Bach Händel
Bach Händel
Georg Friedrich Händel
Dixit Dominus
Johann Sebastian Bach
Magnificat
Introduction 45 min before the performance.
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Bach Händel
Abstract
Bach Händel
As cantor of St. Thomas, Johann Sebastian Bach was responsible for the music in the main churches of the city of Leipzig from 1723. Many of his famous vocal works were written during his Leipzig years, including the Magnificat, which Bach performed at Christmas in the year he first took up his position. In keeping with the high holiday, he composed the work for soloists, five-part choir, and a festive orchestration with timpani and trumpets. The work is based on the Canticle of Mary from the Gospel of Luke, which Bach set to music in Latin. Riccardo Minasi performs Bach's Magnificat on the Fourth Sunday of Advent with the Balthasar Neumann Choir and the Orchestra La Scintilla, combining it with the psalm setting Dixit Dominus, which George Frideric Handel wrote at the age of only 22 at the request of the Catholic Church in Rome.
Abstract
Bach Händel
As cantor of St. Thomas, Johann Sebastian Bach was responsible for the music in the main churches of the city of Leipzig from 1723. Many of his famous vocal works were written during his Leipzig years, including the Magnificat, which Bach performed at Christmas in the year he first took up his position. In keeping with the high holiday, he composed the work for soloists, five-part choir, and a festive orchestration with timpani and trumpets. The work is based on the Canticle of Mary from the Gospel of Luke, which Bach set to music in Latin. Riccardo Minasi performs Bach's Magnificat on the Fourth Sunday of Advent with the Balthasar Neumann Choir and the Orchestra La Scintilla, combining it with the psalm setting Dixit Dominus, which George Frideric Handel wrote at the age of only 22 at the request of the Catholic Church in Rome.