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Christmas Eve Breakfast with Petroc Trelawny. Petroc presents a musical Christmas feast, opens the penultimate window in our musical advent calendar and plays another suggestion for our year-long Breakfast Best of British Playlist.
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2 hours, 30 minutes

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Christmas Eve 2014 06:30

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Adolphe Adam

O holy night (Minuit, chretiens) - noel, arr. misc. for voice & orch
Ensemble: The Abbey Road Ensemble. Performer: Jonathan Tunick. Singer: Roberto Alagna.
- EMI.
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

Christmas Eve Suite
Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
- Decca.
Hector Berlioz

L'enfance du Christ (L'adieu des bergers)
Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
- Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ: Sir Colin Davis, LSO, Tenebrae Choir.
- LSO Live.
Johannes Brahms

Intermezzo in E flat major, Op.117 no.1 'Schlummerlied'
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
- Brahms: Piano Works Op.116, 117 and 119.
- Philips.
- 8.
Trad.

Sussex Carol
Performer: The Carnival Band. Singer: Maddy Prior and The Carnival Band.
Franz Schubert

4 Impromptus D.899, Op.90 for piano – no.4 in A flat
Performer: Andreas Haefliger.
- Sony.
Gustav Holst

Old English Carols - arr. for brass ensemble
Jacqueline Burley

Can it Be True?
Performer: BBC Singers.
Benjamin Britten

A Ceremony of carols for boys' voices and harp (Op.28), no.2; Wolcum Yole!
Conductor: Stephen Layton. Performer: Sally Pryce. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Saint Nicolas: Trinity College Choir, City of Lon.
- Hyperion.
Benjamin Britten

A Ceremony of carols for boys' voices and harp (Op.28), no.4b; Balulalow
Conductor: Stephen Layton. Performer: Sally Pryce. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Saint Nicolas: Trinity College Choir, City of Lon.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
Benjamin Britten

A Ceremony of carols for boys' voices and harp (Op.28), no.5; As dew in Aprille
Conductor: Stephen Layton. Performer: Sally Pryce. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Saint Nicolas: Trinity College Choir, City of Lon.
- Hyperion.
- 6.
Benjamin Britten

A Ceremony of carols for boys' voices and harp (Op.28), no.6; This little Babe
Conductor: Stephen Layton. Performer: Sally Pryce. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Britten: A Ceremony of Carols, Saint Nicolas: Trinity College Choir, City of Lon.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Symphony no. 7 (Op.92) in A major, 3rd movement; Presto
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.
- Beethoven For All: The Symphonies: Daniel Barenboim.
- Decca.
Claudio Monteverdi

Zefiro torna - ciaconna for 2 tenors & bc
Singer: Ian Partridge. Singer: Nigel Rogers. Singer: Christopher Keyte. Performer: Colin Tilney.
- Monteverdi - Caccini - Peri - Saracini: Canti Amorosi.
- Archiv Produktion.
- 5.
Carl Nielsen

Dream on 'Silent night' [Drommen om 'Glade Jul'] for piano (FS.34)
Performer: Martin Roscoe.
- Carl Nielsen: Complete piano music: Martin Roscoe.
- Hyperion.
- 5.
Francis Poulenc

Rondeau (Les biches)
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
- Paris 1920: Orchestre de Paris/Semyon Bychkov.
- Philips.
- 2.
Sergei Prokofiev

Lieutenant Kije - Troika
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
- Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije / Alexander Nevsky: Abbado/Chicago SO.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 11.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Sleeping beauty - suite (Op.66a), Panorama
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: James Levine.
- Tchaikovsky: Ballet suites: Levine.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 10.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

The Sleeping beauty - suite (Op.66a), Waltz
Conductor: James Levine. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
- Tchaikovsky: Ballet suites: Levine.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 11.
Pierre Villette

Hymne a la Vierge
Choir: Rodolfus Choir. Director: Ralph Allwood.
- Herald.
Émile Waldteufel

Les Patineurs, Op 183
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
- With love from Vienna: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
- Philips.
- 2.
Peter Warlock

Bethlehem Down
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Graham Ross.
- Veni Emmanuel - Music for Advent.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 16.
Juan García de Zéspedes

Convidando está la noche
Ensemble: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
- New World Symhonies.
- HYPERION.
- 15.
Jacqueline Burley

Can it be true?
Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: David Hill. Lyricist: Susan Hill.
Giovanni Gabrieli

Sonata Pian e Forte a 8
Ensemble: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.
- Collins Classics.
Jean Sibelius

Finlandia, Op.26
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
- DG.
John Rutter

The Shepherd's Pipe Carol
Conductor: Paul Brough. Performer: Richard Pearce. Choir: BBC Singers. Choir: Come and Sing Choir.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Brandenburg concerto no. 6 (BWV.1051) in B flat major, 1st movement
Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
- Bach: Brandenburg Concertos, English Baroque Soloists.
- Soli Deo Gloria.
- 7.