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Christmas Morning Live

Bring some sparkle to your festive celebrations by joining Petroc Trelawny live on Christmas Day for uplifting seasonal music, studio guests and listener requests.

Whether you鈥檙e celebrating with family or spending the time on your own, your host, Petroc Trelawny has assembled the perfect selection of festive guests to brighten and enliven your morning with great music and heartwarming moments, including conversation with his special guest, pianist Stephen Hough, and music from the award-winning folk trio, Granny鈥檚 Attic, and jazz stars Ian Shaw and Ella Hohnen-Ford.

As well as featuring music that celebrates the Christmas traditions around the globe, Petroc will be playing personal favourites such as Vaughan Williams鈥檚 Fantasia on Christmas Carols and Handel鈥檚 Messiah, and listeners will be able to message the show to request seasonal music of their choice for their Christmas morning.

Plus, a series of specially-commissioned readings from celebrity Christmas diaries give an insight into Christmas鈥檚 past and present featuring well-known actors including Adjoa Andoh (Bridgerton), Alex Jennings (The Crown), and in the best traditions of present-giving, there will be a surprise or two.

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Christmas Day 2021 09:00

Music Played

  • Jos茅 Pacheco

    Moita festa

    Conductor: Christopher Warren鈥怗reen. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra.
    • Midwinter's Eve: Music for Christmas.
    • Sony.
    • 12.
  • Michel Corrette

    Sinfonia No. 2 (Six Symphonies de Noel)

    Orchestra: La Fantasia. Director: Rien Voskuilen.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Silent Woods, Op.68 no.5

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.
  • Trad.

    Good King Wenceslas

    Music Arranger: George Morton. Choir: 大象传媒 Singers. Orchestra: Guildhall Jazz Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Kok.
  • CHRISTMAS READING

    Broadcasting at Christmas by Katherine Tynan, read by Dame Sian Phillips

  • Percy Grainger

    Blithe Bells (a free ramble on J. S. Bach's aria 'Sheep may Graze in Safety')

    Orchestra: Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Hopkins.
    • ABC CLASSICS.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo No 1 in B minor Op 20

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Granny鈥檚 Attic

    Boxing Day

    Ensemble: Granny鈥檚 Attic.
  • Sulpitia Cesis

    Puer qui natus est

    Ensemble: Cappella Artemisia. Director: Candace Smith.
    • Tactus.
  • Leo Brouwer

    Cancion de cuna (Cradle Song)

    Performer: Marcelo Kayath.
    • Guitar Classics from Latin America.
    • I.M.P..
    • 9.
  • Leroy Anderson

    Sleigh Ride

    Music Arranger: Cameron Carpenter. Performer: Cameron Carpenter.
    • Sleigh Ride.
    • NFI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Nutcracker Suite: No.7 Pas de deux

    Performer: Simon Trpceski. Music Arranger: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Piano Works: Trpceski.
    • EMI Classics.
  • CHRISTMAS READING

    Diary entry from Private Robert Keating, read by JJ Chalmers

  • Cecil Coles

    Behind the Lines

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HELIOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 8 in F major, Op 93 (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • LSO Live.
  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the apple tree

    Choir: Belfast Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • Resonus.
  • Ant么nio Carlos Jobim

    The Girl from Ipanema

    Music Arranger: Oscar Peterson. Ensemble: The Oscar Peterson Trio.
    • We Get Requests.
    • VERVE.
    • 1.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in F minor, RV 297, 'Winter'

    Performer: Federico Guglielmo. Ensemble: L'Arte dell'Arco. Director: Federico Guglielmo.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Guglielmo.
    • CPO.
    • 10.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Village Scene by the Inn, Op.19

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Vassily Sinaisky.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Traditional Russian

    Valenki, valenki

    Singer: Lidia Ruslanova. Ensemble: Unnamed folk ensemble.
    • MELODIYA.
  • 罢谤盲诲

    O Little Town of Bethlehem

    Ensemble: Granny鈥檚 Attic.
  • Granny鈥檚 Attic

    New Year's Day

    Ensemble: Granny鈥檚 Attic.
  • Gordon Thornett

    Festive Overture: The Joy Of Christmas

    Orchestra: RT脡 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • The Spirit Of Christmas.
    • HERITAGE.
    • 1.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Ceremony of Carols: This Little Babe, Deo Gracias

    Performer: Sioned Williams. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sir Stephen Hough

    Ding Dong Merrily on High

    Choir: St Thomas Choir Of Men And Boys, 5th Avenue, New York. Director: Jeremy Filsell.
  • Trad.

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Performer: Ruth Wall. Music Arranger: Graham Fitkin.
    • The Three Harps of Christmas.
    • GFR.
    • 5.
  • Traditional Cornish

    hollyberry song (Sans Day Carol)

    Music Arranger: Kerry Andrew. Choir: Juice Vocal Ensemble.
    • Resonus.
  • Trad.

    The Holly and the Ivy

    Music Arranger: Henry Walford Davies. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Christmas Carols by King's College Choir.
    • Kings College Cambridge.
    • 110.
  • Trad.

    The Holly & the Ivy

    Composer: Graham Fitkin. Performer: Ruth Wall.
    • GFR.
  • King Henry VIII of England

    Grene growith the holy

    Singer: Charles Daniels. Ensemble: Capella de la Torre. Director: Katharina B盲uml.
    • Harry Our King.
    • Carpe Diem.
    • 6.
  • Audrey Hepburn

    Moon River

    • Music From The Films Of Audrey Hepburn.
    • Big Screen Records.
    • 11.
  • Duke Ellington

    It Don't Mean a Thing (If It Ain't Got That Swing)

    Singer: Ivie Anderson. Orchestra: Duke Ellington and His Orchestra.
    • ASV.
  • CHRISTMAS READING

    Diary entry from Cosima Lizst Wagner, read by Dame Sian Phillips

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra.
    • BIS.
  • Ella Hohnen-Ford & Ian Shaw

    In the Bleak Mid-Winter

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe in Father Christmast

    Music Arranger: Ian Shaw. Performer: Ian Shaw.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Pastorale per la notte della nativitate Christi

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    For unto us a child is born (Messiah)

    Conductor: John Butt. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort.
    • Handel: Messiah: Dunedin Consort & Players/John Butt.
    • Linn.
    • 13.
  • CHRISTMAS READING

    Diary entry for Christmas Day by Samuel Pepys, read by Alex Jennings

  • John Dowland

    A Dream

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Nocturnal.
    • BIS.
    • 15.
  • Trad.

    I saw three ships

    Performer: Christopher Gray. Music Arranger: Philip Marshall. Choir: Truro Cathedral Choir. Director: Robert Sharpe.
    • When He Is King.
    • LAMMAS.
    • 6.
  • Stephen Hall

    To the sea

    Singer: Brenda Wootton. Performer: John the Fish.
    • The Voice of Cornwall - La grande Cornouaillaise, vol. 1.
    • Keltia Musique.
    • 18.
  • Martin Shaw

    Cargoes

    Author: John Masefield. Singer: Peter Dawson.
    • Songs of the Sea.
    • LEVERAGE.
    • 9.
  • Thomas Pitfield

    The Keel Reel

    Performer: John Turner. Performer: John McCabe.
    • HERITAGE.
  • Kurt Weill

    My Ship

    Author: Ira Gershwin. Music Arranger: Hal Mooney. Singer: Sarah Vaughan. Orchestra: Hal Mooney & His Orchestra.
    • The No. 1 Jazz Album.
    • PolyGram TV.
    • 10.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.929 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Virgin Classics.
  • Hugh Martin

    Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas

    Composer: Ralph Blane. Performer: Ella Hohnen-Ford. Performer: Ian Shaw.
  • Walter Kent

    I'll be home for Christmas

    Composer: Kim Gannon. Performer: Ella Hohnen-Ford. Performer: Ian Shaw.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia a 6 MB.48.35

    Performer: Susanna Pell. Performer: Asako Morikawa. Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Sonsorts for Viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 01.
  • John Gardner

    Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

    Performer: Mark Shepard. Choir: Birmingham Bach Choir. Ensemble: Fine Arts Brass Ensemble. Director: Paul Spicer.
    • Birmingham Bach Choir: There Shall A Star.
    • Birmingham Bach Choir.
    • 6.

Broadcast

  • Christmas Day 2021 09:00