Praise the days
Christmas Oratorio with Chamber Choir and University Orchestra conducted by Ton Koopman
All six cantatas of the Christmas Oratorio on the same evening, and under the direction of a world-renowned Bach expert: The University of Music FRANZ LISZT Weimar considers itself fortunate to be able to perform Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio BWV 248 twice.
The chamber choir and university orchestra will perform the popular work under the direction of Ton Koopman on Saturday, 26 November at 6:00 pm in the Weimar City Church of St. Peter and Paul and on Sunday, 27 November at 6:00 pm in the Johann Sebastian Bach Church in Arnstadt.
Soloists will be students of the Department of Singing and Music Theatre at the Weimar University of Music.
Tickets for Weimar are available at 30, 20, 10 euros (reduced tickets: reduced by 5 euros each), tickets for Arnstadt cost 30 euros, reduced 20 euros. They are available in advance at the tourist information offices in Weimar and Arnstadt and at the box offices.
The good spirit of the Bach family lives on to this day in many places in Thuringia, in Eisenach, Arnstadt, Ohrdruf, Mühlhausen - and not least in Weimar. Johann Sebastian Bach lived and worked here from 1708 to 1717, six of his children were born here, and it is here that the Christmas Oratorio will now be heard on the eve of the 1st Advent in the 150th anniversary year of the Weimar Academy of Music. The concert will be repeated on 1 Advent in Arnstadt, where Bach once held his first organist post.
This is not the first time that Bach expert Ton Koopman, who has recorded the entire secular and sacred cantata oeuvre on 67 CDs with the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, will conduct the chamber choir and orchestra of the university.
Of course, he is also deeply familiar with the Christmas Oratorio, which Bach premiered with the St Thomas's Boys Choir during his years as Leipzig's Thomaskantor - and which, with its enchanting recitatives, arias, chorales and choruses, became his most popular sacred work.
Further information:www.hfm-weimar.de/150
[15 November 2022]