Gala Concert

9th October 2009 / 8:30 p.m. / Nikolaikirche

with music by Ludwig van Beethoven, Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy, Johann Sebastian Bach and Johannes Brahms.

The concert is presenting a top-class line-up: Maestro Kurt Masur will conduct the Gewandhaus Orchestra, the St. Thomas’s Boys Choir will sing under the direction of Thomaskantor Georg-Christoph Biller. The event will be solemnly opened with Beethoven’s Egmont overture, rising up to the stars of international choir music with Johann Sebastian Bach’s motet for two four-part choirs “Fürchte dich nicht” (Be not afraid) and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy’s eight-part choir “Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir” (For He will give His angels charge concerning you) to finally culminate in Johannes Brahms’s magnificent 2nd Symphony in D Major.