Musical events in Saxony are of great authenticity, combining art with architecture and landscape in a unique way. Listening to Bach's Christmas Oratorio at the Thomaskirche church in Leipzig, you absorb the music in the place where it was first performed. A Baroque concert in the Dresden Zwinger takes place on the festival ground of the Saxon electors and kings. Listening to a choral concert in a quarry in the Elbe Sandstone Mountains, you stand on the material of which the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin was built.