For Christmas Day, we're playing some of the best holiday music...you might even find yourself joining the chorus. Tune in for Christmas and holiday music from concerts around the world. Happy Holidays from all of us at Performance Today!
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
John Rutter: Nativity Carol
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge and Dmitri Ensemble | Graham Ross, conductor
Album: Lux De Caelo: Music For Christmas
Harmonia Mundi 907615
Randol Bass: Joy to the World Fanfare
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus | JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, NY
Emil Waldteufel: The Skaters Waltz
Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Album: Favorite Holiday Classics
SELF PROD 266
Traditional, arr. Randall Reese: I Saw Three Ships
Judy Mason, piano | Spivey Hall Tour Choir | Martha Shaw, conductor
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Traditional Finnish, arr. Michael Neaum: Gaudete
Judy Mason, piano | Spivey Hall Tour Choir | Martha Shaw, conductor
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
John Rutter: Angel's Carol
Judy Mason, piano | Spivey Hall Children's Choir | Martha Shaw, conductor
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Benjamin Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Op. 28: Mvts 1-3
Judy Mason, piano | Spivey Hall Children's Choir | Martha Shaw, conductor
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso, op. 6 no. 8, "Christmas Concerto"
Spoleto Festival USA ensemble
Spoleto Festival USA Chamber Music Series, Dock Street Theater, Charleston, SC
Hour 2
Erich Korngold: The Snowman: Prelude and Serenade
Michael Ludwig, violin | Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra | JoAnn Falletta, conductor
Album: Holiday Classical Favorites
Buffalo Philharmonic 266
Victor Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken | Pietari Inkinen, conductor
Album: Festklange (Festive Sounds)
SWRmusic
Matthew Culloton: Angels We Have Heard on High
Vox Nova Chorale | Vicki Peters, conductor
Album: A Minnesota Christmas
SELF PROD
Franz Gruber, arr. Matt Catingub: Silent Night
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra | John Morris Russell, conductor
Album: Joy!
Fanfare Cincinnati
Traditional: Greensleeves Jig - Falcon's Christmas Jig - Miriam's Christmas Jig
Alex Bigney, harp and bones | Samuel Bigney, fiddle | Simeon Bigney, cello and bodhran | Kirkmount
Album: Mittens for Christmas
Dorian 93236
Mykola Leontovych, arr. Rich Manners: Carol of the Bells
Chicago a cappella
Nichols Concert Hall, Evanston, IL
Ralph Blane/Hugh Martin: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
Cantus
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
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