>Not sure what was more crowded this evening – the Christmas Market or the Bach Christmas Oratoria in the cathedral.

We gave the cheap mulled wine stands, festive candle purveyors and sausage-on-a-stick sellers a wide berth and joined the crush in the cathedral.

More folk than you could shake a stick at, but the crowds rapidly thinned out as the varicose vein mob, the ADS crew and the navigationally-challenger mulled wine gang drifted off and we ended up with pretty good possies – back centre.
The Christmas Oratoria isn’t actually a single work like Bach’s other oratorios, but rather 6 oratorios that are traditionally performed on separate occasions between Christmas Eve and Epiphany. More here.

We got all 6 tonight – 3 hours with an interval.

Just like a Springsteen concert, really….

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