On This Day – 25 December

#OTD in 1713 The first probable performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Christen, ätzet diesen Tag’ BWV 63 – performed by Collegium Vocale Gent dir. Philippe Herreweghe

#OTD in 1723 The first performance of #Bach’s #Magnificat in E flat with Christmas Interpolations, BWV 243a

#OTD in 1723 The first probable performance of #Bach’s #Sanctus in D major, BWV 238 – performed by Netherlands Bach Society

#OTD in 1724 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ’ BWV 91 – performed by Collegium Vocale Gent dir. Philippe Herreweghe

#OTD in 1725 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Unser Mund sei voll Lachens’ BWV 110 – performed by the Netherlands Bach Society

#OTD in 1726 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt’ BWV 151 – performed by Ricercar Consort Orchestra dir. Philippe Pierlot

#OTD in 1734 The first performance of #Bach’s #Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248, Part 1 – performed by Netherlands Bach Society

#OTD in 1742 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Gloria in excelsis Deo’ BWV 191 – performed by Netherlands Bach

Society https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zkx1vgl7RbU

#HappyBirthday to Orlando Gibbons born #OTD in 1583 – O clap your hands – the Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

#HappyBirthday to Giovanni Battista #Somis born #OTD in 1686 – Recorder Sonata in F Major – performed by Hanneke van Proosdij and Voices Of Music

#HappyBirthday to Jean-Joseph de #Mondonville born #OTD in 1711 – Coeli enarrant gloriam Dei – performed by Choeur & Orchestre Marguerite Louise dir. Gaétan Jarry

#HappyBirthday to Johann Adam #Hiller born #OTD in 1728 – Jauchzet Dem Herrn, Alle Welt (c.1781) – performed by Veronika Winter (soprano) with the Stuttgart Hymnus Boys Choir & HandeI’s Company

#HappyBirthday to Joseph Boulogne #Chevalier de Saint-Georges born #OTD in 1745

#HappyBirthday to Patrick #Gilmore born #OTD in 1829 – “When Johnny Comes Marching Home” performed by the United States Military Academy Band