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Bach Year

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Anthony Burton explores recordings of Bach's Christmas Oratorio.This work was intended for performance over six separate services from Christmas day to Epiphany, yet the Leipzig congregations of 1734-5, and Bach himself, would have treated this as a single work performed over an extended festival.

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Anthony Burton
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