Bach - Cantata Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63 - Creed | Netherlands Bach Society

Bach’s large-scale cantata 'Christen, ätzet diesen Tag', here performed by the Netherlands Bach Society conducted by Marcus Creed, includes four trumpets, three oboes and timpani. It was performed on Christmas Day 1723, in Leipzig, where Bach had been working for less than six months. So it was his first Christmas there. The cantata he performed was not new, but one he had brought with him from Weimar, where Bach had performed it around 1714/1715 for Advent.

Recorded for the project All of Bach on December 13th 2018 at the Grote Kerk, Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel http://bit.ly/2vhCeFB and consider donating http://bit.ly/2uZuMj5.

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Netherlands Bach Society
Marcus Creed, conductor
Griet de Geyter, sopran
Alex Potter, alto
Guy Cutting, tenor
Matthias Winckhler, bass

0:00 Christen, ätzet diesen Tag (Chor)
5:15 O selger Tag! (Rezitativ)
8:08 Gott, du hast es wohl gefüget (Duett)
15:29 So kehret sich (Rezitativ)
16:23 Ruft und fleht den Himmel an (Duett)
19:58 Verdoppelt euch demnach (Rezitativ)
21:02 Höchster, schau in Gnaden an (Chor)