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<\/a>Dietrich Henschel<\/a> and ensemble unitedberlin<\/a>, under the direction of conductor Vladimir Jurowski have released a double CD entitled X-Mas Contemporary<\/a><\/i>, featuring the premiere recordings of twelve holiday-inspired works.<\/p>\nWhat does Christmas mean to you?<\/strong><\/em> X-MAS CONTEMPORARY – The Christmas Carol of the 21st Century Works by The CD release will coincide with concert performances in Berlin, Rotterdam and Dusseldorf in December, 2019. The CD is available on iTunes<\/a>. The CD has earned<\/a> several<\/a> positive<\/a> reviews<\/a> already<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dietrich Henschel and ensemble unitedberlin, under the direction of conductor Vladimir Jurowski have released a double CD entitled X-Mas Contemporary, featuring the premiere recordings of twelve holiday-inspired works. What does Christmas mean to you? Baritone Dietrich Henschel asked twelve composers from different countries and cultures to create a work for voice and ensemble and to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3880"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3893,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3880\/revisions\/3893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nBaritone Dietrich Henschel asked twelve composers from different countries and cultures to create a work for voice and ensemble and to use musical means to describe what they associate with Christmas. It was up to them whether religion or tradition played a role. Even criticism and satire were possible. As expected, the answers are all very different.<\/p>\n
\n12 composers write 12 Christmas songs of the 21st century.<\/p>\n
\nKarim Al Zand<\/em>
\nDetlev Glanert<\/em>
\nManfred Trojahn<\/em>
\nJose-Maria Sanchez-Verdu<\/em>
\nVanessa Lann<\/em>
\nArno Waschk<\/em>
\nOlga Rayeva<\/em>
\nJamie Man<\/em>
\nMich\u00e8le Reverdy<\/em>
\nAnnette Schl\u00fcnz<\/em>
\nJobst Liebrecht<\/em>
\nMatan Porat<\/em><\/p>\n