0:07 Jauchzet, frohlocket (Chor) 7:38 Es begab sich aber zu der Zeit (Rezitativ) 8:58 Nun wird mein liebster Bräutigam (Rezitativ) 9:51 Bereite dich, Zion (Arie) 14:51 Wie soll ich dich empfangen (Choral) 16:00 Und sie gebar ihren ersten Sohn (Rezitativ) 16:23 Er ist auf Erden kommen arm (Rezitativ) 19:35 Großer Herr, o starker König (Arie) 24:20 Ach mein herzliebes Jesulein (Choral)

I am living in the Netherlands and I am able to attend all the beautiful concerts of the Nederlandse Bachvereniging. Lucky me!

Are you going to record a complete version of the christmas oratorio? You guys are literally the best ensemble in the world for playing Bach.

Glorious :) Also - many thanks for well translated and explained subtitles that help those of us that don't understand German well.

Thank you God for Bach. Thank you God for people like these who have devoted their lives to performing Bach. Our lives are simply better for both.

Bach is surely smiling in Heaven listening to this exhilarating performance

It's Netherlands Bach Society when you click the like button before even listening to the music 🤩

Acho que todas a obras de Bach antes de começar, era precedida por oração e todas DEUS o abençoava. Amem.

Of course, Shunske Sato is an amazing violinist. But I’m totally taken with his beautiful, bright, wide open, and joyful direction here. You can see that he and the musicians are utterly connected. Stunning and inspired all around!

Listening from Tanzania 🇹🇿 Bach my favorite composer the GOAT, Netherlands Bach Society, you're the best🎉

Thank you. I could not live without a regular dose of NBS Bach. Best thing on KZfaq.

Wundervolle Aufführung ! Bach ist wie Heimkommen ! Vielen Dank !

Mr Sato's smile is priceless ! We can feel the joy through the music. It's wonderful. Thanks for this gift ! Bach forever !

Welch großartige Aufnahme ❤. Die Freude an dieser wunderbaren Musik ist in jedem Musikergesicht zu sehen und viel mehr noch, zu hören! Eine große Freude es hier zu finden. Danke!

Beautiful. And a joy to watch Sato's conducting.

Pure joy! Van ❤ bedankt - for all of these wonderful experiences through the years! 🥹

There is Joy in this music. The players and chorus alike are so enjoying each other’s performances. We see it and we feel it, even via KZfaq. To have actually been present when this was music being created would have been ‘a never to be forgotten’ experience of a life time. Such is the power of Bach 290 years later. Praise be to God amidst the horrendous acts of violence unfolding each and every day.

Terrible éclat de joie et d’émotion! Quelle musicalité, quelles voix, et ces visages si radieux…. Merci infiniment 🧡

What a wonderful performance! I love Netherlands Bach Society. You guys are the best. Life became so much fuller with you guys. Thank you and happy holidays and wish everyone healthy and happy and prosperous year of 2024!

To have the level of dedication and discipline and still to hold such observable joy, Sato is a remarkable human.

Que c’est beau, quel enthousiasme des musiciens. 👏 Sublime interprétation ❤️

Wat waanzinnig mooi gedaan!

I literally started watching all of the cantatas because I had this chorale in my head and couldn't place it. Monumental.

Bach gives us hope for humanity !!

This performance blows the mind clean of all earthly clutter!!! Must be the best performance of NBS that I have seen so far! Bach in Heaven was tapping his foot to this. In my next life I will sing with the NBS, for now I can listen. Thanks for making such music, we need it desperately to soothe our sick world.

YOU ARE THE VERY BEST OF THE WHOLE WORLD , NO KIDDING! I AM MOVED AND SHATTERED TO MY BONES FROM DEEEEEEP GRATEFULNESS FOR YOUR ENORMOUS MASTERY OF AND DEEP RESPEKT FOR BACH' S GREATEST JEWEL OF JUBILEE AND JOY!!! GOSH, PEOPLE, YOU HAVE NO IDEA OF HOW MUCH I APPRECIATE AND VENERATE AND LOVE YOU. EVERY SINGLE PERSON IS GIVING THEIR 100% , AUTHENTICALLY , PIOUSLY , JOYFULLY ☺️ ONE CAN ALSO FEEL THAT YOU HAVE HARMONY ON AN INTERPERSONAL LEVEL WITH EACH OTHER, NO COMPETITION WHATSOEVER , BUT ONLY JOY AND LOVE ARE BEAMING FROM YOU TO US AND OPEN OUR HEARTS ❤ YOU ARE SO MIRACULOUSLY CONTAGIOUS , THAAAANK YOU FOR THE GIFT YOU ARE AND THE GIFT YOU GIVE !!! ❤🙏💐🙏❤️

Helm's ornaments in "Großer Herr," are so precisely executed that it reminds me of a figure skater entering a triple axel jump and then landing it with the greatest of ease.... absolutely inspiring.

Goosebumps. Brilliant is an understatement. Especially 19:35 Großer Herr, o starker König. How trumpets interact with the violins... and his impressive voice. WOW! Never heard this so beautiful! Many many thanks! 🙏

Bach is no doubt listening and present, adding to the awe of this transcendent performance. How wonderful that his memory lives on and is celebrated with enduring passion.

The NBS is simply State-of-the-Art. Wonderful.

Bach will slake and moisturize the dryness of the soul

Heaven meets Earth. This is like never heard before. I am completely stunned. It made me cry tears of joy. Sato is a. pure Magician. More please for a real Merry Christmas 🎄. Thank you all. You opened Heaven for us!

There are simply no words for such a performance .... superb, amazing, touching, radiant, ... and even not enough! Thank you to NBS!!!!!

i've probably said this before but for me these performances are near-definitive for most of the works I have encountered on this wonderful channel - some of the singers are just utterly perfect Bachians.Matthias Helm does wonderful things in Grosser Herr (and has a most unusual articulated trill technique I actually really love)

Great performance! And what wonderful alto!

D’habitude, j’ose le dire, cet oratorio m’ennuie et j’évite d’entendre une vieille routine du pourtant immentissime JS.Bach. Là, miracle, un oratorio vif, fringant, une interprétation d’un collectif exceptionnel où la connivence est palpable ! Ouf! L’oratorio sort de son long hiver. Merci Nederlands Bach Society !

素晴らしい歌&演奏をありがとうございます!みなさんの表情、笑顔も素敵で贅沢な音のハーモニーですね！

Clarity, lightness, body. The listener never fears for the performers and the work is uplifted for it. A half century of scholarship and instrumental development over the best efforts of the 1970s is so clearly heard here. The engineering is invisibly at the service of a recording for the ages.

I'll miss seeing Shunske Sato in these videos. The Netherlands Bach Society has been a wonderful staple on KZfaq and I've greatly appreciated their work under Sato's leadership. I hope the next director has the same commitment and keeps producing these wonderful videos.

Incredible! Wonderful soloists!

So glorious! So beautifully interpreted!

So splendid in every way!

❤ Magistral interpretación de esta obra cumbre de la música universal 🌺🇮🇱🇩🇪🇨🇴😊BACH vive!!!

Happy to hear this by Bach society netherlands

Thank you. I was just waiting for this to be my new favourite version of Christmas oratorio. Now i’m fully happy :)

Торжественная, энергичная, светлая музыка от любимиго Bach. С Рождеством!

This has become a yearly ritual for me. Thanks for uploading this uplifting and beautiful work of Bach! This is how Christmas should actually feel like, when someone walks through the city, at least for adults. I guess it's too complicated for most kids and teenagers, but boy this fills me with joy, in an age where presents and such don't have such impact anymore.

Fantastic! The music dances ...

¡Maravilloso!. The best way to celebrate and go into Christmas. ¡Bravo!

Magnifique interprétation, dans un tempo que j'apprécie,prises de vue remarquables, le son est parfait. Et que dire des musiciens et chanteurs: la perfection avec le plaisir et l'engagement dans le texte de Bach. Bravissimo !

How soul moving, uplifting beauty of músic AND voices...thank you for this great, great gift of Joy! Good to see Meister Sato, as always, Splendid!

Everyone on this recording is superb, but I have to say Ulrike Malotta is truly exceptional in "Bereite dich, Zion". The best rendition of this aria I have ever heard. It gives me chills.

Zo mooi! En de vreugde die iedereen uitstraalt gaat zo naar mijn hart!

Genial interpretación de esta maravillosa obra del compositor Juan Sebastian Bach!!! Felicitaciones al director!!!!

What an incredible, brilliant, inspired performance of this joyful masterpiece. Thank you!!!

Tout ceci est merveilleux et grandiose ! Merci merci merci !

What a great performance of this masterpiece. The music, the voices, the whole atmosphere. It’s just perfect. And I especially love this beautiful alto voice with its warm timbre ♥️ Thank you for this Christmas present 2023! Merry Christmas everyone 🎄

Wonderful! Dank u well!! Love the tempo...the joy!!

This is a glimpse of what Heaven will be like - Soli Deo Gloria

Sublime in every way. The lights and photography enhance the experience. Bless you all!

As always, music of the highest order, thank you..

Thank you so much for such an enjoyable and accomplished performance -wonderful!

What a wonderful Christmas present. A heartfelt "thank you" to all of the musicians! It is such a joy to watch you and to listen to you.

Goosebumps!

Isso é terrivelmente bom! A interpretação, os instrumentos, a afinação, e a gravação do áudio, todas de altíssima qualidade! Agradeço a NBS! ❤

Impresionante nivel: el maestero Sato, los solistas, todos...

Daniel Johannsen superb evangelist! And precise trumpets, even those are very difficult to play.

The ensemble of the angels❤thanks

What a wonderful, uplifting performance of this masterwork! It has been a favourite of mine for the last 47 years, and I've enjoyed listening to many versions over that time. This offering ranks amongst the top for its spirit and musicality. It's great to have the English subtitles for the libretto, as well. I look forward to hearing the remaining five cantatas from the Netherlands Bach Society.

Muy buena interpretacion

interpretazione davvero sublime con grnde attenzione al senso dei testi di questa prima cantata dell'Oratorio di Natale!

What a happy music this is! Look at players! They are overflowing with a joy❢ Condecter, Shunsuke Sato,too❢

Lebhafte und wunderschöne Aufführung dieses perfekt komponierten Oratoriums mit gut harmonisierten Stimmen des ausgezeichneten Chors und herrlichen Stimmen vierer genialen Solisten sowie gut vereinigten und perfekt entsprechenden Tönen aller Originalinstrumente. Der intelligente und unvergleichliche Violinist-Dirigent leitet das ebenso ausgezeichnete Barockorchester im gut analysierten Tempo und mit künstlerisch kontrollierter Dynamik. Alles ist wunderbar und frohe Weihnachten für alle!

Absolutely sublime! ❤

Thank you! Great musicality and sound of the whole ensemble. Wonderful soloists and I love to hear Ulrike Malottas gorgeous voice and phrasing in your recording.

El mejor regalo de Navidad!!! Gracias por esta obra tan bella...

I can't stand this giant Beauty... i'm crying naw🙏😱🙏,.. celestial experience 🙏🙏🙏🙏

Que interpretação intensa! Simplesmente espetacular. Ótimo presente de Natal. Muito obrigado!👏👏👏👏👏🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹

Danke sehr passend zu unserer Zeit Noch einmal herzlicher Dank!

A wonderful performance Thank you NBS🎄

You are doing real Jauchzet guys! All of you are so happy and full of power. It's so good to watch it.Thank you all!

Y con que gusto lo interpretan: magníficos!!!

Just astonishing!

A wonderful, professional performance of Bach. Local lighting. Open aperture. Moving camera in horizontal motion. Light sensitive camera. Wonderful, congratulations!

Classical music, a magnetic force that draws us into a world of grace, where the harmonies linger and the echoes of emotion resonate eternally. 🌌🎹

A performance of Bach full of nuances that fill the soul!! Thank you for this masterpiece!!!👏👏👏👏

Deus seja louvado em Cristo e através de Bach para sempre!

Fan-Tastic! Thanks!!

Allways, wonderful!!❤❤

👏👏👏👏👏and a huge BRAVO from Croatia.🙂

크리스마스가 더욱 더 기다려지는 멋진 공연 감사합니다. (Thank you for woderful performance make me waiting Christmas even more delightfully.)

Superbe !

Really nice to see Sato actually conducting now. Really good performance too.

Thank you for the translation!

thank you very much. Bach is Christmas for me and many. We need it.

Wow! Thank you!!

Extraordinary! Merry Christmas from Denver!

Bravissimo!

Bravo! Wonderful!

If Bach were to be reborn, it would be in the Netherlands. Thanks for this stunning performance. Gefeliciteerd!