Wij komen tezamen (instrumentaal)
Veni, veni Emmanuel
Kind’ren zwijgt zo moogdi horen
Valasus
O doe die Rose van Jericho
Op enen kerstnacht
Sinfonia (uit Weihnachtsoratorium van J.S. Bach)
Maria die zoude naar Bethlehem gaan
Sint Jozef ging al treuren
Nu zijt wellekome
Laet ons met verheughen springhen
In ‘t stalleke van Bethlehem
Gloria in excelsis Deo
Hoe leit dit kindeke
Ik kniel aan uwe kribbe neer
Er is een roos ontsprongen
O herders, laat uw bokken en schapen
Er is een kindeke geboren op aard
In dulci jubilo
‘t Is geboren het Godd’lijk kind
Klein, klein Jezuke
Kling klokje klingelingeling
Stille nacht
Midden in de winternacht
A la berline postiljon!
Kerstverhaal verteld door Dieuwertje Blok

Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam is a classical voice training programme specialising in opera, accessible to all children and young people from 4 years old who enjoy singing. Its was founded in 2005, roughly ten years ago, and immediately after the idea to perform a Nativity play on a yearly basis arose. In these performances, all students would be performing simultaneously. Ton Koopman's arrangement of Christmas songs for the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra from a few years before were the starting point, musically. The first performance of the play was accompanied by only a piano, with angels, sheep and shepherds performing and singing alongside Mary and Joseph. It proved to be an immediate success, and thus it evolved into a full evening's entertainment.

This year's performance consists of Old Dutch and Western European Christmas music, arranged and directed by Ton Koopman, especially for the Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Around 350 students from the Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam, ranging from 4 to 21 years, perform the pieces at the highest level, accompanied by the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.

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Recording: December 2015 & September 2017, Waalse Kerk Amsterdam