BACH CHRISTMAS ORATORIO THIS ADVENT AT ST MARTIN-IN-THE-FIELDS

The London Bach Singers and Feinstein Ensemble perform Bach’s 'Christmas Oratorio' at St Martin-in-the-Fields on Saturday 27 November, 7.30pm in the final concert of the Feinstein Ensemble’s annual Bach Cantata Series.The Christmas Oratorio has been a popular favourite for concert audiences and church-goers for centuries. Bach's great masterpiece, composed during the Leipzig period toward the end of his life, which also produced the B Minor Mass and some 300 cantatas, tells the story of Christ's birth using traditional passages from the Gospels interspersed with arias and choruses which