Andreas Hammerschmidt (1612-1675)
Stimmige Fest und Zeit-Andachten:Sei willkommen, Jesulein

Michael Praetorius (1571-1621)
Es ist ein Ros' Entsprungen
Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland
Singet und klinget, ihr Kinderlein, extrait de "Puericinium"

Johannes Eccard (1533-1611)
Preußische Festlieder, Übers Gebirg Maria Geht

Samuel Seiderl (1615-1665)
Uns ist ein Kind geboren

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)
"Tochter Zion, freue dich", extrait de "Judas Maccabäus", HWV 63

Rudolf Mauersberger (1889-1971)
Christvesper, RMWV 7 (extraits)

Max Reger (1873-1916)
12 Deutsche geistliche Gesänge, WoO VI/13 (extraits)

Christoph Demantius (1567-1643)
Jerusalem gaude gaudio magno, extrait de "Florilegium Portense"

Ulrich Schicha (1934-1993)
Leise rieselt der Schnee
Ihr Kinderlein kommet

Carl Thiel (1862-1939)
In Dulci Jubilo

Willi Trader (1920-1981)
Lieb Nachtigall, wah Auf

Felix Woyrsch (1860-1944)
Maria auf dem Berge

Cornelius Freundt (1535-1591)
Wie schön singt uns der Engel Schar

Heinrich Kaminski (1886-1946)
Preußische Festlieder, Maria durch ein Dornwald Ging

Franz Xaver Gruber (1787-1863)
Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht

Dresdner Kreuzchor
Capella Sagittariana
Roderich Kreile, direction
Dresdner Philharmonie
Gothart Stier, direction

Christmas with the Dresdner Kreuzchor means for the approx. 120 young singers of the Kreuzchor each year also a Christmas at the Dresdner Kreuzchor. With this selection of the best and most beautiful works from its over 800-year history, the choir gives an insight into its traditions around the most contemplative festival of the year. When the sun sets after two concerts on December 24, you can see candles flickering through the long corridors in the buildings of the Dresdner Kreuzchor. Everyone associates Christmas carols with unique situations and traditions; this also applies to the Dresdner Kreuzchor, whose days around Christmas are filled with special moments and songs that belong to them. Rudolf Mauersberger’s choral setting of “Macht hoch die Tür" as the great beginning of Christmas Vespers, “Silent Night, Holy Night” shortly before the Christmas dinner or “O du fröhliche”, during which Christmas is traditionally rung in with key rings during the performance in the Kreuzkirchechor takes the listeners into its very special and unique Christmas.