Gala Concert
Gala concert in Church of St. Nicholas, 2009© LTM GmbH
The festival concert in St Nicholas’s featured top-class performers: maestro Kurt Masur conducted the Gewandhaus Orchestra and the St Thomas Boys' Choir sang under the direction of its director Georg-Christoph Biller. The evening began solemnly with Beethoven's Egmont Overture, followed by two major choral works in the form of Bach's motet for two four-part choirs "Fürchte dich nicht" and Mendelssohn's eight-part choir "Denn er hat seinen Engeln befohlen über dir", before closing with the Brahms' great Symphony No. 2 in D major.