Christmas Concert Adoremus and Guests
On Saint Stephen’s Day, the imposing coronation cathedral will once again resound with beautiful Christmas music
After a year, the Slovak choir Adoremus and members of the Slovak Chamber Orchestra come again to bring a musical rendition of the mystery of Christmas with their traditional concert.
At St Martin’s Cathedral in Bratislava on 26 December at 3 p.m., together with tenor Miroslav Dvorský and diseur Jozef Šimonovič, they will perform a Slovak Christmas gem – Jozef Halma’s well-known, merciful Christmas Mass “Joyful Tidings” arranged by Dušan Billa for mixed choir and orchestra.
Halmo, a versatile musician, music teacher and music producer who has lived in Munich since 1969, composed Joyful Tidings at the suggestion of the Salesian priest and prominent Roman Catholic publicist Anton Hlinka, who is also the author of the text. The composition is enriched with motifs of Slovak Christmas pastorals. It is still sung in many churches and in various arrangements. It has been accepted by believers and non-believers, adults and children. It has also been recorded in German and French versions, and even this has not wiped out the Slovak colour.
The concert programme will also include an instrumental work that emphasises and evokes the atmosphere of Christmas – the well-known Concerto grosso in G minor, Op. 6, No. 8 Fatto per notte di Natale (“Christmas Concerto”) by Arcangelo Corelli.
The story of the arrival of the King of Human Hearts is clothed in a colourful dress of words, customs, paintings and songs. The dramaturgy of the Christmas Concert therefore offers a varied palette of carols that, in an admirable and diverse form for centuries, heralds the biblical story of the Mystery of the Birth of Jesus throughout the world.
These songs, sung in the Christmas period, always conquered the hearts of people. The simple beauty of carols, their spontaneous sincerity, which emanates from both the poetic and the musical component, does not leave us indifferent. The more they are received, the clearer they realize their poverty, they long for the caress of the soul that the Bethlehem message gives them. The new album of the Slovak choir Adoremus, CD Ave Maria, will also be presented at the concert.
The unrepeatable atmosphere of the holy night, which invites human souls to silence and receive the ever-living news of the Birth, will be enriched at the end of the concert by Gruber’s favourite “Silent Night”.
Come to please yourselves with the spiritual beauty of subtle tones. Christmas music interpreted in an authentic, monumental sacred space offers an unusual, unique artistic experience and will surely enrich the experience of the holiday.
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