Christmas Oratorio: Johann Sebastian Bach at Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden

Baden‐Baden, Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden

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About the Event

“Our mother tongue is the music of the Habsburg monarchy”, says Iván Fischer about his Budapest Festival Orchestra, with whom the artist turns his attention to an entirely bourgeois Protestant from Germany: Johann Sebastian Bach. Of course, Bach is musically a universalist. Music of any kind only sounds alive when different traditions come together in it. Iván Fischer, a student of Swarowsky and Harnoncourt, Hungarian, scion of a Jewish family, draws his own humanistic universalism from this abundance, with which he now encounters Bach's “Christmas Oratorio”. An experience.

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Program

Johann Sebastian Bach – Weihnachtsoratorium — Kantaten I, II, III und VI

Program is subject to change

Artists

Orchestra:	Budapest Festival Orchestra
Conductor, Violoncello da Spalla:	Ivan Fischer Ivan Fischer is one of the world's most sought‐after conductors. Chief Conductor of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin since the 2012/13 season, he was the founder of the Budapest Festival Orchestra in 1983, and he enjoys a close partnership with the Vienna State Opera. Ivan Fischer has won numerous awards, and he has performed in practically every major concert house in the world.
Choir:	Collegium Vocale Gent Collegium Vocale Gent was founded in 1970 on the initiative of Philippe Herreweghe. It was one of the first ensembles to use the then‐new ideas about baroque practice in vocal music performances. Musicians such as Gustav Leonhardt, Ton Koopman and Nikolaus Harnoncourt immediately took an interest in the Flemish ensemble’s fresh, new approach, which led to intensive collaboration. In the mid‐1980s the ensemble acquired international fame and was invited to all the major concert halls and music festivals of Europe, Israel, the United States, Russian, South America, Japan, Hong Kong and Australia.
Bass:	Hanno Müller‐Brachmann
Tenor:	Julian Prégardien
Soprano:	Julia Lezhneva
Alto:	Olivia Vermeulen

Address

Festspielhaus Baden‐Baden, Beim Alten Bahnhof 2, Baden‐Baden, Germany — Google Maps