With the edition of the Christmas Oratorio within the framework of the Stuttgart Bach Editions, Carus presents a scholarly edition for practical performance. The basis for this publication are Bach’s autograph score and the original parts. The conducting score contains an appendix with a concise Critical Report which provides information about the sources and their readings; when necessary, the latter are discussed in more detail, especially with regard to how the editor arrived at solutions for questions of articulation which differ from those found in previous editions. The representative, clothbound volume is supplemented by a study score as well as a choral score, a vocal score and complete orchestral material. In the orchestral material short excerpts containing the conclusions of the secco recitatives are rendered with cue notes in separate vocal systems printed above the score where the instrumentalists pause, thus enabling them make their entrances in the movements which follow these recitatives.
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, english translationhtml file, Singing text, english translation (Sample)Part I: The first day of Christmas 1. CoroShout ye exultant this Day of Salvation,
2. Evangelista (Tenore)
glory to God in the highest today!
Fear ye no longer, forsake lamentation,
sing ye with gladness, exultant and gay!
Worship the Master and bow ye before him.
Come all ye faithful with song to adore him.And in those same days it came to pass, that there went out a decree from Augustus Caesar, that all the world enroll for taxes, and ev’ryone went, that he might be reborded, each going into his own city. And also there went up Joseph from Galilee up out of Nazareth, to the city of David, in Judea, which is called Bethlehem, for Joseph was of the house and of the lineage of David; that there might be enrolled for tax with Mary, Mary, his wedded wife, being great with child. And while they yet were there it came the time that she should be delivered.
3. Recitativo (Alto)At last, beloved Saviour mine,
4. Aria
at last, thou Child of David’s line
art come, our consolation,
to compass man’s salvation.
At last is Jacob’s star fair shining,
behold its glorious ray.
Up Zion, put away from thee repining,
for all is well today....
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text (without music) for download, html file, Singing text, originalhtml file, Singing text, original (Sample)Teil I: Am 1. Weihnachtstage 1. Coro
Jauchzet, frohlocket! auf, preiset die Tage,
2. Evangelista (Tenore)
rühmet, was heute der Höchste getan!
Lasset das Zagen, verbannet die Klage,
stimmet voll Jauchzen und Fröhlichkeit an!
Dienet dem Höchsten mit herrlichen Chören,
lasst uns den Namen des Herrschers verehren!Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit, dass ein Gebot von dem Kaiser Augusto ausging, dass alle Welt geschätzet würde. Und jedermann ging, dass er sich schätzen ließe, ein jeglicher in seine Stadt. Da machte sich auch auf Joseph aus Galiläa, aus der Stadt Nazareth, in das jüdische Land zur Stadt David, die da heißet Bethlehem; darum, dass er von dem Hause und Geschlechte David war, auf dass er sich schätzen ließe mit Maria, seinem vertrauten Weibe, die war schwanger. Und als sie daselbst waren, kam die Zeit, dass sie gebären sollte.
3. Recitativo (Alto)Nun wird mein liebster Bräutigam,
nun wird der Held aus Davids Stamm
zum Trost, zum Heil der Erden,
einmal geboren werden.
Nun wird der Stern aus Jakob scheinen,
sein Strahl bricht schon hervor.
Auf, Zion, und verlasse nun das...
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Englishhtml file, Introductory text, English (Sample)Text from the CD Carus 83.312
Meinrad Walter
Translation: Erik DorsetWhat would Christmas be without music? The angles in the Bible do not merely speak the divine message of peace; they sing “Gloria in Excelsis Deo.” Songs such as O du fröhliche (O, how joyful) or Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (From Heaven above to Earth I come) are simply part of the Christmas holiday season. But the epitome of Christmas music is Bach’s Christmas Oratorio, which opens with a drum roll. Tönet, ihr Pauken! (Sound, you drums!) was the title of the cantata that paid homage to the Saxon Electress and Polish Queen Maria Josepha, the music of which Bach reworked to make one of the most successful pieces of Christmas music of all time. And maybe even the composer suspected that although that very Queen would disappear silently and wordlessly, Christmas, as a multifaceted subject for which the Bach invented great music, was to stay.
Let us now move over to the Advent season in 1734 in Leipzig. On the first Sunday of Advent, the Thomaskantor performed Telemann’s cantata Machet die Tore weit (Lift up your heads, you gates) in the main worship service. From the second to the
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text (without music) for download, html file, Introductory text, Germanhtml file, Introductory text, German (Sample)Booklet-Text der CD Carus 83.312
Meinrad Walter
Was wäre Weihnachten ohne Musik? Bereits die biblischen Engel sprechen die himmlische Friedensbotschaft nicht, sondern sie singen das Gloria in excelsis Deo. Lieder wie O du fröhliche oder Vom Himmel hoch, da komm ich her gehören einfach dazu, wenn es Weihnachten werden soll. Die konzertante Weihnachtsmusik schlechthin aber ist Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium. Mit Paukenschlägen geht es los. Tönet, ihr Pauken!, so hieß die Huldigungskantate für die sächsische Kurfürstin und polnische Königin Maria Josepha, die Bach zur erfolgreichsten Weihnachtsmusik aller Zeiten umgearbeitet hat. Und vielleicht ahnte der Komponist ja sogar, dass jene Königin sang- und klanglos verschwinden wird, Weihnachten hingegen bleibt: als vielgestaltiges Thema, zu dem Bach großartige Musik erfunden hat.
Versetzen wir uns in die Adventszeit 1734 in Leipzig. Am ersten Adventssonntag hat der Thomaskantor Telemanns Kantate Machet die Tore weit im Hauptgottesdienst musiziert. Vom zweiten bis vierten Advent schwieg dann die festliche Musik, um dem Charakter der Bußzeit Rechnung zu tragen; ein Freiraum, den Bach
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