Advent Concert Advent Concert

Festive Advent Concert At the Fr auenkirche Dresden

Sonya Regula Yoncheva Mühlemann

Staatsk apelle Dresden A ndr és Orozco-Estr ada Festive Advent Concert At the Fr auenkirche Dresden

FELIX MENDELSSOHN BARTHOLDY “Alles, was Odem hat, lobe den Herrn”, “Lobe den Herrn, meine Seele”, “Ich harrete des Herrn” from Lobgesang “Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott” from Reformations-Sinfonie

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART “Exsultate jubilate”, “Alleluia” from Exsultate jubilate

JOHANN ECCARD “Übers Gebirg Maria geht”

FRANZ SCHUBERT “Magnificat anima mea”, “Deposuit potentes”, “Gloria patri” from Magnificat

GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL “Lascia ch’io pianga” from Rinaldo

ANTON BRUCKNER “Ave Maria” “In dulci jubilo”, Christmas Carol “Macht hoch die Tür”, Christmas Carol (arr. Jarkko Riihimäki)

The Advent Concert has become a much loved tradition in Conductor Andrés Orozco-Estrada Dresden, enjoyed by music lovers throughout the world. In this Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden edition, the Staatskapelle Dresden performs under the baton Chorus Dresdner Kreuzchor of the renowned Columbian maestro Andrés Orozco-Estrada. Dresdner Kammerchor Bulgarian star soprano Sonya Yoncheva, winner of the ECHO Chorus Master Roderich Kreile Klassik in the category “Newcomer of the Year”, returns to the Tobias Mäthger Frauenkirche and excels with “volume and sonority and a rich vibrato”. She is accompanied by another rising star: Swiss soprano Soprano Sonya Yoncheva Regula Mühlemann, impressing by her “clear, bright, almost Regula Mühlemann girlish soprano, full of ease” (Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten). Two Mezzo-soprano Jelena Kordić top-class choirs, Dresdner Kreuzchor – celebrating its 800th Tenor Khanyiso Gwenxane anniversary – and Dresdner Kammerchor, provide for choral Bass Alexandros Stavrakakis church music at its best.

Produced by ZDF The thoughtfully compiled program features seasonally Video Director Elisabeth Malzer appropriate selections by Handel, Schubert, Mozart and Mendelssohn as well as traditionals.

Length: 61' Cat. no. A 055 50592 0000

A production of ZDF in co-production with UNITEL in cooperation with Staatskapelle Dresden and Stiftung Frauenkirche Dresden

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