Hannah French hosts a Christmas party for Saturday Morning
Hannah has live music and guests Connaught Brass, conductor John Butt, London Vegetable Orchestra and the best classical playlist to start your festive weekend.
Hannah throws a Christmas party! There's live music from Connaught Brass, conductor John Butt on the festive season's Baroque big hitters and a legume masterclass from the London Vegetable Orchestra. Plus of course the very finest classical Christmas playlist to start your festive weekend!
Conductor and keyboardist John Butt is Musical Director of the Dunedin Consort and one of the world's finest conductors of Baroque music. This time of year though, he's also Mr Christmas! He's conducted hundreds of performances of Handel's Messiah and Bach's Christmas music and is in town to give a concert of Italian festive music. He talks about why audiences are addicted to the comfort of music at this time of year, why D major is the sound of Christmas and why for him the smell is the key...
The exciting young brass ensemble Connaught Brass are in the studio to play live and chat about the particular magic of brass instruments at Christmas, and as millions of Christmas letters are winging their way into Lapland, we discover what music making in Lapland actually sounds like from those who live there with conductor John Storgards and Sami musician 脕苍苍谩尘谩谤别迟.
And given the humble vegetable forms an integral part of many people's Christmas dinner, Hannah enlists the London Vegetable Orchestra to provide a more musical solution to a surfeit of carrots, squash and more...
Plus a Christmas smorgasbord of music - from a little heard Porpora Christmas Mass, to music by Oscar Peterson, Berlioz, Kapralova and Vaughan Williams and carols by Voces8, the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra and the little singers of Tokyo.
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Philip Lane
Gloucestershire Wassail (Vivace) - from Wassail Dances
Conductor: Gavin Sutherland. Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia.- Lane: Sleighbell Serenade / Prestbury Park / Three Christmas Pictures.
- Marco-Polo.
- 5.
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Michel Corrette
Quand Dieu naquit 脿 No毛l
Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Conductor: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin.- No毛l baroque.
- Alpha Classics.
- 5.
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Christmas Crackers II. A Carol Fantasy
Music Arranger: John Iverson. Performer: Connaught Brass. -
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Oratorio de Noel 鈥� Tecum principium
Choir: Vocalensemble Rastatt. -
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Wexford Carol
Performer: Carducci String Quartet. -
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
The Snowman (Scene 1 - extract)
Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- CHANDOS.
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Johannes Brahms
3 Intermezzi Op.117 (no.1 in E flat major 'Schlummerlied')
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Juan Garc铆a de Z茅spedes
Convidando est谩 la noche
Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.- New World Symhonies.
- HYPERION.
- 15.
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O Christmas Tree
Performer: Oscar Peterson.- An Oscar Peterson Christmas.
- Telarc.
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The Salley Gardens
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Mairi Campbell. Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.- Revenge of the Folksingers.
- Delphian.
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Glory to God in the Highest
Music Arranger: Bohdan Kryvopust. Conductor: Serhii Khorovets.- Ukrainian Christmas.
- Naxos.
- 107.
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Hector Berlioz
L'enfance du Christ (L'adieu des bergers)
Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ: Sir Colin Davis, LSO, Tenebrae Choir.
- LSO Live.
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John Foulds
Bells at Coblentz (Holiday Sketches Op.16)
Orchestra: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
- Epoch.
- 10.
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Hugh Martin
Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Composer: Ralph Blane. Performer: Connaught Brass. -
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Victor Hely-Hutchinson
A Carol Symphony
Orchestra: Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbr眉cken Kaiserslautern. Conductor: Pietari Inkinen.- SWR MUSIC.
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George Frideric Handel
And the glory of the Lord (Messiah)
Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.- Handel: Messiah: Dunedin Consort & Players.
- Linn.
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Robert Wells
The Christmas Song
Composer: Mel Torm茅. Performer: Sylvester Blue. -
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V铆t臎zslava Kapr谩lov谩
Pre虂lude de Noe虉l
Orchestra: Jan谩膷kova filharmonie Ostrava. Conductor: Tom谩拧 Vr谩na.- Kapr谩lov谩: The Completed Orchestral Works.
- CPO.
- 110.
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The Wassail Song / All Through the Night
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Performer: Chris Thile. Performer: Edgar Meyer. Music Arranger: Chris Thile. Music Arranger: Edgar Meyer.- Songs of Joy & Peace.
- Sony Classical.
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Nicola Porpora
Il verbo in carne: No. 5, Sinfonia avanti della prima parte
Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Riccardo Minasi.- Porpora: Il verbo in carne (Christmas Oratorio).
- Sony.
- 2.
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John Francis Wade
O Come, All Ye Faithful
Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: Taylor Scott Davis. Ensemble: VOCES8. Conductor: Barnaby Smith. Orchestra: VOCES8 Foundation Orchestra. Choir: VOCES8 Foundation Choir.- A Choral Christmas.
- Decca.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Troika - from Lieutenant Kije
Performer: Connaught Brass. -
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The Illyria Consort & Bojan 膶i膷i膰
Concerto for strings 'Il riposo - per il Santissimo Natale', RV 270
- Delphian.
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脕苍苍谩尘谩谤别迟
Mearrariika
- Uksi Productions Oy.
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Outi Tarkiainen
Saivo
Orchestra: Lapin kamariorkesteri. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.- Ondine.
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脕苍苍谩尘谩谤别迟
膶耻辞颈惫惫补迟谩濒诲耻
- Uksi Productions Oy.
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Jean Sibelius
5 Christmas Songs, Op. 1 (arr. I. Kuusisto for orchestra): On hanget korkeat, ni
Composer: Ilkka Kuusisto.- Christmas Music From Finland.
- Naxos Music UK Ltd.
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Come Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl
Performer: Connaught Brass. -
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on Christmas Carols
Choir: Joyful Company of Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Vaughan Williams: Christmas Music.
- Chandos.
- 101.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Pastorale
Performer: Martin Roscoe.- Hyperion.
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Michael Praetorius
Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica: XXXIV. In dulci jubilo
Conductor: Paul McCreesh. Choir: Giovanni Gabrieli. Choir: Boy's Choir of Roskilde Cathedral.- Praetorius: Christmas Mass.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 23.
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