Preview: Viennese Advent — The Advent Concert by the Wiener Symphoniker at St. Stephen's

About the Event

You can't get more Advent spirit, more Vienna and more contemplation as the Wiener Symphoniker once again move to the spectacular ambience of Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral for their grand Advent concert on December 7.

The program, led by the orchestra's first guest conductor, Marie Jacquot, travels in time from Michael Praetorius ('Es ist ein Ros entsprungen') to Andrew Lloyd Webber ('Pie Jesu') and geographically from Leopold Mozart's Austria to Pyotr Tchaikovsky's Russia ('Nutcracker' and 'Snowflake Waltz'), on to Albert Malotte's United States and Adolphe Adam's France ('Cantique de Noël').
Soprano Fatma Said, tenor Jonathan Tetelman and the Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde will take you on a journey into musical Christmas traditions from around the world. The program will, naturally, also include the great Christmas classics such as Bach's 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude', William Gomez's 'Ave Maria,' and — for a joint finale — the carol 'O du fröhliche.'


Program

Michael Praetorius
'Es ist ein Ros entsprungen' (Arrangement: Jan Sandström / Heinrich Bruckner)

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
'Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme' ('Awake, the voice calls to us'), 16th chorale from the oratorio 'Paulus' op. 36
'Jerusalem! Die du tötest die Propheten' ('Jerusalem! Thou slayest the prophets') 7th aria for soprano from the oratorio ' Paul,' op. 36
'Drum sing' ich mit meinem Liede' ('So I sing with my song'), duet for soprano and tenor from the Symphony Cantata No. 2 B flat major op. 52 'Lobgesang' ('Hymn of Praise')

Albert Hay Malotte
'The Lord's Prayer'

Johann Sebastian Bach
'Jesus bleibet meine Freude' chorale from the cantata 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben' BWV 147 (arrangement: Heinrich Bruckner)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
'Snowflake Waltz' from the ballet 'The Nutcracker' op. 71
'Pas de deux' from the ballet 'The Nutcracker' op. 71

William Gomez
'Ave Maria'

Leopold Mozart
Sinfonia pastorella G major for alphorn in F and strings, 3rd movement (Presto )

Anonymous
'Frohlocket ihr Christen'

Sigfrid Karg‐Elert
'Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ' op. 65 No. 6 from the 66 Choral Improvisations for Organ Solo op. 65

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy
'Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen' ('For he hath commanded his angels') MWV B 53 (Arrangement: Ben Mansted)

Andrew Lloyd Webber
Pie Jesu from Requiem for three solo voices, mixed choir, orchestra and organ

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Magnificat, 1st chorus from the Magnificat D major Wq 215

Adolphe Adam
'Cantique de Noël'

John Rutter
'Shepherd's Pipe Carol'

Anonymous
'Oh du fröhliche'