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Program: Classical Music with Mike McKay
Aired: Monday, December 13, 2021 @ 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 | |
| Jules Massenet · Thais, ballet music from the opera Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Brilliant Classics 94355 "Jules Massenet: Ballet Suites" | |
| Stephen Chatman · "Christmas Joy" (medley of traditional carols) University of British Columbia Singers; A Touch of Brass Stephen Smith, organ; Quennie Wong, percussion Centrediscs 15509 "A Chatman Christmas" | |
| Luigi Boccherini · Cello Concerto No. 7 in G, G.480 German Chamber Academy of Neuss Johannes Goritzki, cello Claves 508713 "Boccherini: Sinfonia; Cellokonzerte; Serenade" Symphonies" | |
| Ottorino Respighi · The Adoration of the Magi, from Three Botticelli Pictures Eaken Piano Trio Con Brio 21345 "Eaken Trio: Most Wonderful Time" | |
6 am | |
| Hugo Wolf · Italian Serenade Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon 431680 "Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Sibelius: Valse Triste" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Jauchzet, Frohlocket (Rejoice, exult) from the Christmas Oratorio Pittsburgh Symphony Brass Timothy Adams, timpani; Richard Webster, organ Four Winds 3022 "The Spirit of Christmas" | |
| Franz Schubert · Symphony No. 8 in b "Unfinished" D.759 Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Royal Philharmonic 28130 "Beethoven: Symphony No. 5; Schubert: Symphony No. 8" | |
| Meredith Willson · "It's Beginning to Look a lot Like Christmas" (arr. by Alexander L'Estrange) The King's Singers Signum Classics 459 "The King's Singers - Christmas Songbook" | |
| Alfred Burt · "Caroling, Caroling" The Choral Project Clarion 941 "Yuletide" | |
| Felix Mendelssohn · Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream Utah Symphony Orchestra ProArte 187 "Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; Overtures" | |
7 am | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Serenade No. 7 in D, K. 250 "Haffner" (1st mvt.) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Philips 464022 "Mozart: Great Serenades" | |
| Richard S. Willis / Edmund H. Sears · "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" RCA Victor Singers William Whitehead, organ RCA Victor 61910 "Christmas Sing-Along" | |
| John Henry Hopkins · "We Three Kings of Orient Are" RCA Victor Singers William Whitehead, organ RCA Victor 61910 "Christmas Sing-Along" | |
| Traditional English · "Good King Wenceslas" RCA Victor Singers RCA Victor 61910 "Christmas Sing-Along" | |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach · Flute Concerto in A, Wq. 168 The Feinstein Ensemble Martin Feinstein, flute Black Box 1019 "CPE Bach Flute Concertos" | |
| Karl G. Lowe · "O Most Gracious, Welcome Child" Moramus Chorale, of Winston-Salem, NC Susan Bates, organ Raven OAR-86 0 "What Good News - An Old Salem Christmas" | |
| John Calkin · "I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" (text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (arr. by Jay Rouse) Choir of Myers Park United Methodist Church, Charlotte James R. Jones, piano; Nancy Hamff, flute; da Capo Brass Myers Park United Met hodi 888295 6725 "Expectation - Music of Christmas" | |
| Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Violin Concerto in D, Op. 35 (finale) Singapore Symphony Orchestra Gil Shaham, violin Canary Classics 4 "Chen / He: The Butterfly Lovers; Tchaikovsky: Violin Conce | |
8 am | |
| Sergei Rachmaninoff · Piano Concerto No. 3 in d, Op. 30 (finale) London Symphony Orchestra Valentina Lisitsa, piano Decca 001811 702 "Rachmaninov: The Piano Concertos" | |
| Traditional Catalan · "December's Cold Winds Were Stilled" Kathleen Battle, soprano; Christopher Parkening, guitar Sony Classical 62723 "Angel's Glory" | |
| Antonio Vivaldi · "Winter" Violin Concerto from "The Four Seasons" Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra Francisco Fullana, violin Avie 2485 "Vivaldi: The Four Seasons" | |
| Franz Liszt · Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6 Staatskapelle Weimar Naxos 857023 0 "Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies Nos. 1-6" | |
| Traditional French · "Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella" (arr. by Stephen Paulus) The Dale Warland Singers Jeffrey Van, guitar Ten Thousand Lakes 100 "Stephen Paulus - Carols for Christmas" | |
| John Henry Hopkins · "We Three Kings" (arr. by Stephen Paulus) The Dale Warland Singers Peter Hanslep, bass; Merilee Klemp, oboe; Kathy Kienzle, harp Ten Thousand Lakes 100 "Stephen Paulus - Carols for Christmas" | |
| Arthur Benjamin · Oboe Concerto (after Domenico Cimarosa sonatas) Arcata Chamber Orchestra Lajos Lencses, oboe Hänssler Classic 98467 "Oboe Italiano" | |