4/5. With Donald Macleod. Advent in Lutheran Leipzig, 1723, was a time of penitence, but Bach was busier than ever preparing a packed performance schedule to begin on Christmas Day, when the congregation of St Thomas 's Church would hear a musical extravaganza. Sanctus in D, BWV238 Catherine Bott and Elizabeth Scholl (sopranos), Christopher Robson (countertenor), Paul Agnew and Andrew King (tenors), Michael George (bass), New London Consort, conductor Philip Pickett
Cantata No 63: Christen, atzet diesen Tag Ann Monoyios (soprano), Sara Mingardo
(contralto), Rufus Miiller (tenor), Stephan Loges (bass), Monteverdi Choir. English Barogue Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Et Exultavit Spiritus Meus (Magnificat in E flat, BWV243a) Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, conductor Simon Preston
Cantata No 83: Erfreute Zeit im neuen
Bunde Robin Tyson (countertenor), Paul Agnew (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English
Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner Repeated at 8.45pm