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.
