Oh, Christmas Tree
The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire)
Wie soll ich dich empfangen
Little Drummer Boy
Lieb‘ Nachtigall, wach auf
Kommet, ihr Hirten
Let it Snow!
Es wird scho glei dumpa
Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier
O Holy Night
Zu Bethlehem geboren
O magnum mysterium
Quem vidistis pastores dicite
Videntes stellam
Hodie Christus natus est
Freu dich, Erd und Sternenzelt
Oh Christmas Tree
O Tannenbaum
Wir singen Dir in Deinem Heer
Rudolph the red-nosed Reindeer
Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht
Have yourself a merry little Christmas

Berno Scharpf, piano
Die Singphoniker

Johannes Euler, contreténor
Daniel Schreiber, ténor
Henning Jensen, ténor
Michael Mantaj, basse-baryton
Christian Schmidt, basse

Because the Christmas season ideally offers free time and opportunities for leisure, meditation, and self-reflection – all of which need not necessarily occur exclusively in the sphere of religious spirituality. We can also put our holidays to good use simply by doing nothing, not planning too much, and taking advantage of the opportunity for everything beyond the limits of our “to do” agendas. Time! For encounters, conversations, and ideas. Free space and time enable us to suspend our everyday routines and perhaps to entertain the eyes with pictures that we haven’t seen in a long time or haven’t ever seen before – and the ears with ditto sounds. This CD is intended especially for this »chronotopos«! Here the Singphoniker in no way wish to encroach on your time-space, providing it with an audio background or supplying the musical accompaniment. But if you want to close your eyes and open your ears, then the Singphoniker will be happy to join you. They would like to offer entertainment and to transmit joy in the form of many wonderful melodies and moods: the joy that comes with so many astonishing developments and combinations, with so many different elements and contrasts, with Christmas swing, with the classical tradition, with folk-song tones, and that ranges from the Singphonic special arrangement to the timeless classics of the modern era.