Christmas Concert 2023 – sold out
Concerto Copenhagen invites you to a Christmas concert at Trinitatis Church, where the orchestra will present Christmas music from across Europe.
This year's Christmas concert embraces our many different traditions, as well as those we have in common. In many places around the world, we have always celebrated the winter solstice in our own unique ways. The Vikings 'drank Christmas', but today we celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, and one thing is almost always common across cultures: music.
Regardless of our histories, cultures, and rituals, music is a common denominator for us and part of the Christmas celebration. So, you can look forward to experiencing a bit of the festivities from all over Europe when singer Marlene Metzger, Concerto Copenhagen, and Lars Ulrik Mortensen take us on a Christmas journey through the Netherlands, England, France, Italy, Poland, Germany—and, of course, Denmark. Christian Geist was organist at Trinitatis Church from 1684 to 1686.
It is music that describes and interprets the messages of Christmas as we know them. The rural atmosphere with animals and shepherds around the stable where the baby Jesus was born. It is the story of the morning star – the star above Bethlehem, the new light in the world, which in a figurative sense is of course also the baby Jesus himself – the light and hope that has now been brought into the world, and how we are now moving towards brighter times. But it is also music that puts into words the feelings of Jesus' mother, the Virgin Mary. She can sense that the child she has given birth to is no ordinary child, and so she asks God for help with what is to come.
CoCo's Christmas Concert 2023 can be experienced twice on the same evening.
The first concert of the evening will take place in Trinitatis Church, where the church's space amplifies the message of Christmas. Later that evening, we will play a selection of the same works in a more intimate concert at Musikhuset in Copenhagen with candlelight and the opportunity to purchase a glass of wine before the concert.So join us as we welcome Christmas and brighter times, and wish each other a Merry Christmas with our loved ones. Read more about this concert here.
Concerto Copenhagen invites you to a Christmas concert at Trinitatis Church, where the orchestra will present Christmas music from across Europe.
This year's Christmas concert embraces our many different traditions, as well as those we have in common. In many places around the world, we have always celebrated the winter solstice in our own unique ways. The Vikings 'drank Christmas', but today we celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, and one thing is almost always common across cultures: music.
Regardless of our histories, cultures, and rituals, music is a common denominator for us and part of the Christmas celebration. So, you can look forward to experiencing a bit of the festivities from all over Europe when singer Marlene Metzger, Concerto Copenhagen, and Lars Ulrik Mortensen take us on a Christmas journey through the Netherlands, England, France, Italy, Poland, Germany—and, of course, Denmark. Christian Geist was organist at Trinitatis Church from 1684 to 1686.
It is music that describes and interprets the messages of Christmas as we know them. The rural atmosphere with animals and shepherds around the stable where the baby Jesus was born. It is the story of the morning star – the star above Bethlehem, the new light in the world, which in a figurative sense is of course also the baby Jesus himself – the light and hope that has now been brought into the world, and how we are now moving towards brighter times. But it is also music that puts into words the feelings of Jesus' mother, the Virgin Mary. She can sense that the child she has given birth to is no ordinary child, and so she asks God for help with what is to come.
CoCo's Christmas Concert 2023 can be experienced twice on the same evening.
The first concert of the evening will take place in Trinitatis Church, where the church's space amplifies the message of Christmas. Later that evening, we will play a selection of the same works in a more intimate concert at Musikhuset in Copenhagen with candlelight and the opportunity to purchase a glass of wine before the concert.So join us as we welcome Christmas and brighter times, and wish each other a Merry Christmas with our loved ones. Read more about this concert here.
PROGRAM
Hellendaal ( NL): Concerto Grosso op.3, no.4
Geist ( DE/DK): Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern
Corette ( F): Sinfonia VI sur les Nöels
Bernier ( F): Accurite fideles animae
Purcell (GB): The Blessed Virgin's Expostulation, Z. 196
Szarzynsky (PL): Sonata in D major
Böddecker (DE): Natus est Jesus
Sammartini (IT): Pastorale from Concerto Grosso, op. 5, no. 6
CONCERTS
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