Lion Fondation Celebrate Christmas 2006

Join the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra and their guests the Graduate Choir for a celebration of the music the great composers have written to celebrate Christmas. Works include pieces by Bach, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Britten and Holst - a wonderful collection of music of reverence and joy. Get away from the Christmas rush and take some time out to come and enjoy the sounds of the festive season at their most refined.

Conductor - Marc Taddei
Soloists - PricewaterhouseCoopers Dame Malvina Major Emerging Artists and the Graduate Choir

PRAETORIUS Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen
BACH, J.S. Opening Chorus from Christen ätzet diesen Tag
CHARPENTIER Noëls pour les instruments (excerpts)
MARSHALL With Love At Christmas
CORELLI Christmas Concerto
Interval
BRITTEN Hymn to the Virgin
CORNELIUS Die drei Könige
HUMPERDINCK Evening Prayer (from Hänsel and Gretel)
HEAD Little Road to Bethlehem
HOLST Christmas Day: Choral Fantasia on Old Carols
TCHAIKOVSKY Noel (from The Seasons)
BRAHMS Variations on a Christmas Carol
MENDELSSOHN Symphony No.2 "Lobgesang", final movement
GRUBER Silent Night

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