Today, Wednesday, December 4th, Reinhard Reiskopf and band will be performing a “Christmas Concert” from “Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer” to “Winter Wonderland” to “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from 7:30 p.m. in the Old Depot in Mistelbach the Christmas festival. Further information and maps can be found at the Alten Depot Mistelbach on 02572/3955, e-mail office@altesdepot.at and www.altesdepot.at.
“We’re telling you!” is the motto today, Wednesday, December 4th, at the Kulturhaus Prellenkirchen, where Da Blechhauf’n will be playing from 7:30 p.m. Further information and maps are available from the Prellenkirchen municipal office on 02145/2202, e-mail marktgemeinde@prellenkirchen.at and www.prellenkirchen.gv.at or www.ticketjet.at.
Also today, Wednesday, December 4th, the Advent concerts in the Collegiate Church of Göttweig will continue with the Military Music of Lower Austria. Tomorrow, Thursday, December 5th, there will be the Muckendorfer Saitenklang, on Friday, December 6th, the Perschlingtaler Singers’ Round, on Saturday, December 7th, SoundAccount and on Sunday, December 8th, the men’s Xang Loosdorf and the women’s Xang Neulengbach. It starts at 2:30 p.m.; Further information and maps at 02732/85581-0, e-mail info@stiftgoettweig.at and www.stiftgoettweig.at.
Today, Wednesday, December 4th, from 4 p.m. and tomorrow, Thursday, December 5th, from 10 a.m., Alain Reynaud and the Luxembourg Philharmonic will be playing their musical instruments in “Claricello” for children aged six and over in the stage in the courtyard in St. Pölten come to life. The Conor Mallon Unearthed Project and the Cathie Ryan Band will also be taking part in the 27th “Guinness Irish Christmas Festival” here on Monday, December 9th and Tuesday, December 10th from 7:30 p.m. Further information at 02742/908050, e-mail office@buehneimhof.at and www.buehneimhof.at; For tickets call 02742/908080-600 and email karten@buhneimhof.at.
In the Festspielhaus St. Pölten, the Studio Keck theater association and a string quartet from the Tonkunstler Orchestra will be performing staged chamber music for children aged four and over tomorrow, Thursday, December 5th, from 9 a.m., 10:15 a.m. and 3 p.m. with excerpts from Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker”. heard for years. On Friday, December 6th, the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain will be a guest at the Festspielhaus St. Pölten from 7:30 p.m. with “It’s Christmas Time!” Further information and tickets are available from the Festspielhaus St. Pölten on 02742/908080-600, e-mail karten@festspielhaus.at and www.festspielhaus.at.
Tomorrow, Thursday, December 5th and Friday, December 6th, Die Seer will be celebrating their “end of the city” in the auditorium of Grafenegg Castle from 7:30 p.m. On Saturday, December 7th, the Christmas concert here will be all about the Baroque era, when the Tonkunstler Orchestra under Laurence Cummings will perform music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Arcangelo Corelli and Georg Friedrich Handel from 6:30 p.m.; The soloists are the British soprano Nardus Williams and the Australian oboist Emma Black. On Sunday, December 8th, the 13th “Lower Austrian Advent Singing” will take place in the auditorium from 5 p.m. with Judith Mahler, the Haag and Ybbsitz choirs, the Danube Brass Ensemble and Ö-streich. Further information and tickets at 01/5868383, e-mail tickets@grafenegg.com and www.grafenegg.com.
At the Congress Casino Baden tomorrow, Thursday, December 5th, from 7:30 p.m., the Viennese songwriter duo Christoph & Lollo will give life a fundamentally optimistic touch with “all good” in twelve new songs, which will then be immediately dismantled again. On Sunday, December 8th, Michael Havlicek, Nicole Lubinger, Clemens Kerschbaumer, Gregor Eisenhut, Verena Scheitz, Laszlo Gyüker, Herbert Fischerauer and others will be performing as “Christkinds Boten” from 4 p.m. in a benefit concert from classical music to traditional local Christmas literature from “Art on Wheels”. Further information and tickets can be found at Congress Casino Baden on 02252/44496-444, e-mail tickets.ccb@casinos.at and www.ccb.at.
Meanwhile, at the Theater am Steg in Baden, the next “Jazz Café Project” opens its doors tomorrow, Thursday, December 5th – this time Tres Caballeros play jazz with blues and folk influences. The two trombonists Alois Eberl and Markus Geiselhart will follow on Tuesday, December 10th, devoting their trombonet to original arrangements by JJ Johnson and Kai Winding. It starts at 7 p.m.; Admission: free donation; For more information, contact the municipality of Baden on 02252/86800-522 and e-mail cornelia.znoy@baden.gv.at.
On Friday, December 6th, a funk jam session with Alfred Lackner, Billie Steirisch and others is scheduled at the Theater am Steg in Baden under the motto “Funky Night” from 8 p.m.; Maps below www.eventbrite.com. The jazz swing band Sax & Pepper will also be playing the biggest Christmas hits such as “White Christmas”, “Frosty the Snowman”, “I ‘ll Be Home for Christmas”, “Winter Wonderland”, “Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” etc. Further information and tickets are available from the Beethovenhaus Baden on 02252/86800-630 and e-mail tickets@beethovenhaus-baden.at.
With Sigrid and Joe Sailer in Bruck an der Leitha, the Fritz Pauer Legacy Quintet will play the “African Impressions” by the composer, who died in 2012, on Friday, December 6th, from 8 p.m. Further information and maps at 02162/65768, e-mail freiraum@schule.at and www.kulturon.at.
Arcangelo Corelli’s Concerto grosso in G minor op. 6/8, Johann Sebastian Bach’s Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C major BWV 1066 as well as the Concerto grosso in C major HWV 318 (“Alexander’s Feast”) and the first suite in F- Major HWV 348 from George Frideric Handel’s “Water Music” is performed by the Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester Mannheim under the direction of Paul Meyer will perform on Friday, December 6th, from 7:30 p.m. and on Saturday, December 7th, from 6 p.m. in Walpersdorf Castle. Further information and tickets at 0677/61969242, e-mail tickets@schlosskonzerte-walpersdorf.at and www.schlosskonzerte-walpersdorf.at.
Baroque music from Italy and Christmas folklore includes a concert by the Ars Nova Musicae ensemble on Saturday, December 7th, from 6 p.m. in the Kulturfabrik Hainburg. The highlight of the evening is the Christmas cantata “Navidad Nuestra” by the Argentinian composer Ariel Ramírez with Christian Bakanic on the accordion; the musical direction is in the hands of the Colombian conductor Roger Díaz-Cajamarca. For more information and tickets, contact the Hainburger Haydngesellschaft on 0664/73616493, e-mail hainburger@haydngesellschaft.at and www.haydngesellschaft.at.
Also on Saturday, December 7th, the concert “Schnöde Bescherung 2024 – Praise the Lord!!” with Edi Jäger & The Godfathers of Advent is on the schedule at the Wald4tler Hoftheater in Pürbach from 7:30 p.m. Further information and tickets are available from the Wald4tler Hoftheater Pürbach on 02853/78469, e-mail office@hoftheater.at and www.hoftheater.at.
The Schick Sisters will celebrate “A Sisters Christmas” with their favorite Christmas songs at the Tischlerei Melk cultural workshop on Saturday, December 7th, from 8 p.m. Further information and maps are available from Wachau Kultur Melk GmbH. at 02752/54060, e-mail office@wachaukulturmelk.at and www.wachaukulturmelk.at.
On Saturday, December 7th, “World Choral Day” will also be celebrated in the parish church of St. Stephan in Baden from 8 p.m. In addition to Margit Fussi on the organ and Alexander Cachée on the piano, verCHORxt, Mach 4, the Thermenchor, Vox Humana, the Leobersdorf choir, the Badener Kammerchor, the Leesdorfer Singkreis, the St. Georgs-Chor as well as the Eötvös Jubileumi Korus and the Stellaris Media Korus from Budapest; musical direction: Wolfgang Ziegler. Admission: free donation; For more information, contact the cultural department of the municipality of Baden on 02252/86800-521, e-mail maria.peschka@baden.gv.at and www.baden.at.
In the Cinema Paradiso Baden, on Saturday, December 7th, from 3 p.m. and on Wednesday, December 11th, from 9 a.m., a picture book cinema turns “Duck is Stuck”, “Our Own Christmas Story” and “Yeti Pleki Plek” into a children’s book. Cinema concert with Nicolai Gruninger and Marc Bruckner. Further information and tickets are available from Cinema Paradiso Baden on 02252/256225 and www.cinema-paradiso.at/baden.
An artist gala in favor of “Licht ins Dunkel” will take place at the Berghotel Tulbingerkogel on Saturday, December 7th, from 5 p.m. with Cornelius Obonya, Willi Dussmann, Benny King & friends, Werner Auer, Mario Aiwasian, Beatrice Turin, the Janoska Junior Ensemble, Caro Hemmelmayer, Dreiklang, Herbert Frei, Caro Schell and Christin van Geuze. For more information and tickets, call 0699/11351177, email mvm@donaukultur.com and www.donaukultur.com.
The Christmas Saxophones will be giving an Advent concert in the meeting room of the Bruck an der Leitha town hall on Saturday, December 7th from 6 p.m. For more information, contact the Anton Stadler Music School Bruck on 02162/65878-20, e-mail musikschule@bruckleitha.gv.at and https://antonstadler-musikschule.at.
The Unique Filled Peppers will play a concert at the Barnabitenkolleg Mistelbach on Saturday, December 7th from 7 p.m. For more information, contact the Mistelbach Cultural Office on 02572/2515-5262 and www.mistelbach.at.
A concert by the St. Martin choir with guests will follow on Sunday, December 8th, from 5 p.m. in the parish church of St. Martin in Mistelbach. Further information at 02572/2730, e-mail info@kantorei.at and www.kantorei.at.
With compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Pjotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Antonín Dvořák as well as classical and traditional Christmas sounds, ensemble members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra will perform a Christmas concert on Sunday, December 8th, from 4 and 5:30 p.m. in the ballroom at Schloss Hof. Further information and maps at 02285/20000, e-mail office@schlosshof.at and www.schlosshof.at.
“Classic Meets Soul” is the motto of the Christmas concert “Christmas Spirit” with Cesár Sampson and Alexandra Reinprecht, which takes place as part of the St. Pölten “Master Concerts” on Sunday, December 8th, from 6:30 p.m. in the Maria Lourdes parish church. Further information and maps at 02742/333-2603, e-mail karten@st-poelten.gv.at and www.close2fan.com or www.meisterkonzerte-stp.at.
In the Kolomanisaal at Melk Abbey, the Melk City Band under Daniela Pinter will perform a “Concert in Advent” on Sunday, December 8th, from 6:30 p.m. For more information and maps, contact Melk Abbey on 02752/555-230, e-mail kultur@stiftmelk.at and www.stiftmelk.at.
Several Advent concerts will take place in the Roman country of Carnuntum on Sunday, December 8th: At 4 p.m., the pop choir Leithatonix will take a musical journey into the past with “Christmas like back then” in the parish church of Hof am Leithagebirge (e-mail leithatonix @gmx.at), from 5 p.m. the Village Voices will be performing in the Rauchwarth parish church (www.village-voices.at), from 5 p.m. the Bruck an der Leitha church choir also invites you to Advent singing in the town parish church of Bruck an der Leitha (e-mail kirchenchor@pfarrebruck.at), from 6 p.m. the town choir and to hear the choir pro musica (www.erzdioezese-wien.at/fischamend).
Finally, Günther Groissböck, accompanied by Florian Krumpöck on the piano, will perform Franz Schubert’s cycle “The Beautiful Müller” as part of the “Bösendorfer Festival” in the casemates of Wiener Neustadt on Tuesday, December 10th, from 6:30 p.m. Further information and maps at 02622/373-933, e-mail infopoint@wiener-neustadt.at and www.webshop-wn.at or www.kasematten-wn.at and www.boesendorfer-wn.at.