Johann Sebastian Bach

The Easter Oratorio (BWV 249), is an oratorio by Johann Sebastian Bach, Kommt, eilet und laufet (Come, hasten and run), first performed in Leipzig in 1725. The first version of the work was completed as a cantata for Easter Sunday in Leipzig on April 1, 1725, then under the title Kommt, gehet und eilet. It was named "oratorio" and given the new title only in a version revised in 1735.

The "Easter Oratorio" (different from the "Christmas Oratorio") has no narrator but four characters assigned to the four voice parts: Simon Peter (tenor) and John the Apostle (bass), appearing in the first duet hurrying to Jesus' grave and finding it empty, meeting there Mary Magdalene (alto) and "the other Mary", Mary Jacobe (soprano).

The second Aria (Mvt. 5) "Seele, deine Spezereien" (My Soul, Your Spices), was originally written for solo Soprano & period instruments, I created this arrangement for Woodwind Trio (Flute, Oboe and Bassoon).