J.S. Bach: Christen, ätzet diesen Tag, BWV 63 - The Church Cantatas, Vol. 157

Cantata 63 ‘Christen, ätzet diesen Tag’ takes us back some ten years to a work written between 1713-1716 for Christmas Day, when Bach was employed as organist and concertmaster at the court of Weimar. It may even be that Bach composed this agile and radiant work for his application as organist of the Liebfrauenkirche in Halle. The cantata has an astonishing symmetry (chorus, recitative, duet, recitative, duet, recitative, chorus), in which the recitative No.4 forms the axis. The rising figure in the continuo illustrates the text ‘sein Bogen ist gespannt, das Schwert ist schon gewetzt’. Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach Artists: Netherlands Bach Collegium, Pieter Jan Leusink (conductor), Holland Boys Choir, Sytse Buwalda (Alto), Marjon Strijk (Soprano), Bas Ramselaar (Basso) & Nico van der Meel (Tenore) 🎵Online purchase or streaming (Spotify, iTunes, Amazon Music, Deezer): 🎬🎮 These tracks are available for sync licensing in videos, films, tv-shows, games,