J.S. Bach: Cantata BWV 248 ‘Weihnachtsoratorium’ (J.S. Bach Foundation)

J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio presents itself as a cycle of similarly structured individual works whose continuity rests on the Christmas narrative according to the Gospels of Luke and Matthew, as well as on the recurrence of certain types of settings and the dramaturgy typical of Bach’s cantata oeuvre. Our decision to dedicat...