Conductor:
Featuring:
Handel
Zadok the Priest
Britten
A Ceremony of Carols, op. 28 – excerpts
Caccini
Ave Maria
Palestrina
Hodie Christus natus est
Schütz
Weihnachtshistorie – closing chorus
Javier Busto
O magnum mysterium
Bracket
The Gift to be Simple (arrangements by Bob Chilcott)
Levente Gyöngyösi
Asperges me
Miklós Kocsár
O magnum mysterium
Kodály
Angels and Shepherds
Biebl
Ave Maria
Ēriks Ešenvalds
Stars
Britten
Festival Te Deum, op. 32
Levente Gyöngyösi
Puer natus
Wade-Soma Szabó
O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)
John Rutter
Candlelight Carol
Gruber–Mohr
Silent Night
The Cantemus Choir, selected to be Müpa Budapest's Ensemble of the 2017/18 Season, is actually not just a single choir, but a family of them. The story began in Nyíregyháza more than four decades ago, in 1975 to be exact, when teacher and choirmaster Dénes Szabó founded the Cantemus Children's Choir with older students from the city's Primary School No. 4. As the years passed, former members too old for the children's choir would go on to establish the Pro Musica Girls' Choir, as well as the Banchieri Vocal Ensemble and the Cantemus Mixed Choir. Later, Dénes's son Soma Szabó would also join in with the teaching work, which – since the “original choir” had been formed inside a school's music department - was carried out according to Kodály's pedagogical principals from the very beginning. Attesting to the quality of the artistic achievements of the choirs and their choirmasters are the countless awards, recognitions and victories at competitions that have been amassed over the decades, as do the many concerts, albums and radio and television recordings they have to their name. Today, the Cantemus family of choirs is an indispensable part of the Hungarian concert scene.
With a stylistically rich programme ranging from Palestrina to John Rutter, their Advent concert is a worthy demonstration of the Cantemus choirs' skill, versatility and flexibility. By means of the pure sound of the human voice, this concert will elevate the joyful anticipation of Christmas to the spheres of the angels. Works by composers who could not be further apart stylistically, like Schütz, Britten, Handel and Miklós Kocsár, will come together to create a harmony of surprising clarity, becoming as one in the mystery of Advent to create a single overarching Christmas feeling.
The concert will be preceded from 6.30 pm by a conversation entitled Prelude, where ticket holders will be invited to get to know the performing musician and the works to be performed more closely.
Presented by: Müpa Budapest
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