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Saturday, December 25, 2004
A guide for music played on WNYC FM

OVERNIGHT MUSIC

12:08am
"Greensleeves to a Ground"
Anonymous
Richard Harvey, recorder
ASV 558
12:17am
"Christmas Oratorio," Part I: 'Jauchzet, frohlocket': Excerpt
Johann Sebastian Bach
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Philip Ledger, conductor
Elly Ameling, soprano
Angel/EMI 69503
12:28am
"Christmas Vespers"
Claudio Monteverdi
Canadian Brass
Kazuyoshi Akiyama, conductor
Boston Symphony Orchestra Brass
CBS/Sony 44931
12:40am
"Christmas Symphony" in D
Gaetano Maria Schiassi
Cis Collegium Mozarteum, Salzburg
Helge Rosenkranz, conductor
Marianne Borsche, flute
Arte Nova 30505
12:49am
"Lullay, lullay: Als I lay on Yoolis night"
Anonymous
Anonymous 4
Harmonia Mundi 907099
12:58am
"Kinderstucke," Op. 72 ("Christmas Pieces")
Felix Mendelssohn
Benjamin Frith, piano
Naxos 550940
1:11am
"Songs from the Hill Folk"
John Jacob Niles/John Wesley Work
The Boston Pops
Keith Lockhart, conductor
Jesse Goldberg, vocalist
Boston Pops Recordings 0002
1:21am
"Maire, lei campagno gansaion" ( Mother, the church bells are pealing)
Traditional French
Terra Nova Consort
Dorian 90269
1:34am
"Christmas Oratorio," Op. 12
Camille Saint-Saens
Bach Orchestra and Chorus, Mainz
Diethard Hellmann, conductor
Verena Schweizer, soprano
Calig 50512
2:17am
"Two Yuletide Pieces"
Howard Hanson
Thomas Labe, piano
Naxos 559047
2:24am
"Messe de minuit pour Noel"
Marc-Antoine Charpentier
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie, conductor
Erato 85820
2:56am
"Siegfried Idyll"
Richard Wagner
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
James Levine, conductor
Deutsche Grammophon 435883
3:18am
"Sheep May Safely Graze," BWV 208
Johann Sebastian Bach
Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner, conductor
Angel/EMI 69717
3:26am
"A Ceremony of Carols," Op. 28
Benjamin Britten
Choir of Westminster Abbey
Martin Neary, conductor
Aline Brewer, harp
CBS/Sony 62615
3:51am
"Concertino Pastorale"
John Ireland
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
George Hurst, conductor
Chandos 8375
4:12am
"In the Bleak Midwinter"
Gustav Holst
Theatre of Voices
Paul Hillier, conductor
Harmonia Mundi 907079
4:17am
"Ave Maria," Op. 52, D. 839 (Ellens Gesang III)
Franz Schubert
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Mario Lanza, tenor
RCA 63260
4:25am
"Christmas Eve": Polonaise
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy, conductor
CBS/Sony 62647
4:31am
"Dream of 'Silent Night'"
Carl Nielsen
Elizabeth Westenholz, piano
Bis 167
4:38am
"Choral Fantasy" in C Minor, Op. 80
Ludwig van Beethoven
Orch Revolutionnaire et Romant
John Eliot Gardiner, conductor
Monteverdi Choir
Archiv 447771



EVENING MUSIC with Margaret Juntwait
9:30pm
"We Wish You a Merry Christmas"
Traditional English
Anton Del Forno, guitar
Juston Records 1077
9:32pm
"Good Christian Men, Rejoice"; "Silent Night"; "Patapan"; "O Come, All Ye Faithful"
Traditional
Robert Shaw Orchestra
Robert Shaw, conductor
Robert Shaw Chorale
RCA 6429
9:45pm
"We Three Kings"
Traditional
Cecilia Brauer, glass armonica
C.Brauer 01
9:49pm
"Four Christmas Motets"
Francis Poulenc
RIAS-Kammerchor
Marcus Creed, conductor
Harmonia Mundi 901588
10:02pm
"Once in Royal David's City"
Henry J. Gauntlett
Royal College of Music Brass Ensemble
David Willcocks, conductor
Royal College of Music Chamber Choir
Rykodisc RCD 10004
10:08pm
"Christmas in Beauvais"
Anonymous
Boston Camerata
Joel Cohen, conductor
Erato 75569
10:21pm
"A Christmas Suite"
Various Composers
Giovanni De Chiaro, guitar
Centaur 2262
10:35pm
"Fantasia on Christmas Carols"
Ralph Vaughan Williams
Guildford Choral Society
Dr. Bernard Rose, conductor
John Barrow, baritone
Angel/EMI 69872
10:48pm
"The Little Drummer Boy"
Anonymous
Greg Miner, sitar, tambura, esraj, tabla
Greg Miner/Delos 2102