Octavians:|A Light Is Coming

The Ensemble Octavians – all are former singers with the boys” choir of the Jena Philharmonie – have recorded a musical Christmas gift with their current CD “A Light Is Coming” that offers well-known and unknown songs from the festival of festivals. The young singers noticed in their concerts that there is a special synergy that emerges between themselves and their audience, particularly during these selected arrangements – they subsequently put together a personal programme in the form of this CD repertoire. It combines into a poignant whole the mysticism of the pending birth of Jesus with the wonder at the child in the manger, and finally, the exuberant joy in connection with this “birthday party”. From moving verses highlighting the Christmas festival, to bible texts set to music, to rather secular contemplations – the entire spectrum of Christmas vocal music is represented here. The fact that the pieces are arranged for up to eight-voice men’s choir allows us to enjoy old favourites such as “Maria durch ein Dornwald ging” or ‘stille Nacht, heilige Nacht” in a completely new way.