Popular Christmas classics with Daniel Hope

Musical anticipation for the biggest festival of the year with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra:

Music Director Daniel Hope has a program of well-known Christmas carols compiled. Including late romantic Nordic compositions by Nielsen and Sibelius – and many musical temptations from North America.

On December 14th, Daniel Hope and the Zurich Chamber Orchestra will play some of the most beautiful Christmas carols. The renowned British arranger Paul Bateman wrote five American classics for the ZKO, including “White Christmas »by Irving Berlin, rewritten. “There are few Christmas carols that make you so excited like White Christmas », Daniel Hope is convinced. With “The Christmas Song”, “A Child is born ”, “ Maybe this Christmas ”and“ Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ” are four more American Christmas classics on the program which will be there that evening. Paul Bateman’s arrangements promise Hollywood glamor, a pinch of jazz and dazzling string music.

Two selected works by Scandinavian composers round off the festive concert evening. So are two of the six hilarious humoresques for violin and orchestra from 1916 and 1917 by Jean Sibelius, which he himself called “of great stature”. The orchestra also presents an early work by the Dane Carl Nielsen, which he called “Little Suite op. 1” and originally composed for string quintet.

About the program:

Jean Sibelius Humoresques op.89
Carl Nielsen Little Suite op. 1, FS 6
Irving Berlin White Christmas, edited by Paul Bateman
Thad Jones A Child is born for Violin and Strings, arranged by Paul Bateman
Ron Sexsmith Maybe this Christmas, edited by Paul Bateman
Bob Wells The Christmas Song, edited by Paul Bateman
Hugh Martin Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, edited by Paul Bateman
Traditionally Adeste Fidelis, edited by Paul Bateman

The concert will be played without a break.

Tuesday, December 14, 2021, 7.30 p.m. – Tonhalle am See, Great Hall

Daniel Hope Music Director with the Zurich Chamber Orchestra

Tickets
• ZKO Consulting & Sales (Mon – Fri, 11 a.m. – 5 p.m.), Seefeldstrasse 305, 8008 Zurich, Tel. 044 552 59 00, tickets@zko.ch,
www.zko.ch
• Tonhalle am See ticket office, Claridenstrasse 7, Zurich