Search for:
spinner

Christmas night in the Leeuwenbergh

There is a live broadcast on Thursday 24 December from 22:00 to midnight CET from the Leeuwenbergh in Utrecht! You can listen to a traditional Christmas night concert given by various musicians including the Leeuwenbergh Vocal Ensemble.

 

For the 11th year the Leeuwenbergh forms the atmospheric location for a traditional Christmas night concert. The Leeuwenbergh, a mediaeval bulding in the centre of Utrecht, was originally the plague house for the city and was used at Christmas for a service for those who could not go to the church.


The live broadcast by the Concertzender allows our listeners to also experience this unique Christmas night event.

 

Programme

  • The Leeuwenbergh Vocal Ensemble conducted by Roel Vogel sings ‘Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël’ by Francis Poulenc and two songs by the Lebanese composer Naji Hakim.
  • Soprano Eva Schuurman sings the Exsultate Jubilate by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart accompanied by the pianist Reinder Mulder.
  • Baritone Evert Jan Nagtegaal sings a carol by William Neidlinger ‘The Birthday of a King’.
  • Fehim Jomma accompanies himself on the Oud and sings about his motherland Kurdistan.
  • Danibal plays music on various types of Jew's harp.
  • The violinist Willemijn van der Zwaard plays an aria from Handel’s Messiah: ‘He shall feed his flock’.
  • Pianist Reinder Mulder plays the ‘Nocturne op.27 no.2’ by Frederic Chopin.
  • Peter Spreeuwers plays the organ in the Leeuwenbergh.

 

There are also two speakers: Ds. Arjan Noordhoek, the secretary of the organisation ’Friends of the Leeuwenbergh' and Pieter Beelaerts van Blokland, a former governor of the province of Utrecht.

 

Click here to go to the website of the Leeuwenbergh.