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Program: Classical Music with Mike McKay
Aired: Monday, December 18, 2017 @ 5:00 am
Hosted by Mike McKay
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Host Mike McKay brings you the best classical music to start your day.
Playlist
5 am | |
| Michael Davis · "Sing, Choir of Angels" (medley) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir; The Candian Brass BWE Classics 0196 "A Christmas Gloria" | |
| Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Pas de Deux, from The Nutcracker Stevan Pasero, guitar Sugo 8501 "The Nutcracker Suite for Guitar" | |
| Anton Bruckner · "Ave Maria" Berlin Handel Chorus Deutsche Grammophon 413671 "The Heavens are Sounding" | |
| Igor Stravinsky · Pulcinella Suite Orchestra of St. Luke's Musicmasters 370 "Stravinsky, The Composer, Vol. II" | |
| Georg Philipp Telemann · Trumpet Concerto in D English Chamber Orchestra Ole Edvard Antonsen, trumpet EMI Classics 54897 "Trumpet Concertos" | |
| Traditional French · "O come, O come Emmanuel" (interpolated with "What Child is This?") Domincan Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist (Ann Arbor, Mi Sony 541741 "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Christmas with the Domincan | |
| Traditional Welsh · "Deck the Hall" Cantus Cantus Recordings 1102 "Cantus - Tidings" | |
| Traditional Mexican · "La Virgen Lava Panales" (The Virgin Washes the Swaddling) The Mormon Tabernacle Choir; New York Philharmonic Sony Classical 63303 "The Joy of Christmas with Leonard Bernstein" | |
6 am | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Horn Concerto No. 2 in Eb, K. 417 Seattle Symphony Orchestra John Cerminaro, horn Crystal Records 515 "Cerminaro Plays Mozart" | |
| Ferdinand Ries · Variations on a Portuguese Hymn, Op. 152, No. 1 (actually the English carol, "Adeste Fideles") Uwe Grodd, flute; Matteo Napoli, piano Naxos 857203 8 "Ferdinand Ries: Works for Flute & Piano" | |
| Adolphe Adam · "O Holy Night" Vienna Philharmonic Leontyne Price, soprano Decca 460400 "The Greatest Christmas Show on Earth" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Concerto in c for 2 Harpsichords, BWV 1062 Academy for Ancient Music, Berlin Raphael Alpermann, Jorg Andreas Botticher, harpsichords Harmonia Mundi 901876 "J.S. Bach: Concertos" | |
| Traditional English · "The Cherry Tree Carol" The Beggar Boys (recorded live 12/12/2010 St. Alban's Episcopal Abigail Haynes Lennox, soprano; Larry Young, Michael Albert, Henry Lebedinsky n/a "A Celtic Christmas Live with the Beggar Boys" | |
| Irving Berlin · "White Christmas" Northwest Sinfonia Carl Tanner, tenor Bounty Prodcutions 17822 "Carl Tanner: Hear The Angel Voices" | |
| Traditional American · "Watts's Cradle Hymn" Westminster Abbey Choir & Consort Emma Kirkby, soprano; Michael Lees, countertenor; Tom Raskin, tenor Sony Classical 62688 "Adeste Fidelis - Christmas Down the Ages" | |
7 am | |
| Alexander Borodin · Overture to Prince Igor Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon 435 75 7-2 "Borodin Orchesterwerke" | |
| Gustav Holst · Christmas Day (Choral Fantasy on Old Carols) Solid Brass Dorian Recordings 90114 "Christmas With Solid Brass" | |
| Emile Waldteufel · The Skaters' Waltz Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Buffalo Philharmonic Orch 692863 1410 "Favorite Holiday Classics" | |
| Peter Warlock · Bethlehem Down, a carol for strings The City of Prague Philharmonic Naxos 8.5570 99 "Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony" | |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach · Symphony No. 3 in C, Wq.182 The English Concert Archiv Produktion 415300 "C.Ph.E. Bach: Die Sinfonien fur Streicher" | |
| Traditional German · "Christ was Born on Christmas Day" Robert Shaw Chamber Singers Telarc 80377 "Songs of Angels - Christmas Hymns and Carols" | |
| Daniel Hooper · "A Garland of Carols" The Choral Project Clarion 941 "Yuletide" | |
| Traditional Medley · We Three Kings; Ukrainian Bell Carol Peter Blanchette, archguitar Archguitar Music n/a "Archguitar Christmas" | |
| Antonio Vivaldi · Violin Concerto in D, RV 230 (Op. 3, No. 9) The Clarion Music Society Benjamin Hudson, violin Sony Classical 63284 "Vivaldi's Four Seasons and other Great Concertos" | |
8 am | |
| Leroy Anderson · "A Christmas Festival" Boston Pops Orchestra; Tangelwood Festival Chorus Sony Classical 48232 "Joy To the World" | |
| Giuseppe Verdi · Rigoletto Suite Cincinnati Pops Orchestra Telarc 80364 "Verdi Without Words" | |
| Traditional · "Pat-a-Drummer" (Patapan) (arr. by Katherine K. Davis) Cantus Cantus 1211 "Christmas with Cantus" | |
| Hugh Martin / Ralph Blane · "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" Capella SF Jonathan Dimmock, organ of St. Ignatius Church, San Francisco Delos 3485 "Light of Gold - Capella SF Christmas" | |
| Dag Wiren · Serenade for Strings, Op. 11 English String Orchestra Nimbus 5347 "Respighi's Aincient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3, etc." | |
| Victor Herbert · March of the Toys, from "Babes in Toyland" Rochester Pops Orchestra ProArte 841 "Christmas at the Pops" | |
| David Overton · Fantasia on "In dulci jubilo" Munich Radio Orchestra James Galway, flute RCA Victor Red Seal 60736 "In Dulci Jubilo - Christmas with James Galway" | |