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While Christmas festivities are still in full swing, Iain can't offer calling birds, French hens or turtle doves - but does gather together a group of distinguished guests, including Nicholas Hytner and Douglas Boyd. They discuss some of their musical discoveries of the year and suggest a few musical frivolities to help maintain the festive cheer.

Including:

Handel: Messiah – The Hallelujah Chorus
Arnold Schoenberg Choir/ Concentus Musicus Wien/ Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 82876640702

Music Kurt Weill, Text Bert Brecht - Mack the Knife
Bertolt Brecht/ Theo Mackeben & his Orchestra
Telefunken 0927426632

Joy Webb arr Bosanko: Share My Yoke
James Watson/ Black Dyke Band
Doyen DOYCD060

Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite Op 60 – Troika’s Song
Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra/ Andre Previn (conducting)
Telarc CD8143

Weissenberg: ‘Reminiscence d’un Charleston’ and ‘Reflets d’un blues’
from Sonate en etat de jazz
Marc Andre Hamlin
Hyperion CDA67656

Delius: ‘I stand as on some mighty eagle’s beak’ from Songs of Farewell
Waynflete Singers/ Southern Voices/ Members of the Bournemouth Symphony Chorus/ Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/ Richard Hickox
Chandos CHAN9214

Beethoven: 1st movement from the 4th Symphony
Manchester Camerata/Douglas Boyd (conducting)
Avie AV2169

Mozart: Die Zauberflote from the Finale ‘Papagena! Papagena! Papagena! Weibchen! Taubchen!
Hanno Muller –Brachmann/Arnold Schoenberg Choir/ Mahler Chamber Orchestra/
Claudio Abbado
DG 4775789

Rodgers/Hammerstein: My Favourite Things
Betty Carter (vocals)/ Harold Mabern (pno)/Bob Cranshaw (Bass)/
Roy McCurdy (drums)/
Blue Note CDP8290952

Schumann: ‘Papillons’ ‘Lettres dansantes’ Chiarina’ ‘Chopin’ from Carnival
Simon Barere rec live in Carnegie Hall
APR CDAPR7009

Stanford: 1st movement from Symphony no. 3 in F minor ‘Irish Symphony’
Ulster Orchestra / Vernon Handley (conducting)
Chandos CHAN 9279-82

Albrechtsberger: Finale from Concerto for Jews-Harp, Mandora and Orchestra in F major
Fritz Mayr (Jew's Harp), Dieter Kirsch (Mandore),
Munich Chamber Orchestra /Hans Stadlmair (conducting)
Orfeo C035821

Dowland: Now O now I needs must part
Mark Padmore (tenor)/ Elizabeth Kenny (lute)
Hyperion CDA6748

Trad: Annie Laurie
E Belaev/Soviet Army Chorus/Vladimir Alexandrov
EMI CDC7478332

De Dannan: Arrival of the Queen of Sheba in Galway
De Dannan
Sugar Hill SH-CD 1130

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