大象传媒

大象传媒 Concert Orchestra conducted by Barry Wordsworth at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, in a programme of festive music featuring the ever-popular Overture to Engelbert Humperdinck鈥檚 opera Hansel & Gretel; a gentle dash through the snow on a Sleigh Ride by Frederick Delius; Gustav Holst鈥檚 setting of words by Walt Whitman 鈥� The Mystic Trumpeter, with soprano Susan Gritton as soloist; and Malcolm Arnold鈥檚 Fantasia on Christmas Carols 鈥� The Holly & The Ivy. The main event, though, is music from Act II of Tchaikovsky鈥檚 gloriously yule-packed ballet 鈥� The Nutcracker.

There鈥檚 also a chance to hear Madrid's RTVE Symphony Orchestra again in Bernstein鈥檚 suite from his 1954 film score On the Waterfront.

The programme closes with more Christmas music from a concert given in Stockholm by the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, including pieces by Alice Tegner, Hugo Alfven, Eriks Esenvalds, Erich Korngold, Jule Styne and Edward Pola鈥�well, it is the most wonderful time of the year, after all鈥�

Presented by Hannah French.

2pm
Humperdinck: Overture 鈥� Hansel & Gretel
Delius: Sleigh Ride
Holst: The Mystic Trumpeter
Arnold arr. Christopher Palmer: The Holly & The Ivy (Fantasia on Christmas Carols)
Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act II (complete)

Susan Gritton, soprano
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
Barry Wordsworth, conductor

3.20pm
Bernstein: On the Waterfront - suite

RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Madrid
Christian Lindberg, conductor

3.35pm
Gustav Lazarus Nordqvist: Jul, jul, stralande Jul (Yule, Yule, radiant Yule)
Alice Tegner: Betlehems stjarna (Star of Bethlehem)
Hugo Alfven: Julsang (Christmas Carol)
Eriks Esenvalds: Stars
William Bergsma: Carol on Twelfth Night
Erich Korngold: Introduction from 鈥淒er Schneemann鈥�
Jule Styne: Let it snow
Felix Mendelssohn: Weihnachten, Op.79 No.1
John Francis Wade: Dagen ar kommen (Adeste fidelis)
Edward Pola: It鈥檚 the most wonderful time of the year

Love Tronner, tenor
Swedish Radio Choir
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Simon Crawford-Phillips, piano/conductor