On This Day – 27 December

#OTD in 1723 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Sehet, welch eine Liebe hat uns der Vater erzeiget’ BWV 64 – performed by Concerto Copenhagen

#OTD in 1724 The first performance of #Bach’s Cantata ‘Ich freue mich in dir’ BWV 133 – performed by Concerto Copenhagen

#OTD in 1734 The first performance of #Bach’s #Weihnachtsoratorium BWV 248, Part 3 – Performed by the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra & Soloists

#OTD in 1919 The first performance of #Fauré’s Mirages, Op.113 – Performed by Gérard Souzay (baritone) and Dalton Baldwin (piano)

#OTD in 1858 the death of Alexandre Pierre François #Boëly – Andante con moto, performed by Pablo Marquez at the Basilica of Saint Nicholas, Amsterdam