Bach’s Christmas Oratorio meets Ukrainian Christmas music | Live Concert from the Berlin Cathedral

Johann Sebastian Bach's Christmas Oratorio is quintessential Christmas classic. This concert at the Berlin Cathedral will feature the two cornerstone cantatas "Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage" (Shout for joy, exult, rise up, praise the day) and "Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben" (Lord, when our insolent enemies snort). Works by Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, Johann Theile, Maxim Berezovsky and Ganna Gavrylets as well as Ukrainian Christmas carols will also be performed.

This festive concert will feature top-class ensembles and soloists – the Staats- und Domchor Berlin, the girls' choir of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, a Ukrainian vocal ensemble, the lautten compagney Berlin and soloists Johannes Gaubitz, Neima Fischer, Julia Böhme and Cornelius Uhle. Kai-Uwe Jirka, conductor of the State and Cathedral Choir and artistic director of the Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, will conduct. Choir director Olga Prykhodko is responsible for rehearsals of the Ukrainian choral movements.

Program:

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714-1788)
Meine Seele erhebet den Herrn, Wq. 215, H.772

CARL PHILIPP EMANUEL BACH (1714-1788)
Heilig, Wq. 217, H.778

MAXIM BERESOWSKI (1745-1777)
Радуйтеся праведнии / Freu Dich des Gerechten

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Jauchzet, frohlocket! Auf, preiset die Tage, BWV 248
Part I of Christmas Oratorio

GANNA GAVRYLETS (1958-2022)
Bukovinsky Christmas

JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750)
Herr, wenn die stolzen Feinde schnauben, BWV 248
Part VI of Christmas Oratorio

JOHANN THEILE (1646-1724)
Der Sionitin Wiegenlied

TRADITIONAL UKRANIAN CHRISTMAS CAROL
Спи Ісусе спи (Sleep, Jesus, sleep)

Performers:
Neima Fischer | SOPRANO
Julia Böhme | ALTO
Johannes Gaubitz | TENOR
Cornelius Uhle | BASS
lautten compagney Berlin
камерто́н / Kammerton – Ukranian choral ensamble
Staats- und Domchor Berlin
Mädchenchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin
Kammerchor der Sing-Akademie zu Berlin
Kai-Uwe Jirka and Olga Prykhodko | DIRECTION

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