The Christmas Show with the Danish Chamber Orchestra

The Danish Chamber Orchestra has a long and proud tradition of traveling across the country to mark Christmas through music. In recent years, this has been with Burhan G, while this year will feature four new, powerful soloists on stages in concert halls throughout the country.

”Together with Pernille Rosendahl, Nicklas Sahl, Stine Bramsen, and NOAH, we will certainly embrace some of the great emotions that Christmas awakens in us. We can do this because they each bring their own sound, have different memories, and their own emotional perspective on Christmas, which will be fantastic to release together with them. We look forward to spreading light and gathering the Danes in the December darkness,” says John Frandsen, Director of the Danish Chamber Orchestra.

And the enthusiasm for this exciting musical collaboration is reciprocated by the four singers, who look forward to singing Christmas in with the entire Danish Chamber Orchestra backing them.

”Christmas is something we gather around. And not least the songs of Christmas. Whether it’s the hymns we sing around the tree in the living room, ’All I Want For Christmas’ on the radio, or all the cozy advent calendar songs on television, there is something special about the feeling the music brings in December, which hits you every single year,” Stine Bramsen begins and continues: ”Together with the Danish Chamber Orchestra, anything is possible. And I certainly believe that what we can each create with them will be enchanting, fun, and nostalgic.”

Nostalgia in particular also has a special hold on Nicklas Sahl as Christmas approaches.

”When I was a child, my guitar teacher always played Hans Dal’s ’Isbjerge’ from Nissebanden i Grønland at the Christmas wrap-ups. To me, it is one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever composed. Therefore, with permission from Hans Dal, I wrote a lyric for it a few years ago – a text about those who shine brightest for me during the Christmas season: those who are closest to me, who have always been there, and whom I might sometimes take a little for granted in an often busy everyday life. I look forward to sharing that message in the beautiful halls,” says Nicklas Sahl.

Both Troels Gustavsen (NOAH) and Pernille Rosendahl have previously toured with the Danish Chamber Orchestra - and with great success. Over the past ten years, the orchestra has taken the journey from DR’s classical concert halls to the country's largest venues and stages in audience-loved collaborations with some of Denmark's most famous pop and rock artists.

It is the first time that the Danish Chamber Orchestra presents the Christmas Show with four soloists – four voices, each with its own sound and its own interpretation of the fairy tale we all bring with us from childhood and which unfolds again and again throughout life. There is no doubt that the concert series will be an early musical Christmas gift to share with those you care about.

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