{"id":3286,"date":"2015-12-21T08:00:26","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T07:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.henle.de\/blog\/en\/?p=3286"},"modified":"2016-01-11T12:07:18","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T11:07:18","slug":"christmas-blog-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2015\/12\/21\/christmas-blog-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader,<\/p>\n<p>we most warmly thank you for your interest in the Henle Blog. We also look forward to your visits in the coming year and promise interesting postings on musical questions concerning music texts.<!--more--><br \/>\nAs in 2013 we would like to draw your attention to a recording of the Christmas oratorio, but this time not to the famous one by Johann Sebastian Bach, but rather to the oratorio composed by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns. The French composer\u00a0wrote his <em>Oratorio de No\u00ebl<\/em> within only 12 days in December 1858 for a performance in the famous Madeleine Church in Paris where he had been employed as an organist since the beginning of that year. It is a simple, very melodious work that shows how close musically the church sphere then stood\u00a0to the\u00a0opera stage in Paris.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CLzOaUu4VrA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Record: 1976<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_3289\" style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2015\/12\/220px-Christuskirche_mainz_aus_west.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3289\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3289\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/files\/2015\/12\/220px-Christuskirche_mainz_aus_west.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3289\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christ Church Mainz\/Germany<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Label: Profil (H\u00e4nssler)<br \/>\nVenue: Christ Church Mainz\/Germany<br \/>\nVerena Schweizer, soprano<br \/>\nEdith Wiens, soprano<br \/>\nHelena Jungwirth, alto<br \/>\nFriedreich Melzer, Tenor<br \/>\nKurt Widmer, bass<br \/>\nHans-Joachim Bartsch, organ<br \/>\nBarbara Biermann, harp<br \/>\nMainz Bach Choir<br \/>\nMainz Bach Collegium<br \/>\nConductor: Diethard Hellmann<\/p>\n<p>We wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Your authors of the Henle Blog<\/p>\n<p><em>Norbert Gertsch<br \/>\nPeter Jost<br \/>\nNorbert M\u00fcllemann<br \/>\nAnnette Oppermann<br \/>\nDominik Rahmer<br \/>\nWolf-Dieter Seiffert<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Reader, we most warmly thank you for your interest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/2015\/12\/21\/christmas-blog-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,504],"tags":[503,82],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.henle.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}