Global Concert Hall

About this event

This year, Early Music Vancouver's Festive Cantatas features some of the most popular Christmas music of Germany in the 18th century by Johann Kuhanu and J.S. Bach. 

Kuhnau was a cantor in the Thomaskirche of Leipzig before Bach, and in addition to being a remarkable composer, he was a lawyer and a linguist who wrote a satirical novel, Der musicalische Quacksalber (1700). Only recently has Kuhnau’s church music been given a bit of the attention it deserves. Kuhnau’s cantata Wie Schön leuchtet der Morgenstern (How brightly shines the morning star) is filled with moments of lyric beauty and expertly-rendered Italianate ritornelli echoed in the solo vocal lines. The quality of this work is an excellent argument for exploring more deeply the musical culture that preceded and influenced J.S. Bach. 

This cantata contains some of the earliest orchestral writing for natural horns, which may have inspired Bach to do the same in his cantata by the same name and in Cantata V of the Christmas Oratorio. The Christmas Oratorio was originally written as six cantatas for six different days between Christmas and the feast of Epiphany.

This stream is available to watch until December 22, 2022.

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Programme

• 1. Concert – approx. 70 min programme

Repertoire

1. 1. J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, Part V

2. 2. Johann Kuhnau: Cantata “Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern”

3. 3. J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 Part IV

The concert was filmed at The Chan Centre for the Performing Arts, Vancouver, Canada.