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Christmas Classics

Jamie shares two hours of unashamed festive fun and your favourite Christmas carols.

Jamie shares two hours of unashamed festive fun! Expect Christmas tunes with a classical twist and an Album of the Week packed with choral and orchestral treats perfect for this time of year, and we鈥檇 love to add your favourite Christmas carols to the playlist, so get in touch! Email Jamie at classicsunwrapped@bbc.co.uk to add your choice to our musical selection box.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 19 Dec 2021 19:00
大象传媒 Radio Scotland

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Christmas Dance (Suite for Viola & Orchestra)

    Performer: Timothy Ridout. Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jamie Phillips.
    • Music for Viola and Chamber Orchestra.
    • Claves.
    • 3.

  • Franz Xaver Gruber

    Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht

    Conductor: Jans-Joachim Rotzsch. Choir: St Thomas's Boys Choir Leipzig.
    • 100 Christmas Meditation.
    • Capriccio.
    • 520.

  • Leroy Anderson

    Sleigh Ride

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • Sleigh Ride.
    • DG.
    • 12.

  • Mykola Leontovych

    Carol of the Bells

    Choir: Chantage. Conductor: James Davey.
    • Hark! Chantage at Christmas.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Haven Gillespie

    Santa Claus Is Coming to Town

    Composer: J. Fred Coots. Music Arranger: Kathryn Bates. Performer: Kathryn Bates.
    • Imagine Christmas.
    • Sono Luminus.
    • 701.

  • Michael Praetorius

    Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

    Music Arranger: Jan Sandstr枚m. Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • George McPhee

    Prelude on Quem Pastores

    Performer: George McPhee.
    • A Celtic Prayer.
    • Priory.
    • 13.

  • Mary MacDonald

    Child In a Manger

    Choir: Scottish Philharmonic Singers.
    • An Old-Fashioned Christmas.
    • 9.

  • Trad.

    Coventry Carol

    Music Arranger: Alan Fernie. Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band. Conductor: Phillip McCann.
    • A Christmas Celebration.
    • Chandos.
    • 17.

  • Michael Head

    The little road to Bethlehem

    Performer: Anna Noakes. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Conductor: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Nativitas, A celebration of peace: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
    • 8.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christmas Oratorio (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248.
    • HYPERION.
    • 10.

  • Trad.

    Sussex Carol (On Christmas Night)

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Daniel Hyde.
    • Carols From King's (2020 Collection).
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 8.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Christmas Overture (The Forest of Wild Thyme Op.74)

    Music Arranger: Sydney Baynes. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto grosso in F Minor, Op. 1 No. 8 "Christmas Concerto": VI. Pastorale

    Orchestra: Concerto Copenhagen. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Per la notte di Natale: Italian Christmas Concertos.
    • Naxos.
    • 506.

  • Adolphe Adam

    O Holy Night

    Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Herbert Adler.
    • Christmas Stars: Sutherland, Te Kanawa, Pavarotti.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Richard Rodgers

    Cinderella Overture

    Orchestra: Hollywood Bowl Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • Rodgers and Hammerstein Overtures.
    • Philips.
    • 9.

  • Trad.

    Shen Khar Venakhi

    Choir: Ensemble Basiani.
    • Georgia.
    • Ocora.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ombra mai fu (Xerxes)

    Ensemble: Budapest Strings. Conductor: B茅la B谩nfalvi.
    • 100 Christmas Meditation.
    • CapriccioNR.
    • 215.

  • Anon.

    Santa Lucia

    Performer: Markus Leoson. Performer: Svante Henryson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.

  • Hector Berlioz

    L' Enfance du Christ (Op.25), Pt.2; L' Adieu des bergers [Shepherd's Farewell ]

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Radiok枚ren. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ.
    • LINN.
    • 9-11.

  • Gustav Holst

    In the bleak midwinter

    Music Arranger: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Sheku Kanneh鈥怣ason. Performer: Isata Kanneh鈥怣ason.
    • Decca.

  • Harold Edwin Darke

    In the bleak midwinter

    Performer: Mark Shepard. Singer: Rebecca HARRISON. Singer: Roger Brotherton. Choir: Birmingham Bach Choir. Ensemble: Fine Arts Brass Ensemble. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • Birmingham Bach Choir: There Shall A Star.
    • Birmingham Bach Choir.
    • 15.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Christmas Concerto

    Ensemble: American Bach Soloists. Conductor: Jeffrey Thomas.
    • Corelli, A.: Concerti Grossi, Op. 6, Nos. 1, 3, 4, 7, 8 and 12.
    • Delos.
    • 405.

  • Thomas Wilson

    There Is No Rose

    Choir: Paisley Abbey Choir. Director: George McPhee.
    • A Celtic Prayer.
    • Priory Records.

Broadcast

  • Sun 19 Dec 2021 19:00
    大象传媒 Radio Scotland