Concerto Copenhagen invites you to a Christmas concert at Trinitatis Church, where the orchestra will perform Christmas music from across Europe.
This year’s Christmas concert celebrates our many different traditions, as well as those we share. In many places around the world, we have always—each in our own way—celebrated the winter solstice. The Vikings “drank to Christmas,” but today we celebrate the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, and one thing is almost always common across cultures: music.
Regardless of our stories, cultures, and traditions, music is what unites us and is an integral part of the Christmas celebration. That’s why you can look forward to experiencing a taste 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 served as organist at Trinitatis Church from 1684 to 1686.
This is music that describes and interprets the familiar messages of Christmas. The rural scenes with animals and shepherds around the stable where the Baby Jesus was born. It is the story of the Morning Star—the star over 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 toward 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 enjoyed twice on the same evening.
The evening’s first concert takes place at Trinitatis Church, where the church’s acoustics enhance the Christmas message. Later that evening, we’ll perform a selection of the same pieces in a more intimate concert at Musikhuset in Copenhagen, featuring candlelight and the opportunity to enjoy 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 those we hold dear. Read more about this concert here.