Adventskonzert
ca. 12.20 p.m.
Programme
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Prelude from Der Schneemann (The Snowman)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen (A girl or a woman) from Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)
Richard Strauss
Lieben, Hassen, Hoffen, Zagen (Love, Hate, Hope, Fear) from Ariadne auf Naxos (Ariadne on Naxos)
Hans Pfitzner
Es fällt ein Stern herunter (A Star Falls), Op. 4, No. 3
Wanderers Nachtlied (Wanderer's Night Song), Op. 40, No. 5
Engelbert Humperdinck
Overture from Hänsel und Gretel (Hansel and Gretel)
Traditional
A La Nanita Nana
John Stainer
The First Nowell
Gustav Holst
In the Bleak Midwinter
Felix Mendelssohn
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, adapted by William Hayman Cummings
Wilhelm Stenhammar
Interlude from cantata Sången, Op. 44
Richard Wagner
O du, mein holder Abendstern from Tannhäuser
Florian Walser
Christmas medley, new version
Participants
Äneas Humm Baritone
Mädchenkantorei Basel Choir
Katharina Müllner Conductor
Sinfonieorchester Basel Orchestra
Advent with Äneas Humm
This year, the Basler Mädchenkantorei will once again sing beautiful Christmas carols at the traditional Advent concert of the Sinfonieorchester Basel. The young Swiss baritone Äneas Humm will be performing as a special guest. Conducted by 33-year-old Austrian conductor Katharina Müllner, the concert will get everyone in the mood for the approaching Christmas season.
Charismatic, youthful, celebrated – Swiss baritone Äneas Humm captivates audiences on the opera stage and in the concert hall alike. He appeared as Papageno in Mozart's Zauberflöte at the Theater St. Gallen and in Gabriel Fauré's Requiem at the Amsterdam Concertgebouw. Samples of his operatic and concert singing talents can now be enjoyed at the Adventskonzert. Humm sings Papageno's playful aria Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen from Mozart's Zauberflöte and fills the hall with the most tender sounds in Richard Wagner's Abendstern from Tannhäuser. As a special treat, the program includes two orchestral songs by Hans Pfitzner: Wanderers Nachtlied and the gently sparkling Es fällt ein Stern herunter. Together with the Mädchenkantorei, he will sing a new arrangement of Florian Walser's popular Christmas medley. The concert will be rounded off with work by Erich Wolfgang Korngold and the Interlude from Wilhelm Stenhammar's romantic cantata Sången – a declaration of love for music by the Swedish composer.
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About the event
Important information
There will be no intermission during this concert.
