Performance on 3 - Bach at Christmas - Episode 1

A programme recorded at Hawksmoor's Christ Church as part of the 2008 Spitalfields Winter Festival. John Eliot Gardiner conducts The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists in an all-Bach programme, featuring one of the cantatas that make up the Christmas Oratorio, as well as one of the Motets and a Brandenburg Concerto. Bach: Motet - Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 229; Brandenburg Concerto No 6 in B flat, BWV 1051; Cantata No 1: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf preiset die Tage (Christmas Oratorio) Evangelist ...... Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) The Monteverdi Choir The English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) Plus highlights from the 2008 BBC Proms: Bach: Suite No 1 in G, BWV 1007 Jian Wang (cello) Bach: Vater unser im Himmelreich, BWV 682 Simon Preston (organ).