Expand your horizons with classical music
Episode m001tb29, broadcast at Friday 22nd December 2023, 7:00pm.
“Half an hour of back to back classical music for the festive season, including some familiar favourites by Leroy Anderson and Prokofiev, alongside works by Bach and Poulenc. Producer: Helen Garrison”
Track listing
- 0:00 – Deck The Hall (track 101, A Classic Christmas)
- Composer Trad.
- Music Arranger Paul Weston
- Conductor Alfred Newman
- Orchestra Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra
- 1:09 – Branle de l'officiel (Ding dong! merrily on high) (track 324, Christmas Carols)
- Ensemble Taverner Players
- Conductor Andrew Parrott
- Composer Thoinot Arbeau
- 3:05 – Carol of the Bells (track 101, Christmas Brass)
- Ensemble Septura
- Composer Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych
- Music Arranger Simon Cox
- 4:19 – Little Drummer Boy (track 13, The Greatest Christmas Choral Classics)
- Choir Crouch End Festival Chorus
- Orchestra City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Traditional Czech
- Music Arranger Harry Simeone
- Music Arranger Katherine Davis
- Music Arranger Henry Onorati
- Conductor David Temple
- 7:19 – O magnum mysterium (4 Motets, No.1) (track 401, Christmas)
- Composer Francis Poulenc
- Ensemble VOCES8
- 10:05 – Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV.645
- Composer Johann Sebastian Bach
- Performer Murray Perahia
- Music Arranger Ferruccio Busoni
- 13:20 – It's a wonderful life (music from the film); main theme (track 5, The Alamo: The Essential Dimitri Tiomkin Collection)
- Orchestra City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra
- Composer Dimitri Tiomkin
- 15:59 – I wonder as I wander (track 1001, What Sweeter Music - Songs and Carols for Christmas)
- Conductor Nigel Short
- Composer Trad.
- Choir Tenebrae
- Music Arranger Andrew Carter
- 19:14 – Lieutenant Kije - suite for orchestra, with baritone ad lib. (Op.60), Troika (track 11, Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky Cantata, Lieutenant Kije Suite: Previn, LA Phil)
- Orchestra Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Conductor André Previn
- Composer Sergei Prokofiev
- 22:08 – The Holy Boy (track 1, English String Miniatures, Vol. 2)
- Conductor David Lloyd-Jones
- Composer John Ireland
- Orchestra Orchestra of Opera North
- 25:03 – A Christmas Carol (track 15, The Songs of Tom Lehrer)
- Performer Tom Lehrer
- 26:43 – Sleigh Ride
- Composer Leroy Anderson
- Orchestra Boston Pops Orchestra
- Conductor Arthur Fiedler