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Radio 3 Live in Concert: The English Concert - Corelli, Bach

The English Concert - Corelli, Bach

17/12/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Radio 3 Live in Concert, The English Concert - Corelli, Bach

The English Concert plays music by Corelli and Bach at Christ Church Spitalfields.

The English Concert performs at Christ Church Spitalfields. Corelli: Christmas Concerto. Bach: Cantata: Schwingt freudig euch empor, BWV36; Magnificat in D, BWV243.

Live from Christ Church Spitalfields

Presented by Petroc Trelawny

As part of Spitalfields Music Winter Festival 2012, The English Concert plays Christmas music by Corelli and J.S. Bach.


Corelli: Christmas Concerto

Bach: Cantata 'Schwingt freudig euch empor' (Soar Joyfully Upwards) (BWV 36)

7.50: Interval 

Bach: Magnificat in D major (BWV 243)


The Choir of The English Concert 
The English Concert 
Laurence Cummings director/organ

East London's 12-day winter festival nears its close with one of Europe's leading period instrument ensembles in three pieces for Christmas. Corelli's Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8 is best known by its subtiltle "Fatto per la notte di Natale" (Made for the night of Christmas) - he composed it for his Roman patron Cardinal Ottoboni around 1690. Bach's Cantata no.36 is a good example of the composer's recycling techniques - it started life as a secular cantata, before reappearing as a church cantata for the first Sunday of Advent - he later readapted it for another secular occasion. Bach's Magnificat stands as one of his monumental works: he wrote it for Christmas Vespers in Leipzig in 1723, a joyous setting of Mary's song of praise on hearing that she is to give birth to the Christ.

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