Letters

Especially composed for the Choral Scholars this lively carol for choir, orchestra and violin, by Irish composer Eoghan Desmond, evokes the joyful play of Christmas in the lines ‘Be all merry in this house/Exultet celum laudibus!’.

Here we meet Jörg Widmann as soloist, conductor and composer. With his piece Con brio, premiered in 2008, he pays a vibrant tribute to Beethoven in general and his Seventh Symphony in particular.