The Vokalakademie Berlin and the Prometheus Ensemble performed the Christmas Oratorio under the baton of Frank Markowitsch in a concert for children in Potsdam. Sascha von Donat had arranged Bach’s work for this purpose. The local newpaper was impressed:
The story is narrated in a fascinating and sensitive way. The narrator Matthias Jahrmäker finds the right cheerful-serious tone, which could be accepted by all visitors. The conductor Frank Markowitsch had worked excellently with the Vokalakademie and the Prometheus Ensemble, one could hear a rhythmic pulsating and tranparently singing choir and a rhetorical vivid and dance-like playing orchestra.
The full review can be read here (in German): www.pnn.de
