Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras and the English Baroque Soloists in a radiant performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio. Now available to stream free of charge at stage.plus/Oratorio. | STAGE

Celebrate the season with J. S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio! In this festive performance from Dresden’s stunning Frauenkirche, Christian Thielemann leads the Staatskapelle Dresden, fulfilling a long-held dream to conduct the beloved work. Stream the full performance and more holiday programming: bit.ly/3Yn1cRv | Carnegie Hall

Bach’s Christmas Oratorio is one of the true treasures of the sacred choral repertoire. It was in 1734 in Leipzig’s St. Thomas Church where the Oratorio was first performed and it is in the same church that Gotthold Schwarz, the seventeenth Thomaskantor (St. Thomas Church music director) brings the masterpiece once more to life with his elite boy’s choir, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, and Leipzig’s Gewandhausorchester. Watch them perform the Part I of Bach’s Oratorio, “For the First Day of Christmas

724K views · 23K reactions | Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concentus Musicus Wien in a radiant Advent programme of Bach cantatas and the jubilant Magnificat, filmed at Austria’s Melk Abbey. Joined by Christine Schäfer, Ian Bostridge and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor, the performance glows with clarity and devotion. Now streaming at stage.plus/Christmas. | STAGE+ | Facebook