Adventskonzert Sir John Eliot Gardiner & The Constellation Choir | Weihnachtliche Kantaten von Johann Sebastian Bach

In the organizer's words:

With a festive program beyond the Christmas Oratorio, this concert invites you to a top-class Advent evening presented by Sir John Eliot Gardiner with his new ensembles, The Constellation Choir & Orchestra, following the end of his collaboration with the Monteverdi Choir. The focus is on two cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach. Gardiner describes the cantata "Schwingt freudig euch empor", composed for 1st Advent 1731, as "capricious, lightly paced and deeply satisfying once all the technical demands that make up its virtuosity have been mastered: those tricky runs, variations and chromatic intervals in all the voices and the chains of triplet figurations in the oboes d'amore and first violins playing in unison". The second part of the concert features "Unser Mund sei voll Lachens", a cantata composed for Christmas Day, which musically reflects the joyful character of Christmas.

• Participants
  • The Constellation Choir
  • The Constellation Orchestra
  • Sir John Eliot Gardiner Conductor
  • Marie Luise Werneburg Soprano
  • Eline Welle mezzo-soprano
  • Peter Davoren Tenor
  • Alexander Ashworth Baritone
  • Program
    • Marc-Antoine Charpentier Messe de Minuit pour Noël
    • Johann Sebastian Bach "Schwingt freudig euch empor" Cantata BWV 36
    • Johann Sebastian Bach "Let our mouth be full of laughter" Cantata BWV 110