Musica della sera

Classical Music 7:00-9:30pm

Playlist for Thursday, December 18, 2008

Hosted by Meera Collier-Mitchell

Time	Composer	Selection	Performers	Record Title	Label
7:00	Jeffrey Reid Baker	Music in the style of Erik Satie: The First Noel Gymnopedie for Solo Piano	Jeffrey Reid Baker	A Composer’s Christmas	JRB
	Traditional	The Shining Shore Saint’s Delight	Anonymous 4	Gloryland	Harmonia Mundi
	Traditional, Shetland Islands	Christmas Day in da Mornin’	The Baltimore Consort	Bright Day Star: Music for the Yuletide Season	Dorian Records
	Cornwall 1913 & Kentucky	The Cherry Tree Carol
	Traditional Hebrides	Christ Child Lullaby	Barry Phillips, cello Sarah-Jane Summers, fiddle Jesse Autumn, double-harp Neal Hellman: mountain dulcimer	Colonial Christmas	Gourd Music
	Jean Ritchie	“The Christmas Tree”, from Jean Richie’s autobiographical book Singing Family of the Cumberlands	The Christmas Revels Jean Ritchie, speaker John Langstaff, Dir.	Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music	Revels Records
	Traditional Camp Revival Song	Hark! I hear the harps eternal	Anonymous 4	American Angels
7:30	Jean Ritchie	“Mountain Christmas Carolling” from Jean Richie’s book	The Christmas Revels Jean Ritchie, speaker John Langstaff, Dir.	Wassail! Wassail! Early American Christmas Music	Revels Records
	Traditional	Wondrous Love
	Traditional/Playford	Drive the Cold Winter Away	Lars Johannesson, flute Deby Benton Grosjean, Fiddle Jesse Autumn, double harp Neal Hellman, mountain dulcimer Barry Phillips, cello	Colonial Christmas	Gourd Music
	Stephen Paulus (b. 1949)	Three Nativity Carols: I. The Holly and the Ivy II. This Endris Night III. Wonder Tiding	The New York Concert Singers, Judith Clurman, cond.	A Season’s Promise	New World Records
	Traditional	Vassourinhas	Sergio and Odair Assad, guitars Yo-Yo Ma, Cello	Songs of Joy and Peace	Sony Classical
	Catalan Traditional John Rutter, arr.	El Noi de la Mare (The Son of the Virgin)	The Cambridge Singers, John Rutter, dir. Clara Sanabras, soprano Royal Philharmonic Orchestra	A Christmas Festival	Collegium
8:00	John Rutter, arr.	Shepherd’s Pipe Carol	Polyphony, Stephen Layton, cond. City of London Sinfonia	A Christmas Present	Hyperion
	Traditional Folk Carol, 16^th c.	O Sleep My Pretty Baby	Yolanda Kondonassis, harp	Dream Season	Telarc
	American Folk Carol	I Wonder as I wander
	Franz Gruber	Silent Night
	Spanish, 10^th c.	Isaiah’s Prophecy: The Sybil’s Prophecy,	The Boston Camerata, Joel Cohen, dir.	A Medieval Christmas	Elektra Nonesuch
	Franco-Provencal, 12^th c.	Conductus, Adest sponsus
	Franco-Provencal, 12^th c.	Gabriel’s Prophecy: Oiet virgines
	French, 13^th c.	Clausula, Domino
	plainchant	Hymn: Conditor alme siderum
8:30	Medieval Chant & Polyphony	▪ Sainte nicholaes ▪ A worschipfull man hadde thre doughtres virgines ▪ Fulget nicolaus	Anonymous 4	Legends of St. Nicholas	Harmonia Mundi
	Heinrich Schütz (1585—1672)	Meine Seele erhebt den Herren, SWV 426	Rosemarie Hofmann, soprano Rene Jacobs, countertenor Basel Madrigalists Orchestra of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, Fritz Näf, Cond.	Baroque Yuletide	BMG
	Pietro Antonio Locatelli (1695—1764)	Concerto Grosso in F min.	Cis Collegium Mozarteum Salzburg, Jurgen Geise, dir.	Christmas Concertos	Arte Nova
9:00	Johann Sebastian Bach (1685—1750)	Chorales: Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme Gloria sei dir gesungen	Tolzer Knabenchor Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, dir.	Celestial Christmas	Teldec
	Catalan Christmas Folk Song (arr. DiSavino)	Song of the Birds	Solid Brass	Christmas with Solid Brass	Dorian
	Traditional Provencal, arr. Jeff Scott	Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella Jingle Bells	Imani Winds: Valerie Coleman, flute Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe, English horn Mariam Adam, clarinet Jeff Scott, French horn Monica Ellis, bassoon	This Christmas	Koch
	Traditional (arr Della Peruti)	Three German Carols: In dulci jubilo, Silent Night, Hark the Herald Angels Sing	Solid Brass	Christmas Gift: A Dorian Holiday Celebration	Dorian

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