In the organizer's words:

As in the previous year, SCHOLA HEIDELBERG spans six centuries of music to bring the pre-Christmas season to life.

The program includes psalm settings that were characteristic of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, whether in Latin, German, English, French or even Hebrew: Salomone Rossi, a colleague and friend of the great Monteverdi, composed the biblical psalms in the polyphonic style of the Renaissance for the services of his Jewish congregation in Mantua - an absolute rarity in music history.

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy was also a Jewish-Christian crossover artist. Adspice Domine for male choir, cello and organ demonstrates that he was also an expert in ancient vocal music. Psalms and other biblical texts also formed the starting point for compositions in the 20th century, such as Arnold Schönberg's De profundis,and continue to do so to this day. But we return to earlier epochs via Johann Sebastian Bach, Henry Purcell and Cipriano de Rore and conclude the Advent concert with one of the most beautiful Advent chorales, O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf.