Guest performance Christmas Concert

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Christmas Concert

Elsa Benoit, photo: James Bellorini Christmas motifs have been written into numerous pages of Western classical music, and not only on the occasion of the festivities that open the carnival season. In the second movement of George Frideric Handel’s Concerto a due cori, one can easily recognise an excerpt of the joyful, punctuated rhythm of the chorus Lift up your heads from the Messiah’s second movement, which tells the story of the life, death and resurrection of Christ. Johann Sebastian Bach, fulfilling the demands of the Protestant liturgical calendar by the sweat of his brow, wrote many works for the Christmas season. In so doing, he also drew inspiration from Italian musicians, including the composer of the famous ‘Christmas Eve’ Concerto Grosso in G minor, Arcangelo Corelli. Bach’s showstopping solo cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen suited a variety of festive occasions due to its universal, laudatory text. Its virtuosic coloratura parts require soprano and trumpet soloists of the highest calibre. Christmas themes can also be found in the text of the Credo. One of the most beautiful passages in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor – not without reason referred to as the ‘Great’ – is the expansive, mellifluous aria ‘Et incarnatus est’ from the Credo. Mozart wrote it with his vocally gifted wife Constanze in mind, just as years before he had penned the showstopping motet ‘Exsultate, jubilate’ for the famous Italian soprano Venanzio Rauzzini.

Christmas Concert

Elsa Benoit, photo: James Bellorini Christmas motifs have been written into numerous pages of Western classical music, and not only on the occasion of the festivities that open the carnival season. In the second movement of George Frideric Handel’s Concerto a due cori, one can easily recognise an excerpt from the first part of The Messiah, devoted to the Old Testament announcements of Christ’s coming. Johann Sebastian Bach, fulfilling the demands of the Protestant liturgical calendar by the sweat of his brow, wrote many works for the Christmas season. In so doing, he also drew inspiration from Italian musicians, including the composer of the famous ‘Christmas Eve’ Concerto Grosso in G minor, Arcangelo Corelli. Bach’s showstopping solo cantata Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen suited a variety of festive occasions due to its universal, laudatory text. Its virtuosic coloratura parts require soprano and trumpet soloists of the highest calibre. Christmas themes can also be found in the text of the Credo. One of the most beautiful passages in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Mass in C minor – not without reason referred to as the ‘Great’ – is the expansive, mellifluous aria ‘Et incarnatus est’ from the Credo. Mozart wrote it with his vocally gifted wife Constanze in mind, just as years before he had penned the showstopping motet ‘Exsultate, jubilate’ for the famous Italian soprano Venanzio Rauzzini.

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Festive Christmas Concert

Four choirs come togeather in this festive Christmas concert with the HansePhilharmonie Hamburg. Under the baton of Mike Steurenthaler, they perform a programme that is as festive as it is contemplative in the Laeiszhalle Grand Hall.

Christmas concert: "Fantasia on Christmas Carols"

This year, the traditional Advent concert on the fourth Sunday of Advent will enchant you with an absolute highlight in one of Berlin's most beautiful churches: the Magaliesberg Children's Choir South Africa will support the Junge Chor of the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Kammersymphonie Berlin at the annual musical festival for the whole family. Take a moment to pause and reflect, away from the Christmas hustle and bustle. Let yourself be inspired by the puristic motto of the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, who collected old southern English folk songs for his 1912 work ‘Fantasia on Christmas Carols’: ‘The most beautiful occupation is that with the human voice and some of the best melodies in the world.’ Listen to works by Michael Praetorius, George Frederic Handel, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Sir David Valentine Willcocks and others. Experience a wonderful prelude to Christmas in the Apostel-Paulus-Kirche in Berlin.

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