Christmas with the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
This extraordinary Christmas Edition of the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra presents well-known classical Christmas compositions combined with popular carols and jazzy improvisations. Including excerpts from Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and many other seasonal Bach standards and popular Christmas songs, such as Es ist ein Ros entsprungen and Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht.
Johann Sebastian Bach: Bereite dich, Zion (from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 284); Le Baylère; Schlummert ein, ihr matten Augen (from: Cantata No. 82); O Jesulein süß, BWV 493; Concerto in D Major, BWV 972, Allegro; “Wachet auf, ihr Adern und ihr Glieder”, Cantata; “Unser Mund sei voll des Lachens”; “Nun seid Ihr wohl gerochen” (from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248); “Sinfonia” (from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248); “Ehre sei Dir, Gott gesungen” (from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248); “Herr dein Mitleid, dein Erbarmen” (from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248); Je me suis levé; In dulci Jubilo; “Großer Herr, o starker König” (from: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248); Suite in D Major, BVW 1068
Antonio Vivaldi: Violin Concerto in E Major, RV 270 "Il riposo", "Per il S. Natale"; Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
Georg Friedrich Händel: Thou Art Gone up on High (from: Messiah, HWV 56); “He shall feed his flock”; Messiah Erhard Mauersberger: Weihnacht; Es ist ein Ros entsprungen; Little Thing Jesus
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto grosso No. 8 in G minor, Op. 6; Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her; Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht; In the Silence of the Night; O sanctissima – O du fröhliche
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: “Et incarnatus est”; Mass in C minor, KV 427