Easter Oratorio

Album by Johann Sebastian Bach & Frans Brüggen & Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century

The Easter Oratorio is a sacred oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, composed and first performed in Leipzig in 1725. Musically it adopts a concise Baroque vocal-orchestral idiom—alternating recitatives, arias and choruses with bright orchestral colours and pastoral rhythms—and it forms part of Bach's Leipzig-era liturgical output, illustrating his practice of reworking secular music into church repertoire.

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  1. 1.
    Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35: Concerto
    6:07
  2. 2.
    Keyboard Concerto in F Minor, BWV 1056: II. Largo
    2:52
  3. 3.
    Geist und Seele wird verwirret, BWV 35: Sinfonia
    3:47
  4. 4.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Sinfonia
    4:09
  5. 5.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Adagio
    4:28
  6. 6.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Kommt, eilet und laufet (Chorus)
    4:53
  7. 7.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Recitative. O kalter Manner Sinn! (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass)
    1:00
  8. 8.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Aria. Seele, deine Spezereien (Soprano)
    12:09
  9. 9.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Recitative. Hier ist die Gruft (Alto, Tenor, Bass)
    0:39
  10. 10.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Aria. Sanfte soll mein Todeskummer (Tenor)
    8:02
  11. 11.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Recitative. Indessen seufzen wir (Soprano, Alto)
    0:54
  12. 12.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Aria. Saget, saget mit geschwinde (Soprano, Alto)
    6:26
  13. 13.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Recitative. Wir sind erfreut (Bass)
    0:34
  14. 14.
    Oster‐Oratorium, BWV 249: Preis und Dank (Chorus)
    2:44

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