CoCo's Christmas Concerts 2025

CoCo's Christmas Concerts 2025: Bach Cantatas for Christmas with European star soloists

Concerto Copenhagen invites you to a Christmas concert featuring some of the most festive and magnificent music of the Baroque era. Together with four outstanding soloists from Europe's top shelves, the orchestra performs three of Johann Sebastian Bach's wonderful cantatas written for the Christmas season.

It will be a musical celebration full of warmth, color and the special richness of Baroque sound - with natural horns, recorders, timpani and oboes on stage. Behind the harpsichord is, as always, Concerto Copenhagen's artistic director Lars Ulrik Mortensen.

The concert's three cantatas range from the solemn to the jubilant:

• BWV 91: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ - with strings, three oboes, two horns and continuo
• BWV 122: Das neugeborne Kindelein - with strings, recorders, oboes and waist
• BWV 65: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen - with baroque flutes, oboe da caccia, horn and continuo

Soloists:
Hana Blažíková - soprano
Terry Wey - countertenor
Jonathan Hanley - tenor
Tomas Kral - bass

Duration: approx. 75 minutes without a break