Pannon Philharmonic

Conductor

András Vass

Education:
Twelve years of piano studies at the Targu Mures Arts Lyceum; two years of private study with the composer Boldizsár Csíky; Balthasar five years of conducting study led by  Ervin Lukács, András Ligeti, and Tamás Gál, after having admitted with maximum score to Franz Liszt Academy of Music… More

Soloist

Ingrid Kertesi

soprano

Andrea Meláth

Ortrud

László Kéringer

tenor

László Jekl

basso

Kodály Choir Debrecen (chorus master: Zoltán Pad)

About the Programme

At the time of Bach, the Christmas Oratorio certainly did not sound the same way as today, featuring Ingrid Kertesi , Andrea Meláth,  Dávid Szigetvári, István Kovács,  and the Budapest Studio, conducted by András Vass. The title is misleading: the work (or rather works) is not an oratorio in Handelian sense, but a series of six cantatas, which were originally performed in Leipzig on six different days: on the three days of Christmas, on New Year's Day, on the following Sunday, and at Twelfth Night. The fact that the individual cantatas are composed for various instrumentation further confirms that, although they are closely related, Bach did not imagine them as a continuous, uninterrupted performance. It is very common that not the whole cycle is presented, but as this time as well, just part of it.