Augsburger Domsingknaben / Residenz-Kammerorchester Munchen, Reinhard Kammler

Augsburger Domsingknaben / Residenz-Kammerorchester Munchen, Reinhard Kammler: J.S. Bach: Weinachtsoratorium I-III, BWV 248

by C. Michael Bailey
December 3, 2010

Perhaps only second to Handel's Messiah is J.S. Bach's Weinachtsoratorium, BWV 248, in a list of favorite baroque Christmas offerings. This performance of Bach's Christmas Oratorio took place in audience with and honor of His Holiness, Benedict XVI at the Sistine Chapel, December 4, 2009. A Munchen band, playing for a Munchen Priest, in the center of Catholic Christendom. Bach was a providential Lutheran who composed Sole Deo Gloria, no matter what Church employed him. He took ...