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 the Baroque era has to offer. Together with four outstanding soloists from Europe's top ranks, the orchestra will perform 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 unique richness of Baroque music, with natural horns, recorders, timpani, and oboes on stage. As always, Concerto Copenhagen's artistic director Lars Ulrik Mortensen will be at the harpsichord.

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 taille
• BWV 65: Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen – with baroque flutes, oboe da caccia, horns, and continuo

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

Duration: approx. 75 minutes without intermission