Northern Lights - Norwegian and German choral music

Once the Lights Are Lit

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Once the Lights Are Lit

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Once the Lights Are Lit

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Once the Lights Are Lit

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Once the Lights Are Lit

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Once the Lights Are Lit

There are some annoying traditions, and then there are those that really make an event complete. The Christmas concert of our Philharmonic Children's Choir undoubtedly belongs to the latter! Once again this year, they invite grandparents, parents, and especially all children to listen to familiar and lesser-known Christmas songs, and to sing along to some of them. After that, the celebration can begin...

Choral Music Concert

Warsaw Philharmonic Choir & Bartosz Michałowski, photo: Bartek Barczyk Works in one part or more, polyphonic and polychoral, religious and secular, in Latin and in French, a cappella and with instruments… It seems impossible to create a short definition of the term ‘motet’ that would take into account all the incarnations of the genre, from the Middle Ages to the present day. The term could indicate both the composition technique, typical of this type of work, and its language or function. It is also not easy to ascertain how many motets Johann Sebastian Bach wrote, not just because we do not know the exact number of his lost works, but also because of the ambiguous generic classification of his surviving legacy, with a chronology that is difficult to establish. They include at least seven works (mostly a due cori and without obbligato instrument parts) with a German text, which are numbered 225 to 230 and 1164 in Wolfgang Schmieder’s catalogue. They follow the tradition of seventeenth-century Protestant motets to biblical words and religious poetry. In Bach’s time, they were mostly performed at funerals – circumstances that did not (generally) allow for pomp and for following new fashions. They could also serve as didactic pieces. The motet Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, still sung after Bach’s death in St Thomas’s in Leipzig (to the delight of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart), for example, could have been used to work with Bach’s pupils.

Schubert's most beautiful choral and piano music

The Sunday Morning Concert brings you wonderful and much-loved compositions, performed by top musicians from the Netherlands and abroad. Enjoy the most beautiful music in the morning! You can make your Sunday complete by enjoying a delicious post-concert lunch in restaurant LIER.The Royal Concertgebouw is one of the best concert halls in the world, famous for its exceptional acoustics and varied programme. Attend a concert and have an experience you will never forget. Come and enjoy inspiring music in the beautiful surroundings of the Main Hall or the intimate Recital Hall.

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