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Your perfect Sunday Christmas soundtrack

Sarah Walker with three hours of festive classical music to get you into the Christmas spirit, whether you鈥檙e spending the morning with family or wrapping presents.

Sarah Walker with three hours of festive classical music to reflect, refresh and get you into the Christmas spirit.

Today Sarah鈥檚 seasonal selection box of music has Snow Maidens, Christmas Chimes and Sleigh Rides. Gustav Holst creates a musical picture postcard of Winter, and Ola Gjeilo creates magical harmonies in a setting of a famous carol.

There鈥檚 festive film music from John Williams, and Malcolm Arnold, and touching Christmas favourites from Bach and Handel鈥檚 Messiah.

Plus, another famous name chooses their Essential Carol鈥�

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  • Trad.

    'Ding dong! Merrily on High' (Arr. Willconcks after a french Noel)

    Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • The Choir of King's College, Cambridge: Carols From King's.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 10.

  • Claude Debussy

    'The Little Shepherd' (from Children's Corner, No 5)

    Music Arranger: Yolanda Kondonassis.
    • Debussy's Harp.
    • Telarc.
    • 10.

  • Trad.

    Balulalow (Arr. S Vango)

    Lyricist: James Wedderburn. Lyricist: John Wedderburn. Lyricist: Robert Wedderburn. Music Arranger: Suzzie Vango. Ensemble: Papagena.
    • The Darkest Midnight.
    • SOMM Recordings.
    • 7.

  • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

    Joseph est bien mari茅

    Composer: Charles-Hubert Gervais. Lyricist: Anonymous. Conductor: Fran莽ois Lazarevitch. Conductor: Sofi Jeannin. Ensemble: Les Musiciens de Saint-Julien. Choir: Ma卯trise de Radio France.
    • Nuit de No毛l.
    • Alpha Classics.
    • 9.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Snow Maiden - Suite

    Lyricist: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Conductor: David Zinman. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Rotterdam Toonkunst Choir, Women's Voices of the.
    • Rimsky-Korsakov: Capriccio Espagnol; Sadko; The Snow Maiden.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 4.

  • Douglas Haislip

    Christmas Day (medley)

    Performer: The Bay Brass. Performer: John Fenstermaker. Conductor: David Krehbiel.
    • GOTHIC.

  • Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini

    'Christmas Concerto', Op 5 No 6 (3rd mvt, 'Pastorale')

    Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Christmas with The English Concert & Trevor Pinnock.
    • UME - Global Clearing House.
    • 16.

  • Florence Price

    Song for Snow

    Performer: Paul Shaw. Choir: VocalEssence. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 003.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel Und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Preludio in D Major, BuxWV 139

    Performer: Hans-J眉rgen Kaiser.
    • RBM.

  • Anon.

    The First Nowell

    Lyricist: Anon.. Music Arranger: Ola Gjeilo. Choir: The Choir of Royal Holloway.
    • Winter Songs.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 3.

  • Samuel Scheidt

    Ein Kind geborn zu Bethlehem

    Music Arranger: Sir David Willcocks. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge.
    • The Choir of King's College, Cambridge: Carols From King's.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 15.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata 'Pastorella' (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: The Illyria Consort.
    • La Notte: Concertos & Pastorales for Christmas Night.
    • Delphian Records LTD.
    • 6.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata 'Pastorella' (2nd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Illyria Consort.
    • La Notte: Concertos & Pastorales for Christmas Night.
    • Delphian Records LTD.
    • 7.

  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata 'Pastorella' (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: The Illyria Consort.
    • La Notte: Concertos & Pastorales for Christmas Night.
    • Delphian Records LTD.
    • 8.

  • Niels Wilhelm Gade

    Bornenes Jul (Children's Christmas), Op 36 (1st mvt, 'Christmas Chimes')

    • Gade, N.: Piano Music, Vol. 3.
    • Dacapo.
    • 1.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Wie schon leuchtet der Morgenstern, P501

    Composer: Philipp Nicolai. Performer: Huw Williams.
    • PRIORY.

  • Malcolm Arnold

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

    Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • The Film Music of Sir Malcolm Arnold, Vol. 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 123.

  • Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

    Nuit de No毛l, Op.41 No. 1

    Performer: Peter Froundjian.
    • SONY.

  • 罢谤盲诲

    O LittleTown of Bethlehem

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton. Choir: City of London Choir.
    • Decca.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Winter Idyll, H 31

    Conductor: JoAnn Falletta. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra.
    • Holst: Orchestral Works.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Jos茅 Feliciano

    Feliz Navidad

    • 麻豆约拍.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 3.

  • Trad.

    Drive the Cold Winter Away

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Christus Natus Est: An Early English Christmas.
    • Coro.
    • 14.

  • John Williams

    Somewhere in My Memory (Chorus & Orchestra Version)

    Lyricist: Leslie Bricusse. Conductor: John Williams.
    • 麻豆约拍 Alone (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).
    • Masterworks.
    • 15.

  • George Frideric Handel

    For unto us a child is born (Messiah)

    Orchestra: Le Concert d'Astree Chorus. Director: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.
    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Erato.
    • 12.

  • Anonymous

    O Jesulein s眉ss

    Music Arranger: Annette Isserlis.
    • 麻豆约拍 For Christmas.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 5.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Corpus Christi Carol

    Lyricist: Trad.. Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Ensemble: VOCES8.
    • Eventide.
    • Decca Music Group Ltd..
    • 10.

  • Leroy Anderson

    A Christmas Festival

    Orchestra: Dallas Winds. Conductor: Jerry Junkin.
    • Horns for the Holidays.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 8.

  • James Lord Pierpont

    Jingle Bells

    Choir: The Gesualdo Six.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sheep may safely graze (Cantata BWV.208)

    Performer: Leon Fleisher. Music Arranger: Egon Petri.
    • Leon Fleisher: Two Hands.
    • SONY.
    • 2.

  • Irving Berlin

    White Christmas

    Ensemble: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
    • Colne Valley Christmas Festival II.
    • Colne Valley Male Voice Choir.
    • 16.

  • John Joubert

    There Is No Rose of Such Virtue

    Lyricist: Anon..
    • Four Thousand Winter.
    • Sony Classical/Daniel Taylor.
    • 10.

  • Leopold Stokowski

    Traditional Slavic Christmas Music

    Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • Stokowski Transcriptions.
    • Naxos.
    • 6.

  • Leopold Mozart

    Die Musikalische Schlittenfahrt (A Musical Sleigh Ride)

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • Vaughan Meakins

    Stable Carol

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Choir: Royal Scottish National Orchestra Junior Chorus. Conductor: Christopher Bell.
    • A Family Christmas.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 1301.

  • Hieronymus Praetorius

    Magnificat Quinti Toni

    • A Wondrous Mystery: Renaissance Choral Music for Christmas.
    • harmonia mundi.
    • 7.

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