn't it? People found me smiling through the Christmas Oratorio, which I heard in total for the first time just a few weeks ago.

How did you like the echo compared to Gardiner's? I was really thrilled that Bach could pull that off in church; it sounded so playful. Maybe I'm being naive.

So, I'm trying to find a recording of the Herreweghe Christmas Cantatas from Leipzig. I'll get hold of the Herreweghe and Rene Jacobs Oratorio when the time is right. I've never heard any of Jacobs, but I see that W. Gura is the tenor. I just loved his singing in the S. Matthew's Passion under Herreweghe. What about you?

Happy for your new find.

Yoël L. Arbeitman wrote (December 7, 2003):
[To Donald Satz] ARJ does the same magic as the recitant in Gardiner's L'Enfance du
Christ (of Berlioz). He is extraordinary.

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