Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248: “Break forth, O beauteous, heavenly light”

~ Song

Relationships

additional lyricist:Fred Pratt Green
lyricist:Johann von Rist (in 1641)
composer:Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician)
Johann Schop
translator:John Troutbeck (clergyman and translator) (in 1885)
translated version of:Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248: Teil II, XII. Choral „Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht“

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1958-12Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, sung in English: “And there were shepherds in the same country, abiding in the field”Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Anthony Seddon, Robert Tear, Simon Preston, Sir David Willcocks3:18
Break Forth o Beauteous Heavenly LightThe Ambrosian Singers, John McCarthy4:18
Break Forth O Beauteous Heavenly LightSufjan Stevens1:09
Break Forth O Beauteous Shining LightThe Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford, Grayston Ives1:37
Break forth, O beauteous heavenly lightChoir of St Mary’s, Fishponds1:25
Break Forth, o Beauteous Heavenly LightLuke Brindley1:40
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly LightRebecca Kleintop Owens1:12
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly LightinstrumentalJ.S. Bach, arr. Carolyn Surrick1:08
Break Forth, O Beauteous Heavenly Light (Christmas Oratorio)Mormon Tabernacle Choir1:44
Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly LightVirginia Girls Choir, Ana Hernández2:39
Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heavenly LightMadeline MacNeil1:03
Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, Sung in English: And there were shepherds....ChoraleChoir of King’s College, Cambridge, Nigel Rogers, Hugh McLean, Boris Ord3:23