Copenhagen Phil has made Bach's Christmas Oratorio a recurring festive tradition, and this performance brings the first three cantatas to life in Vor Frue Kirke's wider Copenhagen Cathedral setting. The work moves between the joyful brilliance of the opening chorus, with trumpets, timpani and choir, and quieter moments of reflection on the meaning of the Nativity.
Conducted by British Baroque specialist Laurence Cummings, the evening features soloists Berit Barfred-Christensen, Sophie Haagen, Jorge Navarro Colorado and Jonathan Brown, alongside Københavns Drengekor. Sophie Haagen also appears in Dvořák's Stabat Mater at Helligaandskirken on 22 November and in Bach's Christmas Oratorio with Kammerkoret Terpsichore on 2 December.
