Classical Music Playlist

Programming Highlights

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

11 - Midnight

11:46

Eduard Tubin - Estonian Dance Suite Neeme Jarvi, conductor Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Bis 337 Buy

11:38

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 19 Mari Kodama, piano PentaTone 304 Buy

11:31

Traditional - I wonder as I wander; Bring a torch, Jeannette, Isabelle John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers Collegium  503 Buy

11:09

Peter Tchaikovsky - Romeo and Juliet: Fantasy Overture Daniele Gatti, conductor Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Conifer 51343 Buy

11:06

John Williams - Memoirs of a Geisha Julie Scolnik, flute Franziska Huhn, harp SELF PROD 296 Buy

11:01

Traditional - Three Danish Christmas Songs Martin Neary, conductor National Philharmonic Orchestra Michala Petri, recorder RCA 60060 Buy

10 - 11 PM

10:25

Antonin Dvorak - String Quartet No. 5 in f minor Prague String Quartet DG 429 193 Buy

10:16

J.S. Bach - Prelude and Fugue No. 8 in e-flat minor Angela Hewitt, piano Hyperion 67301 Buy

9 - 10 PM

9:42	Jean Sibelius - Symphony No. 5 in E-flat Osmo Vanska, conductor Lahti Symphony Orchestra Bis 1287 Buy

9:40	Steven Sametz - Noel canon Chanticleer Teldec 94563 Buy

9:26	Kamran Ince - Arches Kevin Stalheim, conductor Present Music Argo 455151 Buy

9:15	Francis Poulenc - Four Christmas Motets Ivars Taurins, conductor Tafelmusik Chamber Choir CBC 1155 Buy

8 - 9 PM

8:33	Frederic Chopin - Piano Concerto No. 1 Zubin Mehta, conductor Vienna Philharmonic Lang Lang, piano DG 11654 Buy

8:13	Franz Joseph Haydn - String Quartet No. 64 Cleveland Quartet Telarc 80415 Buy

8:00	Maurice Ravel - Sonatine Heidi Lowy, piano Bayer 100344 Buy

6 - 7 PM

6:48	Saint-Saens - Africa Sakari Oramo, conductor City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Stephen Hough hyperion 67331 Buy

6:42	Healey Willan - The Three Kings Luther College Nordic Choir Luther  Buy

6:30	Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis James Judd, conductor New Zealand Symphony Orchestra Naxos 555867 Buy

6:23	Gustav Holst - In the Bleak Midwinter Paul Hillier, conductor Theatre of Voices Harmonia Mundi 907079 Buy

6:20	Ludwig van Beethoven - March Netherlands Wind Ensemble Philips 472678 Buy

6:14	The Writer's Almanac

6:07	traditional - What Child Is This? members of the Minneapolis Philharmonic Full Harmonic 3618 Buy

6:03	Isaac Albeniz - Iberia: Triana Jesus Lopez-Cobos, conductor Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra Telarc 80470 Buy

5 - 6 PM

5:53	Engelbert Humperdinck - Prayer from Hansel and Gretel Leonard Slatkin, conductor Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra RCA 5959 Buy

5:48	Pietro Yon - Gesu Bambino Giovanni De Chiaro, guitar Centaur 2101 Buy

5:32	Dag Wiren - Serenade for Strings: Alla marcia Neville Marriner, conductor Academy of St Martin in the Fields Argo 417132 Buy

5:30	Erik Satie - Gnossienne No. 1 Jeremy Jouve, guitar Reference 128 Buy

5:07	Emmanuel Chabrier - Espana Erich Kunzel, conductor Cincinnati Pops Telarc 80170 Buy

5:01	Otto Kotilainen - The sparrow on Christmas morning Osmo Vanska, conductor Lahti Symphony Orchestra Bis 947 Buy

4 - 5 PM

4:57	Praetorius - Von Himmel Hoch Netherlands Bach Society Channel Classics 15198 Buy

4:43	Johann Hertel - Trumpet Concerto No. 1 Elgar Howarth, conductor London Philharmonic Orchestra Hakan Hardenberger, trumpet Philips 426311 Buy

4:34	Mozart - Symphony No. 22 Adam Fischer, conductor Danish National Chamber Orchestra DaCapo 220542 Buy

4:20	George Gershwin - Concerto in F Andre Previn, conductor Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra Andre Previn Philips 412 611 Buy

4:20	Traditional - Icy December Rachel Van Voorhees, harp Centaur 2209 Buy

4:14	Composers Datebook

4:10	Vince Guaraldi - Skating Copper Street Brass self-produced  Buy

4:00	Ralph Vaughan Williams - English Folk Song Suite Adrian Boult, conductor London Symphony Orchestra EMI 47218 Buy

3 - 4 PM

3:54	Harold Darke - In the Bleak Midwinter David Wilcocks, conductor Choir of King's College, Cambridge EMI 63179 Buy

3:34	Richard Strauss - Duet Concertino Gerard Schwarz, conductor Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Kenneth Munday, bassoon David Shifrin, clarinet Nonesuch 79018 Buy

3:30	Flory Jagoda - Hanuka Voice of the Turtle Titanic 159 Buy

3:30	Gustaf Nordqvist - Jul, Jul, Stralande Jul Magnum Chorum MPR 20111 Buy

3:19	George Frideric Handel - The Harmonious Blacksmith Earl Wild, piano Sony 62036 Buy

3:04	Edvard Grieg - Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 Osmo Vanska, conductor Minnesota Orchestra MPR 100203-12 Buy

3:00	Rick Sowash - A Christmas Ceremony for flute and cello Betty Braunstein, flute Josh Aerie, cello RSP 11 Buy

2 - 3 PM

2:00	Performance Today

1 - 2 PM

1:00	Performance Today

Noon - 1 PM

12:55

Celedonio Romero - Suite madrilena Pepe Romero, guitar DG 17475 Buy

12:42

George Frideric Handel - Concerto Grosso No. 1; op. 6 I Musici Philips 422370 Buy

12:37

Mark Winemiller - Silent Night Shelly Winemiller, conductor Bella Voce Young Women's Choir MPR 20122 Buy

12:35

Traditional - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks/Two-Part Invention Harry Christophers, conductor The Sixteen Collins 13002 Buy

12:32

Aaron Copland - Midsummer nocturne Michael Landrum, piano Dorian 92158 Buy

12:29

Alec Rowley - Nocturne No. 5 Michael Landrum, piano Dorian 92158 Buy

12:23

Claude Debussy - Nocturne in D flat Michael Landrum, piano Dorian 92158 Buy

12:10

Darius Milhaud - Winter Concertino Okku Kamu, conductor New Stockholm Chamber Orchestra Christian Lindberg, trombone Bis 348 Buy

12:04

Traditional - Christmas Medley Jeannette Sorrell, conductor Apollo's Fire Sandra Simon, soprano Koch 7582 Buy

11 - Noon

11:50

Arnold Bax - Oboe Quintet Pamela Woods, oboe, conductor Audobon Quartet Telarc 80205 Buy

11:39

Maurice Ravel - Piano Concerto in G: Adagio assai Riccardo Chailly, conductor Gewandhaus Orchestra Stefano Bollani, piano London 4764832 Buy

11:37

John Gardner - Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day Dale Warland, conductor The Dale Warland Singers Gothic 49208 Buy

11:35

Traditional English - Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day; arr: David Willcocks Neville Marriner, conductor Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chorus Philips 442141 Buy

11:27

Antonio Vivaldi - Flute Concerto No. 4 Jorg-Michael Schwarz, conductor Rebel Matthias Maute, flute Bridge 9377 Buy

11:23

Claude Debussy - Nocturne in D flat Michael Landrum, piano Dorian 92158 Buy

11:09

Darius Milhaud - Le Carnaval d'Aix Georges Pretre, conductor Monte Carlo National Opera Orchestra Michel Beroff, piano EMI 69854 Buy

11:01

Morten Lauridsen - Midwinter Songs: Like Snow; She Tells Her Love While Half Asleep; Mid-Winter Waking Matthew Culloton, conductor The Singers Singers 3297 Buy

10 - 11 AM

10:52

Ludwig van Beethoven - Variations on an Original Theme Vladimir Feltsman, piano Sony 44589 Buy

10:46

Sergei Prokofiev - Winter Bonfire: Allegro giusto Jose Serebrier, conductor Scottish Chamber Orchestra ASV 760 Buy

10:44

John Goss - See amid the winter's snow David Willcocks, conductor Choir of King's College, Cambridge Simon Preston, organ London/Decca 5302 Buy

10:39

Wayne Barlow - The Winter's Past Michael Barrett, conductor Brooklyn Philharmonic Humbert Lucarelli, oboe Koch 7187 Buy

10:05

Claude Debussy - The Toybox (La boite a joujoux) Jun Markl, conductor Lyon National Orchestra Naxos 572568 Buy

10:01

Franz Schubert - Piano Sonata in B flat: Scherzo Laif Ove Andsnes, piano EMI 57901 Buy

9 - 10 AM

9:51	Johann Sebastian Bach - Flute Sonata in C, BWV 1033 Irena Grafenauer, f et al Philips 422061 Buy

9:47	Brian Holmes - The Shepherd and the King Philip Brunelle, conductor VocalEssence Clarion 939 Buy

9:41	Antonin Dvorak - Slavonic Dance No. 6 Rafael Kubelik, conductor Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra DG 419056 Buy

9:41	Traditional - Christmas Medley George Guest, conductor Choir of St John's College, Cambridge London/Decca 421022 Buy

9:10	Domenico Cimarosa - Sinfonia Concertante Academy of St Martin in the Fields Aurele Nicolet, flute Heinz Holliger, oboe Philips 416359 Buy

9:04	Traditional - Christmas Medley Philadelphia Brass Ensemble Sony 7033 Buy

8 - 9 AM

8:59	Richard Strauss - Four Last Songs: Beim Schlafengehen Karl Bohm, conductor Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra Lisa Della Casa, s London 425959 Buy

8:53	Jule Styne - Peter Pan: Tender Shepherd Kim Robertson, harp et al Gourd 112 Buy

8:45	Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 8: 4th mvt Riccardo Muti, conductor Philadelphia Orchestra EMI 69785 Buy

8:41	Traditional - I know where I'm going John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers Collegium 120 Buy

8:35	Franz Josef Haydn - Symphony No. 45, "Farewell": 3rd mvt Charles Mackarras, conductor Orchestra of St. Luke's Telarc 80156 Buy

8:31	Frederic Chopin - The Maiden's Wish Benjamin Grosvenor, piano London/Decca 4783206 Buy

8:22	Franz Schubert - Ave Maria Massimo Paris, conductor Los Romeros DG 17474 Buy

8:17	Benjamin Britten - Simple Symphony: Playful Pizzicato William Boughton, conductor English String Orchestra Nimbus 5025 Buy

8:15	Composers Datebook

8:10	James Sclater - What Sweeter Music James Morrow, conductor University of Texas Chamber Singers Koch 7698 Buy

8:04	Carl Nielsen - Maskarade: Overture Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Sony 46668 Buy

7 - 8 AM

7:54	Darius Milhaud - Scaramouche Katia & Marielle Labeque, p Philips 426284 Buy

7:47	Antonio Salieri - Concerto for flute and oboe: 3rd mvt Neville Marriner, conductor Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields Philips 416359 Buy

7:42	Antonio de Salazar - Tarara tarara qui yo soy Antoniyo Olivier Fortin, conductor Masques Analekta 9908 Buy

7:33	Robert Schumann - Symphony No. 2: 4th movement Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor Cleveland Orchestra London/Decca 421439 Buy

7:31	Johann Michael Bach - In dulci jubilo Webb Wiggins, organ Dorian 90198 Buy

7:15	Gabriel Faure - Masques and Bergamasques Neville Marriner, conductor Academy of St Martin in the Fields Argo 410552 Buy

7:09	Johannes Brahms - Symphony No. 1: 3rd movement Daniel Barenboim, conductor Chicago Symphony Orchestra Erato 95191 Buy

7:06	Max Reger - Maria Wiegenlied (Mary's Cradle Song) Roland Pontinen, piano Bis 1164 Buy

7:04	Christmas Music - Christmas Crackers No. 3 Vermont Symphony Orchestra Brass Quintet Albany 985 Buy

6 - 7 AM

6:50	Ludwig van Beethoven - Symphony No. 7: 3rd movement Riccardo Muti, conductor Philadelphia Orchestra EMI 69785 Buy

6:45	Daniel Kantor - NIght of Silence Philip Brunelle, conductor VocalEssence Clarion 939 Buy

6:35	Malcolm Arnold - English Dances: First Set Bryden Thomson, conductor Philharmonia Orchestra Chandos 8867 Buy

6:31	George Frideric Handel - Messiah: And He shall purify John Butt, conductor Dunedin Consort and Players Linn 285 Buy

6:25	Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 31 "Hornsignal": 3rd movement Charles Mackerras, conductor Orchestra of St. Luke's Telarc 80156 Buy

6:21	Traditional - Still, Still, Still John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers Collegium 512 Buy

6:16	The Writer's Almanac

6:10	Ralph Vaughan Williams - Fantasia on "Greensleeves" Eaken Piano Trio Naxos 554099 Buy

6:07	Traditional - What Child is This? Cantus Cantus 1204 Buy

6:04	Johann Sebastian Bach - Flute Sonata: Siciliano Irena Grafenauer, flute Maria Graf, harp Philips 422061 Buy

5 - 6 AM

5:52	Peter Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 5: Waltz Charles Dutoit, conductor Montreal Symphony Orchestra London/Decca 425503 Buy

5:44	Traditional - O Jesulein suss; Ich steh an deiner Krippen hier; Silent Night Ensemble Amarcord Apollon 10101 Buy

5:36	David Popper - Devotion (Andacht) Wendy Warner, cello Cedille 111 Buy

5:26	Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - Sonata for Bassoon and Cello Klaus Thunemann, bassoon Philips 422390 Buy

5:15	Christmas Music - Unto us is born; While shepherds; The First Nowell David Willcocks, conductor Choir of King's College, Cambridge London/Decca 430146 Buy

5:06	Peter Warlock - Capriol Suite Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Delos 3132 Buy

5:01	Johann Strauss, Jr. - Artists Quadrille Erich Kunzel, conductor Cincinnati Pops Telarc 80314 Buy

4 - 5 AM

4:46	Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 14 "Moonlight" Artur Rubinstein, piano RCA 5674 Buy

4:31	Traditional French - Five French Carols Pierre Cao, conductor Arsys Bourgogne Naive 5319 Buy

4:24	Dmitri Shostakovich - Festive Overture Gustavo Dudamel, conductor Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra DG 17097 Buy

4:19	George Frideric Handel - Semele: Where E'er You Walk John Rutter, conductor City of London Sinfonia Nicholas Daniel, oboe American Gramophone 590 Buy

4:06	Giacomo Puccini - 3 Minuets Jean Jacques Kantorow, conductor Orchestra of the Auvergne Denon 3871 Buy

4:01	Traditional - Infant Holy, Infant Lowly Barlow Bradford, conductor Utah Chamber Artists Clarion 928 Buy

3 - 4 AM

3:28	Antonin Dvorak - Violin Concerto Leonard Slatkin, conductor Philharmonia Orchestra Uto Ughi, violin RCA 60431 Buy

3:23	Carlos Salzedo - Concert Variations on "Adeste Fideles" Judy Loman, harp Naxos 572510 Buy

3:11	Franz Liszt - Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 Tamas Pal, conductor Szeged Symphony Orchestra Hungaroton 12721 Buy

3:06	John Rutter - Christmas Night John Rutter, conductor Cambridge Singers Collegium 106 Buy

3:01	Bengt Hallberg - Blacksmith's Tune Jorma Panula, conductor Scandinavian Brass Ensemble Bis 265 Buy

2 - 3 AM

2:53	Traditional - Veni, veni Emmanuel Joe Miller, conductor Westminster Choir WCC 1009 Buy

2:29	Amy Beach - Theme and Variations Carol Wincenc, flute Kevin Lawrence, violin Carolyn Stuart, violin Sheila Brown, viola Brooks Whitehouse, cello Bridge 9373 Buy

2:14	Richard Strauss - Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks George Szell, conductor Cleveland Orchestra Sony 36721 Buy

2:06	Isaac Albeniz - Mallorca Stephen Marchionda, guitar Dabringhaus 9031739 Buy

2:01	Stephen Paulus - This Endris Night Dale Warland, conductor Dale Warland Singers Gothic 49208 Buy

1 - 2 AM

1:50	Medley - Christmas Medley Andrew Lawrence-King, harp Ambitus 97812 Buy

1:29	Francois Couperin - The Nations: France European Baroque Soloists Denon 4408 Buy

1:23	Andrew Lloyd Webber - Requiem: Pie Jesu Barry Wordsworth, conductor Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Julian Lloyd Webber, cello Philips 426484 Buy

1:15	Gabriel Faure - Pavane Neville Marriner, conductor Academy of St Martin in the Fields EMI 66646 Buy

1:06	Antonio Vivaldi - Christmas Concerto Angele Dubeau, conductor La Pieta Analekta 8730 Buy

1:01	Franz Schmidt - Notre Dame: Intermezzo Herbert von Karajan, conductor Berlin Philharmonic DG 415856 Buy

Midnight - 1 AM

12:55

Adolph Adam - O Holy Night Kurt Herbert Adler, conductor National Philharmonic Orchestra Luciano Pavarotti, tenor London 458000 Buy

12:50

Henry Purcell - Trumpet Tune Michael Laird Brass Ensemble Peter Hurford, organ Argo 433451 Buy

12:09

Antonin Dvorak - Cello Concerto Emmanuel Krivine, conductor Lyon National Orchestra Anne Gastinel, cello Naive 4969 Buy

12:06

Vladimir Rebikov - Christmas Tree: Waltz Gavin Sutherland, conductor Royal Ballet Sinfonia Naxos 572744 Buy

12:01

John Playford - Bear's Dance/Prelude Apollo's Banquet Harmonia Mundi 907186 Buy