Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Félix Alexandre Guilmant, George Frideric Handel, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Performer: Christine Schäfer, Simon Keenlyside, Staatskapelle Dresden, Matthias Wollong, Bernd Schober, Samuel Kummer, Choir of Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden
Conductor: Peter Schreier
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Sony
Catalogue: 88697375752
Release: 2008
Size: 323 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. trad.: Glockengeläut Frauenkirche
Handel: Messiah
02. Sinfonia
03. Halleluja
Bach: Mass in B minor, BWV232
04. Et in spiritum sanctum
05. Gloria. Et in terra pax
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068
06. Air (‘Air on a G String’)
07. Handel: Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion (from Messiah)
Bach: Concerto for Violin and Oboe in D minor, BWV 1060
08. I. Allegro
Mendelssohn: Elijah, Op. 70
09. Ja, es sollen wohl Berge weichen
10. Wer bis ans Ende beharrt
Guilmant: March upon Handel’s ‘Lift Up Your Heads’, Op. 15
11. No. 2
12. Handel: Ehre sei Gott in der Höhe aus “Der Messias” (Adapted by Mozart)
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate, K165
13. Exsultate, jubilate
14. Alleluja
15. Handel: Tochter Zion
The concert was broadcast live by ZDF and reached an audience of millions of viewers. The two soloists were accompanied by the Staatskapelle Dresden and Choir of Sächsischen Staatsoper Dresden conducted by Peter Schreier.
The programme included popular selections from Handel’s Messiah and Bach’s Mass in B minor as well as additional works by Mendelssohn, Mozart and Guilmant, and the Advent song Tochter Zion.