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ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers: The Adoration of the Magi

German baroque choral and instrumental music for the season of Epiphany: motets, chorales and cantatas to mark the turning of the year and the coming of the Wise Men.

The Adoration of the Magi.

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers, St James's Baroque, James O'Donnell (conductor).

Live from St Paul's, Knightsbridge, in London, Petroc Trelawny introduces a programme of German Baroque music for the season of Epiphany: motets, chorales and cantatas to mark the turning of the year and the coming of the Wise Men.

James O'Donnell conducts the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Singers and period-instrument ensemble St James' Baroque in music by J S Bach and some of his musical contemporaries and forebears, and by one of the earliest composers of the whole Bach dynasty - Heinrich Bach, born in 1615.

Samuel Scheidt: Das alte Jahr vergangen ist.
Franz Tunder: Helft mir Gott's Güte preisen.
Dietrich Buxtehude: Alles, was ihr tut mit Worten oder mit werken.
Heinrich Bach: Sinfonias.
J S Bach: Alles nur nach Gottes Willen, BWV 72.

c. 8.25 pm: During the interval, organ settings of the great Epiphany chorale "How Brightly Shines the Morning Star".

c. 8.45 pm: Part 2.
Samuel Scheidt: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern.
Johann Kuhnau: Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden.
Heinrich Bach: Sinfonias.
J S Bach: Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit, BWV 111.

2 hours, 30 minutes

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Mon 9 Jan 2012 19:30

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