Concerto Copenhagen brings a Baroque Christmas programme that explores two of Christmas's core moods: the joyful anticipation of the Christ child's coming and the peace that we hope will settle over people and the world.
The pastoral tradition is at the heart of the evening. Its gentle, swaying rhythms evoke shepherds in the fields near Bethlehem, where the world seems briefly to stand still. Bach remains the guiding light of the programme, alongside rarely heard works by Telemann, Heinichen, Pez, Kuhnau and Graupner.
Lars Ulrik Mortensen conducts the ensemble, and the English soprano Joanne Lunn is the soloist.
