A Child Is Born

A Christmas Celebration with Songs and Cantatas

Next concert

Sunday 29. 12. 2019 | 19.30 Sts. Simon and Jude Church
Dušní/U Milosrdných, Praha 1 - Staré Město

Programme

Adam Michna z Otradovic (ca 1600 – 1676)
Christmas Tavern

Václav Karel Holan Rovenský (1644–1718)
To the Lovely Baby Jesus

Michael Praetorius (1571–1621)
Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem

Jan Josef Božan (1644–1715)
A Child Is Born

Johann Rosenmüller (1619–1684)
O Nomen Jesu, Nomen dulce, RWV.E 8

Dietrich Buxtehude (ca 1637 – 1707)
Christmas Cantata, “Das neugeborne Kindelein”, BuxWV 13

Georg Philipp Telemann (1681–1767)
Cantata for Sunday in the New Year, “Wie? Kehren sich, bei Jesus Krippen”, TWV 1:1625

Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel (1690–1749)
Concerto for Flute and Oboe in E Minor
Christmas Cantata „Ehre sei Gott in der Hoehe“, H.352

Concert with an Intermission. Estimated end at 9:15 pm.

Annotation

The Christmas program brings songs and cantatas by German authors, as well as songs from Czech hymnals. Among the highlights of the program will be sacred cantatas by masters of this style: the richly orchestrated cantata by Dietrich Buxtehude and an equally splendid cantata for solo soprano and orchestra by Telemann. The final piece of the programme will be an exquisite concerto for flute and oboe by Bach’s contemporary Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel.