{"id":1957,"date":"2013-03-28T14:59:04","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/?p=1957"},"modified":"2013-03-28T14:59:04","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:59:04","slug":"bachs-easter-oratorio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mondayministry.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/28\/bachs-easter-oratorio\/","title":{"rendered":"Bach\u2019s Easter Oratorio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3-29-13<\/p>\n<p>We listen to Handel\u2019s oratorio \u201cMessiah\u201d at Christmastime (even though the piece is about Christ from ancient prophecy through His Passion and Ascension to Heaven, and therefore is appropriate at any time of year). Less often do we listen to Bach\u2019s \u201cChristmas Oratorio\u2019; a shame, because it is stunningly grand and inspiring. <\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the facility of arranging background music when the Yule Log burns, or when trees are decorated, assists the popularity of \u201cMessiah.\u201d I suggest that ANY excuse is appropriate to listen to the two Passions of Johann Sebastian Bach \u2013 the St Matthew and the St John.<\/p>\n<p>I will suggest, and provide a link here, to the more modest (shorter) and unjustly obscure \u201cEaster Oratorio\u201d of Bach. But it is beautiful, moving, and masterful in its presentation of music, harmony, lush instrumentation, choral and solo movements. This version features original instruments, sometimes unfamiliar but fascinating to our ears, in the setting of a Baroque-period church.<\/p>\n<p>Originally written by Bach as a cantata for Easter Sunday, it is appropriately festive, because it begins with the empty tomb \u2013 its first title was \u201cCome, Hasten, and Run!\u201d In other words, share the news that Christ has risen! Mary, after all, was the first evangelist of them all, spreading the good news.<\/p>\n<p>He is risen! He is risen indeed!<\/p>\n<p>+ + +<\/p>\n<p>Click:  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch_popup?v=FYGNjdx4bb8#MondayMinistry_3-29-13\">Bach\u2019s Easter Oratorio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-29-13 We listen to Handel\u2019s oratorio \u201cMessiah\u201d at Christmastime (even though the piece is about Christ from ancient prophecy through His Passion and Ascension to Heaven, and therefore is appropriate at any time of year). Less often do we listen to Bach\u2019s \u201cChristmas Oratorio\u2019; a shame, because it is stunningly grand and inspiring. 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