Kerstconcert met het Nederlands kamerorkest en Cappella Amsterdam by Various, ket 21 grd 2023, Nuo (2023/2023), Dirigentas Krista Audere, Grote Kerk Alkmaar, Alkmaar, Netherlands

Conducted by the Latvian choir director Krista Audere, the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Cappella Amsterdam will perform an atmospheric Christmas concert. The program includes Grieg's Holberg Suite and a selection from Handel's oratorio The Messiah . Choir music by Cappella Amsterdam The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra and Cappella Amsterdam bring a heartwarming Christmas concert with beloved, but also surprising vocal and instrumental Christmas music. In addition to old and new choral music by Praetorius and Pärt, Cappella Amsterdam sings the cheerful Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Vaughan Williams, in which Raoul Steffani performs as a baritone solo. Of unprecedented beauty is the soprano solo in Hillborg's O dessa Ögon, sung by Katharine Dain. Krista Audere conducts Handel's The Messiah The Netherlands Chamber Orchestra plays works by Finzi, MacDowell and Grieg's atmospheric Holberg Suite . Choir, soloists and orchestra come together in a selection from Handel's The Messiah , his best-known oratorio, in which he musically brings the person of Christ to life with a multitude of choruses and arias. The conductor is in the hands of the Latvian choral conductor Krista Audere, who lives in the Netherlands. After winning the Eric Ericson Award in 2021, she has rocketed through her career as one of the best international choral conductors.