Music for Christmas, ranging from Renaissance dances, French Noëls, early American carols and the original version of “Silent Night” (in waltz time) to Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker” Suite and one of the loveliest Christmas works of the 20th century, Ottorino Respighi’s “Laud for the Nativity.”
7-9 p.m. EST
2200-0000 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
http://wdce.org
Michael Praetorius: “Terpsichore” (selections)
Doron Sherwin, cornetto
Julien Martin, recorder
Capriccio Stravagante Renaissance Orchestra/Skip Sempé
(Paradizio)
Michel Corrette: “Symphonie de Noël” No. 6 in A major
La Fantasia/Rien Voskulien
(Brilliant Classics)
Tchaikovsky: “The Nutcracker” Suite
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic/Vasily Petrenko
(Avie)
18th- & 19th-century American carols:
traditional: “Fulfillment”
traditional: “A Christmas Hymn”
traditional: “Shepherds, rejoice” (”Auld Lang Syne”)
traditional: “The Star of Bethlehem” (“Bonnie Doone”)
traditional: “A Virgin most pure”
traditional: “Lullay, thou little tiny child”
traditional: “Hush! my babe, lie still and slumber”
William Billings: “Boston”
traditional: “Adeste fidelis”
traditional: “Lovely Vine”
Lowell Mason: “Joy to the World”
Boston Camerata/Joël Cohen
(Erato)
Franz Gruber: “Stille Nacht”
Charles Daniels, tenor
Stephen Charlesworth, bass-baritone
Jakob Lindberg, guitar
Taverner Consort/Andrew Parrott
(Warner Classics)
Ottorino Respighi: “Lauda per la nativitá del Signore”
Yeree Suh, soprano
Kristine Larissa Funkhauser, mezzo-soprano
Krystian Adam, tenor
Rundfunkchor Berlin
Polyphonia Ensemble Berlin/Māris Sirmais
(Carus)
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