On today's show, we're featuring a special family collaboration. Pianist Yevgeny Sudbin and his daughter, Bella, perform together, playing Sudbin's arrangement of a popular holiday favorite for piano four hands.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Andrej Makor: O Magnum Mysterium
Eleanor Coleman, soprano | Maximilian O'Neill, tenor | The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin | Desmond Earley, conductor
Album: Be All Merry
Signum 643
Bernard de la Monnoye, arr. Matt Catingub: Patapan
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | John Morris Russell, conductor
Album: Joy!
Fanfare Cincinnati
Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, arr. Sydney Baynes: Christmas Overture
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | John Morris Russell, conductor
Album: Joy!
Fanfare Cincinnati
Vince Guaraldi, arr. Brian Smith: Coventry Carol / Christmas Time is Here
Revien: Phil Snyder, cello | Kyle Dawkins, classical guitar | Brian Smith, classical guitar and looper
University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Hugh Hodgson Hall, Athens, GA
Traditional, arr. Valerie Coleman: Go Tell It On The Mountain
Imani Winds
Album: This Christmas with Imani Winds
Koch 7748
Traditional French, arr. Jeff Scott: Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
Imani Winds | Nate Smith, percussion | Javier Diaz, percussion
Album: This Christmas with Imani Winds
Koch
Adhamhnan and Uinseann Mac Domhnaill: Cro na Nollag (The Christmas Stable)
Kiri O'Neill, soprano | Emily Doyle, soprano | The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin | Desmond Earley, conductor
Album: Be All Merry
Signum 643
Fiontan O Cearbhaill: Suantrai (Lullaby)
Niamh McCullough, soprano | The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin and Irish Chamber Orchestra
Album: Be All Merry
Signum 643
Elaine Agnew: Curoo Curoo
The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin | Desmond Earley, conductor
Album: Be All Merry
Signum 643
Eoghan Desmond: Be All Merry
Katherine Hunka, violin | The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin | Desmond Earley, conductor
Album: Be All Merry
Signum 643
Linda Kachelmeier: We Toast the Days
Ciaran O'Donovan, tenor | Ivan O'Neill, baritone | The Choral Scholars of University College Dublin | Desmond Earley, conductor
Album: Be All Merry
Signum 643
Hour 2
Henri Pensis: Fantasy on Two Christmas Carols
Miramar Sinfonietta | Henri Pensis, conductor
Album: Twentieth Century "Contrasts"
Albany 509
George Frideric Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 (excerpts)
Atlanta Baroque Orchestra | The Cathedral Schola of the Cathedral of St. Philip | Dale Adelmann, conductor
The Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta, GA
Peter Tchaikovsky, arr. Yevgeny Sudbin: The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Mvt 20
Yevgeny Sudbin, piano | Bella Sudbin, piano
Tippet Rise Art Center, The Olivier Music Barn, Fishtail, MT
Engelbert Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel Overture
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie | Pietari Inkinen, conductor
Album: Festklange
SWR Music 19131
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