Bach - Cantata Christen, ätzet diesen Tag BWV 63 - Creed | Netherlands Bach Society

Bach’s large-scale cantata ’Christen, ätzet diesen Tag’, here performed by the Netherlands Bach Society conducted by Marcus Creed, includes four trumpets, three oboes and timpani. It was performed on Christmas Day 1723, in Leipzig, where Bach had been working for less than six months. So it was his first Christmas there. The cantata he performed was not new, but one he had brought with him from Weimar, where Bach had performed it around 1714/1715 for Advent. Recorded for the project All of Bach on December 13th 2018 at the Grote Kerk, Naarden. If you want to help us complete All of Bach, please subscribe to our channel and consider donating For more information on BWV 63 and this production go to All of Bach is a project of the Netherlands Bach Society / Nederlandse Bachvereniging, offering high-quality film recordings of the works by Johann Sebastian Bach, performed by the Netherlands Bach Socie