MUSICAL JOURNEY (A) - A CHRISTMAS MUSICAL TOUR: Austria / Switzerland / Germany
Austria
Vienna - Christkindl Market
Silent Night Chapel, Oberndorf
St. Nicholas and Krampusse, Steyr
Switzerland
Kreuzweg in Einsiedeln - Snow and Ice
Austria
Christmas Shopping in Vienna
Vienna - St. Peter's Church
Switzerland
Sihlsee
Monastery Church, Einsideln
Germany
Bavaria - Collegiate Church, Ottobeuren
Austria
Salzburg and Hallein, Landscapes
Christmas Market, Salzburg / Advent Calendar, Steinbach
Weissensee
Oriental Christmas Crib, Steyr
Vienna - Francesco Bassara: Adoration of the Magi
Christmas Crib, Linz Cathedral
Switzerland
Cupola of the Monastery Church, Einsiedeln
Date of Production: 2011-10-28
Playing Time: 00:57:04
Catalogue Number: 2.110254 UPC: 747313525454
UPC: 747313525454
The Places
The tour starts in Vienna at the Christkindl Market, and other Christmas scenes include the grotesque Krampus masqueraders with St. Nicholas in Steyr. In Switzerland we see the great monastery church at Einsiedeln and in Bavaria the Abbey Church at Ottobeuren. In Austria scenes of Salzburg and its Christmas market are followed by Christmas cribs at Steyr and in the great cathedral at Linz, ending gazing upwards at the great Christmas fresco that decorates the dome of the monastery church at Einsiedeln.
The Music
The music chosen for this tour is principally taken from the works of Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach, including excerpts from the former's Messiah and from two organ concertos, and from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, with the carol "Silent Night" heard in its original setting at the little church in Oberndorf, for which it was written.
