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Concert
Wednesday | 2 December 2026 7 p.m.

Advent concert with the chamber choir of the HfK Bremen

St. Johann Kirche (Schnoor)

“O Saviour, tear open the heavens” - Advent and Christmas choral music by Brahms, Mendelssohn, Rachmaninoff, Grieg and others


Chamber Choir of the HfK Bremen
Felix Mende (Organ)
Conductor: Prof. Detlef Bratschke

Programme

  • Hans Leo Hassler — *Verbum caro factum est* for 6 voices (1591)
  • Gottfried Wolters — *Maria durch ein Dornwald ging*
  • Johann Eccard — *Übers Gebirg Maria geht* for 5 voices (1575)
  • Johannes Brahms — *O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf*, Op. 74, No. 2 (1860)
  • Sigfrid Karg-Elert — Resonet in laudibus, Op. 106, No. 3, for organ
  • Joanna Forbes L’Estrange — Advent O’Carol
  • Sergei Rachmaninoff — Bogoroditse devo, Schestopsalmje 
  • Eugène Gigout — Rhapsodie sur des Noëls for organ (1890)
  • François-Auguste Gevaert — Le message des anges
  • François-Auguste Gevaert — Le sommeil de l’enfant Jésus, Noël nouvelet
  • Johannes Brahms — Es ist ein Ros entsprungen, Op. 122, No. 8, for organ (1896)
  • Michael Praetorius/Jan Sandström — Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (1609/1990)
  • Eric Whitacre — Lux aurumque (2000)

 

Admission is free

St. Johann Kirche (Schnoor) Hohe Straße 2 28195 Bremen
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