Classics for Christmas
Musica Sacra celebrates the magic of the season at Carnegie Hall. Soprano Kathryn Lewek joins for the “Glory to God” sequence and “Rejoice greatly” from Handel’s Messiah and sings Adam’s Cantique de Noël. Metropolitan Opera harpist Mariko Anraku performs in Handel’s Concerto for Harp in B-flat Major. This festive evening also includes choral selections from Bach’s Mass in B Minor and Rachmaninoff’s Vespers, plus works by Corelli, Poulenc, Helena Paish and Thompson.
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Carnegie Hall
Kent Tritle, conductor
Michael Sheetz, conductor*
Kathryn Lewek, soprano
Mariko Anraku, harp
J.S. BACH “Gloria in excelsis” from Mass in B Minor
RANDALL THOMPSON Alleluia
ARCANGELO CORELLI Concerto Grosso Op. 6, No. 8 in G Minor
G.F. HANDEL Excerpts from Messiah:
Pastoral Symphony
“Glory to God”
“Rejoice greatly”
FRANCIS POULENC O Magnum Mysterium
HELENA PAISH “While Mary Slept”
G.F. HANDEL Concerto for Harp in B-flat Major, Op. 4, No. 6
ADOLPHE ADAM Cantique de Noël*
SERGEI RACHMANINOFF “Bogoroditse Dyevo” from Vespers
G.F. HANDEL “Worthy is the Lamb” from Messiah
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