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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 it's

over 800-year history, the choir gives an insight into it's

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 Tur" as

the great beginning of Christmas Vespers, "Silent Night,

Holy Night" shortly before the Christmas dinner or "O du

frohliche", during which Christmas is traditionally rung in

with key rings during the performance in the Kreuzkirche.

The Dresdner Kreuzchor takes the listeners into it's very

special and unique Christmas.