The Gospolitans invite you to an evening full of reflection and joy. Christmas songs, gospel and pop merge into a unique experience that touches the heart and makes the magic of Christmas tangible.
Keywords: Jazz & World, Vocal Music
| Gospolitans | |
| Claus Canstein | Piano |
| Yogi Jockusch | Percussion |
| Sörin Bergmann | Director |
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Christmas is a time to find peace and to listen. To hear what is important in life. Christmas is full of traditions that connect people across age boundaries and link the present with the past. Singer Helene Blum and violinist Harald Haugaard bring the special atmosphere of the Nordic winter into the concert hall. Their programme »Nordic Christmas« celebrates this auspicious time with authentic and lovingly selected pieces and stories. The Danish musicians and their changing guests skilfully tell of the little moments, and between the notes the audience sees the tracks in the snow, hears the goblins giggling and the reindeer rattling. Time seems to stand still – until the next drum roll sounds and a lively dance begins...
It goes without saying that The Concertgebouw and jazz & pop music make a perfect combination. The stages of both the Main Hall and the Recital Hall have borne witness to nearly the whole of jazz history. Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald have both performed here, as have Miles Davis and Louis Armstrong. Famous pop stars and bands that have graced the stage of the Main Hall include Frank Zappa, the Doors and the Eagles, to name but a few. Legendary concerts, in the present as well as the past.
Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's magnificent Christmas Oratorio! To the thunder of timpani and jubilant trumpets, it is proclaimed in the magnificent opening that Jesus is born.It's easy to be misled by the title Christmas Oratorio, as if it were a single work intended to be performed at one occasion, Christmas Eve. That's far from the case. In fact, the Christmas Oratorio consists of six different parts, intended to be performed at as many occasions around Christmas. Today, as in this concert, it's customary to perform the first three parts, which were first performed together at a concert in Leipzig, in the days around Christmas 1735.Delving into Bach's music is to venture into an unfathomable and fascinating musical universe. We constantly discover new things, and it never ends. Spend a few hours with Bach's Christmas Oratorio. It's a magnificent experience.The Italian baroque specialist and conductor Luca Guglielmi leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir, and the four soloists. Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir, formed in 1945, ranks among the top international professional ensembles. Since 2003, the choir has had a close collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
Experience Johann Sebastian Bach's magnificent Christmas Oratorio! To the thunder of timpani and jubilant trumpets, it is proclaimed in the magnificent opening that Jesus is born.It's easy to be misled by the title Christmas Oratorio, as if it were a single work intended to be performed at one occasion, Christmas Eve. That's far from the case. In fact, the Christmas Oratorio consists of six different parts, intended to be performed at as many occasions around Christmas. Today, as in this concert, it's customary to perform the first three parts, which were first performed together at a concert in Leipzig, in the days around Christmas 1735.Delving into Bach's music is to venture into an unfathomable and fascinating musical universe. We constantly discover new things, and it never ends. Spend a few hours with Bach's Christmas Oratorio. It's a magnificent experience.The Italian baroque specialist and conductor Luca Guglielmi leads the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir, and the four soloists. Eric Ericson's Chamber Choir, formed in 1945, ranks among the top international professional ensembles. Since 2003, the choir has had a close collaboration with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
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.
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.
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the Christmas Oratorio. And the Bach Society is also celebrating the birth of Jesus with this brilliant work.Right from the opening notes the Christmas festivities get going“Lars Ulrik Mortensen – artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen – is leading the ensemble from the organ in cantatas 1, 4, 5 and 6 from Bach’s great Christmas work. These cantatas tell the story of the proclamation of the birth of Jesus, his christening and the three wise men from the East who follow the star of Bethlehem to get to the infant Jesus. Right from the opening notes – the characteristic drumbeats of cantata 1 – the Christmas festivities get going: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage! And the party spirit is completed by the expressive and flamboyant Mortensen.
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the Christmas Oratorio. And the Bach Society is also celebrating the birth of Jesus with this brilliant work.Right from the opening notes the Christmas festivities get going“Lars Ulrik Mortensen – artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen – is leading the ensemble from the organ in cantatas 1, 4, 5 and 6 from Bach’s great Christmas work. These cantatas tell the story of the proclamation of the birth of Jesus, his christening and the three wise men from the East who follow the star of Bethlehem to get to the infant Jesus. Right from the opening notes – the characteristic drumbeats of cantata 1 – the Christmas festivities get going: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage! And the party spirit is completed by the expressive and flamboyant Mortensen.
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the Christmas Oratorio. And the Bach Society is also celebrating the birth of Jesus with this brilliant work.Right from the opening notes the Christmas festivities get going“Lars Ulrik Mortensen – artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen – is leading the ensemble from the organ in cantatas 1, 4, 5 and 6 from Bach’s great Christmas work. These cantatas tell the story of the proclamation of the birth of Jesus, his christening and the three wise men from the East who follow the star of Bethlehem to get to the infant Jesus. Right from the opening notes – the characteristic drumbeats of cantata 1 – the Christmas festivities get going: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage! And the party spirit is completed by the expressive and flamboyant Mortensen.
It wouldn’t be Christmas without the Christmas Oratorio. And the Bach Society is also celebrating the birth of Jesus with this brilliant work.Right from the opening notes the Christmas festivities get going“Lars Ulrik Mortensen – artistic director of Concerto Copenhagen – is leading the ensemble from the organ in cantatas 1, 4, 5 and 6 from Bach’s great Christmas work. These cantatas tell the story of the proclamation of the birth of Jesus, his christening and the three wise men from the East who follow the star of Bethlehem to get to the infant Jesus. Right from the opening notes – the characteristic drumbeats of cantata 1 – the Christmas festivities get going: Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage! And the party spirit is completed by the expressive and flamboyant Mortensen.
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