Celebrate the season with J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio! In this festive performance from Dresden’s stunning Frauenkirche, Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden, fulfilling a long-held dream to conduct the beloved work. Stream the full performance and more holiday programming: bit.ly/3Yn1cRv | Carnegie Hall

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is one of the true treasures of the sacred choral repertoire. It was in 1734 in Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church where the Oratorio was first performed and it is in the same church that Gotthold Schwarz, the seventeenth Thomaskantor (St. Thomas Church music director) brings the masterpiece once more to life with his elite boy’s choir, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, and Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester. Watch them perform the Part I of Bach’s Oratorio, “For the First Day of Christmas

Bach - Jauchzet, frohlocket! from Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 Shunske Sato, violin and direction Netherlands Bach Society @netherlands_bach_society | History of Music

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio shines with rhythmic lift and expressive clarity as John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras and English Baroque Soloists. Now available to stream free of charge at stage.plus/Oratorio. | STAGE