Choral Tradition 3/7/2010

There's so much great music for or about the Christmas season and there's never enough time to play more than a fraction of it during the season... so this week we're either "celebrating" Christmas a bit late... or a lot early! You'll hear performances of Bach's Cantata No.110 and his Magnificat (BWV 243). Also: a couple of short selections by Kansas City-based vocal octet "Octarium", anticipating their concert at Drury Stone Chapel on Friday 3/12.

BACH: Cantata BWV 110, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens (Bach Collegium Japan/Masaaki Suzuki) (22:36) CD TITLE: "J.S. Bach--Cantatas" (Vol.43) (BIS SACD-1761)

BACH: Magnificat, BWV 243 (Bach Choir of Bethlehem [PA]/Greg Funfgeld) (27:11) CD TITLE: "Bach/Vivaldi--The Bach Choir of Bethlehem" (Analekta AN2-9873)

Antonio LOTTI: Sanctus from "Simple Mass" (1:06); MANUEL: Alleluia (4:00) (Octarium/Krista Lang Blackwood) CD TITLE: "Octarium: Essentials" (see www.octarium.org/essentials.html)