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Top tunes for the weekend

Elizabeth Alker with a Breakfast melange of classical music, folk, found sounds and the odd Unclassified track. Start your weekend right.

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Sat 23 Dec 2023 07:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    In The Bleak Midwinter

    Lyricist: Christina Rossetti. Orchestra: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Elise B氓tnes.
    • My Heart Is Ever Present.
    • Simax Classics.
    • 1.

  • Trad.

    Ding Dong Merrily On High

    Music Arranger: Sir David Willcocks. Ensemble: Elora Festival Singers. Director: Noel Edison.
    • NAXOS.

  • Trad.

    Branle Ding Dong Merrily on High

    Ensemble: Taverner Players. Director: Andrew Parrott.
    • EMI.

  • Anonymous

    L鈥橢lephant qui se balancait

    Performer: Julia.
    • UNIVERSAL.

  • Claude Debussy

    Children鈥檚 Corner: The Snow is Dancing

    Performer: Simon Trpceski.
    • EMI.

  • Raymond Vincy

    Petit Papa Noel

    Composer: Henri Martinet. Performer: Tino Rossi.
    • EMI.

  • Francis Poulenc

    O Magnum Mysterium

    Performer: VOCES8.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Henri Contet and Marc Heyral

    Le Noel de La Rue

    Performer: 脡dith Piaf. Choir: Raymond Saint Paul Chorus. Conductor: Robert Chauvigny.
    • EMI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Pifa (Messiah)

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • The Best of The Academy.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 6.

  • Robert Pearsall

    In Dulce Jubilo

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Edward Higginbottom.
    • ERATO.

  • Anonymous

    In Dulce Jubilo

    Performer: Bugge Wesseltoft.
    • ACT.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in G minor Op.6`8 'Christmas Concerto' (mvts 4-6)

    Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Jeanne Lamon.
    • Corelli: Concerti Grossi, opus 6 - Baroque Esprit Series.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 27.

  • Anon.

    Coventry Carol (Arr. R. Hayward for Guitar)

    Music Arranger: Rossini Hayward. Performer: Rossini Hayward.
    • Stille Nacht: Christmas Carols for Guitar.
    • Naxos.
    • 104.

  • Katherine Priddy

    Still Winter, Still Waiting

    Music Arranger: Harry Fausing Smith. Performer: Katherine Priddy.
    • (self-release).

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Waltz of the Snowflakes)

    Choir: Libera. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 10.

  • Gustav Holst

    Christmas Day

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Choir: City of London Choir. Singer: Julia Doyle. Singer: Lydia Challen. Singer: Julian Davies. Singer: Simon Oberst. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • In Terra Pax: A Christmas Anthology.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on 'Greensleeves'

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Manze.
    • Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works.
    • Onyx.
    • 04.

  • William Marsh

    Pentonville

    Choir: Carollers of the Royal Hotel in Dungworth.
    • Smithsonian Folkways.

  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    The Skaters Waltz

    Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini.
    • RCA.

  • Vince Guaraldi Trio

    Skating

    • FANTASY.

  • Frank Bridge

    Sir Roger de Coverley

    Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works: The Collector's Edition.
    • Chandos.

  • Trad.

    Shine Like a Star in the Morning/Joseph and Mary (The Cherry Tree Carol)/Cradle Hymn

    Performer: The Seeger Sisters.
    • SMITHSONIAN.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for Solo Violin No. 3 in C Major, BWV 1005

    Music Arranger: V铆kingur 脫lafsson.
    • From Afar.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 3.

  • National Youth Jazz Orchestra

    We Wish you a Merry Christmas

    Performer: Mark Armstrong. Performer: National Youth Jazz Orchestra. Performer: 91热爆 Singers. Conductor: Ben Palmer.
    • 91热爆 RECORDING.

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  • Sat 23 Dec 2023 07:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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