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Music Played

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Quartet-movement in F major

    Ensemble: Panochovo kvarteto.
    • Dvorak Miniatures.
    • Supraphon.
    • 012.

  • Elizabeth Poston

    Jesus Christ the Apple Tree

    Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • Christmas with St. John's.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2101.

  • Augusta HolmΓ¨s

    Clair de lune (3 Petites pieces)

    Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: Hélène Couvert.
    • ALPHA.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy: Images, Etudes etc.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ich lasse dich nicht, du segnest mich denn! (Cantata no.157)

    Singer: Christoph Genz. Singer: Peter Kooij. Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
    • J S Bach - Cantatas, Vol.51.
    • BIS.
    • 10.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Piano Concerto in G major (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Jean-Efflam Bavouzet plays Debussy, Ravel & Massenet.
    • Chandos.
    • 5.

  • Philip Radcliffe

    Mary Walked Through a Wood of Thorn

    Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
    • A Very English Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 2101.

  • Ben Parry

    Aldeburgh Carol

    Choir: The National Youth Chamber Choir. Conductor: Ben Parry.
    • APPLE MUSIC.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor RV.356, Op.3 No.6 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: ThΓ©otime Langlois de Swarte. Ensemble: Le Consort.
    • Concerti per una vita.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Mateo Flecha

    Riu riu chiu

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • A Spanish Nativity.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • 8.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Alessandro Stradella

    Cruel fate of love enticed me (from the opera: The Contests of Heroic Love)

    Singer: Silvia Frigato. Conductor: Andrea De Carlo. Ensemble: Ensemble Mare Nostrum.
    • Stradella: Un angelo del Paradiso - The Orrigoni Songbook.
    • Arcana.
    • 4.

  • Anon.

    Danza dei pastori

    Ensemble: Capella de la Torre. Conductor: Katharina BΓ€uml.
    • Capriccio Pastorale (Italian Christmas Music).
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
    • 18.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin: Act 3 Prelude

    Conductor: Arturo Toscanini. Orchestra: NBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA.

  • John Field

    Nocturne No. 2 in C Minor, H. 25

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • Field: Piano Music, Vol. 1.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Greg Lake

    I Believe in Father Christmas

    Music Arranger: Jonathan Rathbone. Choir: Vasari Singers. Conductor: Jeremy Backhouse.
    • A Winter’s Light.
    • Naxos.
    • 7.

  • Frederick Delius

    The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • Robert Redhead

    The Joy of Christmas

    Performer: The International Staff Band Of The Salvation Army. Conductor: Colonel Bernard Adams.
    • The Joy Of Christmas.
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 3.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op 44, No 3 (4th mvt)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • Mendelssohn: The String Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 17.

  • Hugo Distler

    Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen

    Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Conductor: Toby Ward.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    Fantasy on Christmas Carols (from the film "The Holly and the Ivy")

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • Arnold: Film Music, Volume 2: Dyson, ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Phil, Gamba.
    • Chandos.
    • 23.

  • Phil Cunningham

    The Gentle Light that Wakes Me

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Aly Bain. Performer: Phil Cunningham.
    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔcoming: A Scottish Fantasy.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Pembroke College Girls' Choir

    The Pembroke Carol

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 114.

  • Ben Ponniah

    Seeing the Star

    Choir: The Chapel Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge. Conductor: Anna Lapwood. Choir: Pembroke College Girls' Choir.
    • A Pembroke Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 117.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • Eugene Ormandy - Brahms R. Strauss Webern Kabalevsky Rachmaninov Sibelius.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

  • Jean Sibelius

    5 Christmas Songs (En etsi valtaa loistoa)

    Composer: Ossi Elokas. Conductor: Nils Schweckendiek. Choir: Helsingin kamarikuoro.
    • Riemuitkaamme!: A Finnish Christmas.
    • BIS.
    • 201.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite no.3 in C Major BWV.1009 (Sarabande)

    Performer: Abel Selaocoe.
    • Where is ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ / Hae ke Kae.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Edward Bairstow

    Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silence

    Choir: Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Conductor: John Harper.
    • Alto.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major (1st mvmt, Allegro)

    Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Halstead.
    • ALTO.

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