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 ...

The annual performance of a Christmas Oratorio is happening this weekend. 5 EYEWITNESS NEWS anchor Brett Hoffland sat down with Matthias Maute, Artistic Director at the Bach Society of Minnesota, to ...

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 ...

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 ...

This weekend, I Cantori di Carmel’s presentation of J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, led by the choir’s music director Daniel Henriks, promises to be a bright and festive highlight of the December ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 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 ...