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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780769775975 Format: Classical, Color, NTSC ISBN: 0769775977 Label: Kultur Video Manufacturer: Kultur Video Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: Kultur Video Release Date: October 14, 2003 Sales Rank: 120780 Studio: Kultur Video
Description: Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Concentus Musicus of Vienna, along with the Arnold Schoenberg in this celebration of the coming of Christmas, through the extraordinary music of Johann Sebastian Bach.
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This DVD is one I play all year round, not just at Advent: but particularly during that time, when meditation and comtemplation of the ever-renewed miracle of Christmas should be on one's mind, this music and these performers will help keep the commercial clamor at bay. The selection of Bach's specifically seasonal music, including the Magnificat, is wonderfully balanced. Harnoncourt's commitment to this music is informed by his spirituality as much as by his artistic genius. The Schoeberg Choir and the Concentus Musicus Wien are consistently exellent, and the soloists are sublime. Ian Bostridge's ... Read More
