Your daily classical soundtrack
Episode m001t9yr, broadcast at Thursday 18th December 2025, 7:00pm, and Monday 18th December 2023, 7:00pm.
“Take time out with a 30-minute soundscape of classical music.”
Track listing
- 0:00 – In dulci jubilo
- Composer Michael Praetorius
- Ensemble Gabrieli Consort
- Conductor Paul McCreesh
- 5:19 – Ding Dong Merrily on High (Arr. J. Rutter for brass ensemble) (track 126, Christmas Brass)
- Music Arranger John Rutter
- Composer Trad.
- Ensemble Vega Brass Ensemble
- 8:47 – Winter Morning in Istanbul (track 16, Troy Sonata)
- Performer Fazil Say
- 12:11 – Three Black Kings: No. 1, King of the Magi (track 5, Duke Ellington: Black, Brown, and Beige)
- Featured Artist JoAnn Falletta
- Composer Duke Ellington
- Performer Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra
- 16:48 – Away in a Manger (track 1001, The Swingle Singers Unwrapped)
- Ensemble The Swingle Singers
- Composer William James Kirkpatrick
- Composer Wendy Nieper
- 20:39 – Vivaldi Recomposed: Winter 1
- Composer Antonio Vivaldi
- Performer Daniel Hope
- Composer Max Richter
- Orchestra Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin
- Conductor André de Ridder
- 23:38 – White Landscapes, Op. 47a; (2nd mvt) (track 8, Yoshimatsu: Piano Concerto etc.)
- Composer Takashi Yoshimatsu
- Performer John Barrow
- Performer Jonathan Price
- Performer Kate Wilson
- Ensemble Manchester Camerata
- Conductor Sachio Fujioka
- 26:54 – The Saviour of the World is Born (track 9, Canite Tuba, Music for Advent and Christmas)
- Composer Gustav Holst
- Ensemble Onyx Brass
- 28:24 – Ceremony of Carols; Deo Gracias (track 7, Gloria In Excelsis)
- Composer Benjamin Britten
- Performer John Marson
- Conductor David Lepine
- Choir Coventry Cathedral Boys Choir