Bach Oratorio

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025)

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:09:59 | 295 Mb
Genre: Classical

San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues its exploration of J S Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnifcat.Released in time for Holy Week, both works are lavishly scored and feature some of Bach's most festive and popular vocal writing. With celebrated baroque music specialist Nicholas McGegan on the podium, and a roll call of today's fnest early music vocal soloists, this release is poised to build on the auspicious previous releases - a "bold and beautifully constructed" St. John Passion (BBC Radio 3 Record Review), and "an exemplary performance" of the Mass in B Minor (American Record Guide).
Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:10:00 minutes | 2.60 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues it's exploration of J.S. Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat.
Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025)

Cantata Collective & Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach: Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025)
FLAC (tracks), Lossless | 1:09:59 | 295 Mb
Genre: Classical

San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues its exploration of J S Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnifcat.Released in time for Holy Week, both works are lavishly scored and feature some of Bach's most festive and popular vocal writing. With celebrated baroque music specialist Nicholas McGegan on the podium, and a roll call of today's fnest early music vocal soloists, this release is poised to build on the auspicious previous releases - a "bold and beautifully constructed" St. John Passion (BBC Radio 3 Record Review), and "an exemplary performance" of the Mass in B Minor (American Record Guide).
Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]

Cantata Collective, Nicholas McGegan - J.S. Bach Easter Oratorio - Magnificat (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/192]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/192 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:10:00 minutes | 2.60 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

San Francisco-based Cantata Collective continues it's exploration of J.S. Bach's major choral masterworks with a third in the ongoing series, pairing the composer's Easter Oratorio and Magnificat.

J.S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition  eBooks & eLearning

Posted by insetes at March 12, 2022
J.S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition

J.S. Bach and the Oratorio Tradition By Daniel R. Melamed
2011 | 168 Pages | ISBN: 0252035844 | PDF | 8 MB
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2003/2009) [Official Digital Download 24b/192kHz]

Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 4,62 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 2,69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This is one of those occasions where beauty and artistry are reflected not only on the surface but right through to the core. This is a marvelous performance of Bach's six-cantata cycle that offers ravishing choral singing, sharply detailed orchestral playing, and superior contributions from the four solo vocalists, all presented in state-of-the-art sound.
Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - Bach: Christmas Oratorio (2003/2009) [Official Digital Download 24b/192kHz]

Jos van Veldhoven, The Netherlands Bach Society - J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (2003)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 4,62 GB
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time - 145:07 minutes | 2,69 GB
Studio Master, Official Digital Download | Artwork: Digital booklet

This is one of those occasions where beauty and artistry are reflected not only on the surface but right through to the core. This is a marvelous performance of Bach's six-cantata cycle that offers ravishing choral singing, sharply detailed orchestral playing, and superior contributions from the four solo vocalists, all presented in state-of-the-art sound.
Jan Willem de Vriend - Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (2007) [DSD64]

Jan Willem de Vriend - Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 (2007) [DSD64]
Classical, Orchestral, Choral, Vocal | DSD64 (*.dsf, tracks), 1-bit/5.64 MHz
Run Time: 02:18:13 | 5.77 GB + 5% Recovery
Label: Challenge Records | Release Year: 2007

“Jan Willem de Vriend oversees a joyful account of Bach's festive music with light-footed responses to dance rhythms. I can whole heartedly commend this issue for its expressive warmth, its disciplined choral singing and its natural declamation.”

J.S. Bach - Easter & Ascension Oratorios (Masaaki Suzuki) [2005] (PS3 SACD rip)  Vinyl & HR

Posted by evaristegalois at March 17, 2012
J.S. Bach - Easter & Ascension Oratorios (Masaaki Suzuki) [2005] (PS3 SACD rip)

J.S. Bach - Easter & Ascension Oratorios (Masaaki Suzuki) [2005] (PS3 SACD rip)
SACD ISO image: 3.22 GB | Scans PDF (800 dpi): 28.8 MB | 5% Recovery Record
Classical | Label: BIS Records | Catalog Number: BIS-SACD-1561 | Direction: Masaaki Suzuki, Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan

Eccezionale 5 Stelle Musica April 2006Hard on the heels of Volume 29 in the Bach Cantata series and their recording of the Orchestral Suites comes this new disc from Bach Collegium Japan. Genre-wise the present two works balance between oratorios and cantatas. Though their format is not far removed from that of the longer cantatas, some differences are obvious: for instance, in its earliest version the soloists in the Easter Oratorio were assigned roles (such as Mary Magdalene and Peter), while the Ascension Oratorio features an Evangelist, filling the same function as in the more monumental Passions. Both works - like the Christmas Oratorio - are, at least in part, so-called parodies: reworkings of secular occasional pieces as sacred compositions by adapting their texts.
Ralf Otto, Bachorchester Mainz, Bachchor Mainz - Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Weihnachtsoratorium (2018)

Ralf Otto, Bachorchester Mainz, Bachchor Mainz - Bach: Christmas Oratorio / Weihnachtsoratorium (2018)
EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue & Log) ~ 643 Mb | Total time: 145:17 | Scans included
Classical | Label: Naxos | 8.574001-02 | Recorded: 2017

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio was written for the Christmas season of 1734, and although it incorporates music from earlier works it belongs firmly among his timeless large-scale compositions. The development of the oratorio, which was to become a new musical form in Protestant church services at that time, was stimulated by Bach’s compositions, particularly by the unusual form of his six-part Christmas Oratorio. From its famously joyful opening ‘Jauchzet frohlocket’ to the arrival of the Wise Men from the East, this work’s enduring popularity has long proven its status as a choral ‘evergreen.’