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Saturday - Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical breakfast show. Including Adams's O Holy Night, Strauss's Vienna Bon-bons, and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

Clemency Burton-Hill presents Radio 3's classical Breakfast show, including Adams' O Holy Night sung by Kiri te Kanawa, Strauss (the Younger)'s Vienna Bon-bons played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt, and The Young Prince and Princess from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade is performed by the New York Philharmonic under Kurt Masur.

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Christmas Eve 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Christmas Eve : Polonaise

    Performer: Moscow Symphony Orchestra Performer: Igor Golovshin (conductor)

    • Naxos 8.570344.
  • Adolphe Adam

    O Holy Night

    Performer: Kiri te Kanawa Performer: London Voices Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra Performer: Carl Davies (conductor)

    • Decca 478 2105.
  • Franz Liszt

    Scherzo "Lighting Candles on the Christmas Tree" from Weihnachtsbaum

    Performer: Rhondda Gillespie (piano)

    • CHAN 6629.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for harpsichord, two recorder and strings BWV 1057

    Performer: The Purcell Quartet Performer: Robert Woolley (harpsichord) Performer: Marion Scott, Rachel Beckett (recorders)

    • Chaconne CHAN 0636.
  • Hector Berlioz

    L' Enfance du Christ (Op.25), Pt.2; L' Adieu des bergers (The Shepherds Farewell)

    Performer: Academy and Choir of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Neville Marriner

    • Philips 442 1412.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Opening Toccata From Vespers of the Blessed Virgin

    Performer: Onyx Brass

    • Onyx Brass.
  • Johann Strauss II - Vienna Bonbons op 307

    Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

  • Franz Xaver Gruber

    Silent Night

    Arranger: David Hill (B.1957) Performer: 大象传媒 Singers Performer: Paul Brough (conductor) Performer: Tenor solo: Christopher Bowen Performer: Bass solo: Jamie W. Hall

    • 大象传媒 Recording.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev - Winter Fairy from Five Pieces from Cinderella

    Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky (violin) Performer: Olga Sitkovetsjy (piano)

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Music from Ballets Suites 1, 2 and 3

    Performer: Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Neeme Jarvi

    • CHAN 6512.
  • Leroy Anderson

    A Christmas Festival

    Performer: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Performer: Christopher Bell

    • SIG CD 202.
  • Morten Lauridsen

    O magnum mysterium

    Performer: Polyphony Performer: Stephen Layton

    • Hyperion NOEL 2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons, op 37b: December : Noel

    Performer: Yefim Bronfman (piano)

    • SK 60689.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade, op 35: The Young Prince and Princess

    Performer: New York Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Kurt Masur (conductor)

    • APEX 2564 60374 2.
  • Herbert Howells

    Sing Lullaby From Three Carol Anthems

    Performer: Choir of St Johns College Oxford

    • Nimbus NI 5589.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Christmas Concerto: Allegro and Pastorale

    Performer: I Solisti Veneti

    • Erato 4509 91778 2.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme BWV 645

    Performer: Christopher Herrick (organ of the Jesuitenkirche, Lucerne)

    • Hyperion CDS44130.
  • Philip Lane

    Wassail Dances (Somerset, Yorkshire and Gloucestershire)

    Performer: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

    • Naxos 8.557099.
  • Trad.

    Tomorrow shall be my Dancing Day

    Performer: Cambridge Singers Performer: John Rutter (conductor)

    • COLDCD 133.

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