Saturday, 12/14/2024
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Timeless songs and melodies for Christmas in an intimate setting

During the most beautiful time of the year, jazz singer Sandie Wollasch - named by SWR as one of the "Best in the Southwest" - meets flutist Andrea Ritter and pianist Daniel Koschitzki - both distinguished with the ECHO Klassik and known from their internationally touring formation Spark. With soft tones, virtuosic joy of playing, and a lot of passion, they capture the melancholy of winter and the magic of Christmas in a selection of personal favorites.

Year after year, cities shine a little brighter in December. Festivity is in the air, childhood memories awaken, and one longs for peace and security. Wollasch, Ritter, and Koschitzki explore this intimate atmosphere of the Christmas season and focus in the intimate trio setting on the essentials: a powerful voice in dialogue with a delicate flute, emotionally accompanied on the piano. The full-blooded singer and the two classical stars demonstrate a great sensitivity for exciting sound connections, combining the familiar with the unheard, and playfully moving virtuously between different eras and genres.

They breathe new life into traditional Christmas carols such as “Leise rieselt der Schnee,” “Es ist ein Ros entsprungen,” “In dulci jubilo,” or “God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen,” “In The Bleak Midwinter,” and “O Holy Night,” as well as popular contemporary songs like “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “This Christmas,” and “River.” Ritter and Koschitzki also contribute classical highlights from their repertoire, including Baroque compositions by Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Vivaldi, and Johann Sebastian Bach, as well as modern works by Michael Nyman, Ludovico Einaudi, or Ola Gjeilo.

Thus, Baroque splendor, classical masterpieces, traditional Christmas songs, and Christmas hits intertwine to create a unique winter wonderland of sounds. While Sandie Wollasch pulls out all the stops of her expressive voice in the sensitive arrangements of the trio, Andrea Ritter and Daniel Koschitzki draw from a rich arsenal of instruments ranging from the 20-centimeter-long sopranino flute to the 2-meter-high bass flute, including replicas of Baroque instruments to newly developed keyed flutes and a lotus flute.

Sandie Wollasch – Vocals
Andrea Ritter – Recorder
Daniel Koschitzki – Piano, Recorder

Tickets may still be available at Kulturhaus Osterfeld, Tel: 07231-318210

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