Classical Music for Christmas - 2023

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Arr. Tempel)

Hugh Martin

O du fröhliche! O du selige!

Traditional, Andrew Parrott, Taverner Players, Taverner Choir

The Little Drummer Boy (Arr. McCarthy)

The King's Singers, Henry Onorati, Harry Simeone, Katherine K. Davis

Mary's Boy Child (Arr. Price)

Vienna Boys' Choir, Jester Hairston

O Tannenbaum (Arr. Mattes)

Leopold Hager, Traditional, Symphonieorchester Radio Luxemburg, Der Kölner Kinderchor

Three Small Tone Poems, RT VI/7: No. 2, Winter Night (Sleigh Ride)

Frederick Delius, Northern Sinfonia Of England, Richard Hickox

Last Christmas (Symphonic Christmas)

Leise rieselt der Schnee (Arr. Whilds)

Traditional, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Diana Damrau, Richard Whilds

Der Messias, K. 572, Pt. 1: No. 14, Aria. "Er weidet seine Herde"

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, George Frideric Handel, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Diana Damrau, Riccardo Minasi, Knabenchor Hannover, Wolfgang Zerer

Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248, Pt. 1: No. 1, Jauchzet, frohlocket, auf, preiset die Tage (Arr. Wright for Trumpet)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Alison Balsom, Balsom Ensemble

Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248, Pt. 1: No. 1, Jauchzet, frohlocket (Choir)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Ton Koopman, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Amsterdam Baroque Choir

Weihnachtsoratorium, BWV 248, Pt. 2: No. 1, Pastorale Sinfonia in G Major (Arr. Wright for Trumpet)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Alison Balsom, Balsom Ensemble

Judas Maccabaeus, HWV 63: Tochter Zion, freue dich (Arr. Bickenbach)

George Frideric Handel, Hermann Prey, Tölzer Knabenchor, Symphonie-Orchester Graunke, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden

Macht hoch die Tür (Arr. Bickenbach)

Traditional, Tölzer Knabenchor, Symphonie-Orchester Graunke, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden

Herbei, o ihr Gläubigen (Arr. Bickenbach)

Traditional, Der Bielefelder Kinderchor, Friedrich Oberschelp, Christfried Bickenbach, Gerhard Bunk

Kling, Glöckchen, klingelingeling (Arr. Mattes)

Leopold Hager, Traditional, Symphonieorchester Radio Luxemburg, Der Kölner Kinderchor

Silent Night (Arr. Tempel)

Franz Xaver Gruber, Scott Lawton

Weihnachten (Arr. Whilds)

NDR Radiophilharmonie, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Richard Whilds

Bist du bei mir, BWV 508 (Arr. Yang)

Xuefei Yang, Gottfried Heinrich Stölzel

Weihnachtsfriede (Arr. Whilds)

NDR Radiophilharmonie, René Kollo, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Richard Whilds

Il est né le divin enfant

Traditional, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Michel Legrand, Maurice André, Nicolas André, Beatrice Andre

Ihr Kinderlein, kommet (Arr. Breuer)

Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, Vienna Boys' Choir, Hans Gillesberger

Stille Nacht, H. 145 (Arr. Whilds)

Franz Xaver Gruber, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Riccardo Minasi, Lucienne Renaudin Vary

Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: X. Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (Arr. Wright for Trumpet)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Alison Balsom, Balsom Ensemble

In dulci jubilo, BWV 729 (Arr. Mattes)

Leopold Hager, Johann Sebastian Bach, Symphonieorchester Radio Luxemburg, Vokalensemble Marburg

Xerxes, HWV 40, Act I: Largo "Ombra mai fù"

George Frideric Handel, Salonorchester Colln

Ding Dong, Merrily on High (Arr. Harvey)

Traditional, London Brass

The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II: Pas de deux

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Berliner Philharmoniker, Sir Simon Rattle

Watermusic Suite No 1 in F Major, HWV 348: IV. Menuet

George Frideric Handel, John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists

Overture in D Major, TWV 55:e1 "Musique de table": I. Lentement - Vite - Lentement

Georg Philipp Telemann, Maurice André, Frans Brüggen, Concerto Amsterdam

Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

Michael Praetorius, Chanticleer

Polyhymnia Caduceatrix et Panegyrica: No. 10, Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern

Michael Praetorius, Andrew Parrott, Taverner Choir

Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 6 No. 8 "Christmas Concerto": III. Adagio - Allegro

Academy of Ancient Music, Arcangelo Corelli, Pavlo Beznosiuk, Alison Balsom

114 Songs: No. 100, A Christmas Carol (Arr. Echols)

Charles Ives, Chanticleer

Quem pastores laudavere (Arr. Rutter)

Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Sir David Willcocks

In the Bleak Midwinter, H. 73 No. 1 (Arr. Jennings)

Gustav Holst, Chanticleer

O Jesulein süß, BWV 493

Johann Sebastian Bach, Edward Higginbottom, Choir of New College, Oxford, Georg Christian Schemelli

O Holy Night (Arr. Prizeman)

Adolphe Adam, Libera, Robert Prizeman, Steven Geraghty, Fiona Pears, Elizabeth May

The Seasons, Op. 67, Tableau I "Winter": IV. Ice. Andantino

Yevgeny Svetlanov, Alexander Glazunov

The Seasons, Op. 37a: XII. Décembre (Noël)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Mikhail Pletnev

The Nutcracker, Op. 71a: I. Ouverture miniature (Arr. for Two Pianos)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Martha Argerich, Mirabela Dina

The Nutcracker, Op. 71a: VIII. Valse des Fleurs (Arr. for Two Pianos)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Martha Argerich, Mirabela Dina

Messiah, HWV 56, Pt. 1: No. 13, Pifa (Orchester)

George Frideric Handel, Sir Neville Marriner, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart

Ave verum corpus, K. 618

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, David Hill, Winchester Cathedral Choir

Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: IV. Pie Jesu

Gabriel Fauré, Orchestre de Paris, Paavo Järvi, Philippe Jaroussky

Morgen kommt der Weihnachtsmann (Arr. Pasatieri)

Thomas Hampson, Hugh Wolff, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Leonhard von Call

The Twelve Days of Christmas (Arr. Rutter)

Traditional, John Rutter, Jeremy Blandford, Clare College Orchestra, Clare College Singers, Frederic Austin

We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Arr. Warrell)

Hallé, Hallé Choir, Maurice Handford

Nativity Carol (Arr. Rutter)

John Rutter, Jeremy Blandford, Clare College Orchestra, Clare College Singers

Trumpet Concerto in C Minor, TWV 51:D7: II. Allegro

Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner, Georg Philipp Telemann, Maurice André

Süßer die Glocken nie klingen (Arr. Whilds)

Traditional, NDR Radiophilharmonie, Lucienne Renaudin Vary, Richard Whilds