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Flamboyant Christmas Oratorio from Stephen Layton and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

By Patrick Maxwell, 22 December 2024

A star-studded group of soloists and a wonderful choir make for an interesting, if not always convincing, interpretation of Bach's joyous oratorio.

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London

22 Dec 2024

Flamboyant Christmas Oratorio from Stephen Layton and the OAE

By Patrick Maxwell

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Cancelled Christmas? Knot on your life: Bach at Wigmore Hall

By Benjamin Poore, 20 December 2021

The Solomon's Knot collective offered a lively account of four cantatas from Bach's Christmas Oratorio.

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****1

London

21 Dec 2021

Cancelled Christmas? Knot on your life: Bach at Wigmore Hall

By Benjamin Poore

Seasonal gifts from the BBC Singers in Bach's Christmas Oratorio

By Roy Westbrook, 22 December 2018

The BBC Singers sounded as ecstatically joyful in the first three parts of Bach's seasonal offering in Chelsea.

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London

23 Dec 2018

Seasonal gifts from the BBC Singers

By Roy Westbrook