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Christiane Karg
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'Weihnachten – es naht die jubelvolle Zeit'

Christiane Karg soprano; Gerold Huber piano

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Date
Mon 01 Dec 2025, 7.30pm
Tickets
£40 £37 £33 £27 £18
Duration

This concert will be approximately 2 hours in duration, including an interval

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Artists

  • Christiane Kargsoprano
  • Gerold Huberpiano

Programme

  • Engelbert Humperdinck
    1854-1921
      • Weihnachtslieder
        :
      • Weihnachten
      • Das Licht der Welt
      • Christkindleins Wiegenlied
      • Weihnachtsfreude
  • Peter Cornelius
    1824-1874
      • Weihnachtslieder Op. 8
        :
      • Christbaum
      • Die Hirten
      • Die Könige
      • Christkind
  • Richard Strauss
    1864-1949
      • Weihnachtsgefühl
      • Die heiligen drei Könige aus Morgenland Op. 56 No. 6

Interval

  • Max Reger
    1873-1916
      • 5 Neue Kinderlieder Op. 142
        :
      • Maria am Rosenstrauch
  • Hugo Wolf
    1860-1903
      • Spanisches Liederbuch Geistliche Lieder
        :
      • Ach, des Knaben Augen
      • Die ihr schwebet
  • Joaquín Nin
    1879-1949
      • 10 villancicos españolas
        :
      • Villancico vasco
      • Villancico murciano
      • Villancico castellano
      • Villancico asturiano
  • Jules Massenet
    1842-1912
      • Le noël des humbles
      • Noël de fleurs
      • Noël païen

Overview

Christmas gems spanning music from six countries and two centuries supply the evergreen substance of Christiane Karg’s seasonal recital. Her programme includes a sequence of heartwarming songs by Engelbert Humperdinck and Peter Cornelius, sparkling rarities by Ravel and Chaminade, and a quartet of seductive villancicos españolas by Cuban composer Joaquín Nin.

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This concert is supported by the Rick Mather David Scrase Foundation

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