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An Early Music Yule

Hannah is joined in the festive Early Music Show studio by soprano Dame Emma Kirkby & conductor Robert Hollingworth to chat about their favourite Christmas music.

In this special edition of the Early Music Show, expect festive music galore, from Bach and Charpentier to Bolivian villancicos and Elizabethan partsongs.

Hannah's yuletide guests are the world-renowned early music soprano Dame Emma Kirkby, as well as the founder of baroque ensemble I Fagiolini and conductor Robert Hollingworth to chat about some of their favourite Christmas music.

Plus, there'll be contributions from organist Ton Koopman, lutenist Elizabeth Kenny, conductor Joseph McHardy and flautist Ashley Solomon to name but a few...

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59 minutes

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Sunday 17:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in F major, BWV.233 (Gloria)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Bach: Epiphany Mass.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 6.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248, Pt. 1: No. 8, Aria. "Gro脽er Herr, o starker K枚nig"

    Singer: Klaus Mertens. Conductor: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
    • Bach: Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.
  • Trad.

    In dulci jubilo

    Music Arranger: Ton Koopman. Conductor: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Ensemble: Nieuw Vocaal Amsterdam.
    • Kerstspel.
    • Challenge Classics.
    • 19.
  • Roque Jacinto de Chavarr铆a

    Fuera, Fuera! Haganles lugar!

    Choir: Arakaendar Bolivia Choir. Ensemble: Florilegium. Director: Ashley Solomon.
    • Bolivian Baroque, Vol. 3: Music from the Missions and La Plata.
    • Channel Classics.
    • 1.
  • Johann Christoph Pez

    Concerto pastorale in F Major: VI. Passacaglia

    Performer: Dorothee Oberlinger. Ensemble: Ensemble 1700.
    • Deutsche HM.
  • Traditional English

    Coventry Carol

    Music Arranger: Linn Andrea Fuglseth. Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • YULE.
    • 2L.
    • 7.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Messe de minuit pour No毛l, H. 9: V. Agnus Dei "脌 minuit fut fait un r茅veil"

    Ensemble: Aradia Ensemble. Conductor: Kevin Mallon.
    • Charpentier, M.-A.: Noels and Christmas Motets, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 101.
  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Messe de minuit pour no毛l, H. 9: IX. Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.
    • Charpentier: In nativitatem Domini canticum & Messe de minuit pour no毛l.
    • Warner Classics International.
    • 27.
  • William Byrd

    An Earthly Tree - Cast off All Doubtful Care

    Singer: Helen Charlston. Singer: Amy Lyddon. Singer: Emma Walshe. Singer: Guy Cutting. Singer: Malachy Frame. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • An Elizabethan Christmas: Byrd, Holborne, Gibbons, Peerson, Weelkes.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 901.
  • Juan Franc茅s de Iribarren

    Xacara de Navidad

    Singer: Anna Beard Fernandez. Singer: Nicholas Mulroy. Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque. Conductor: Robert Hollingworth.

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