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Program: Classical Music with Mike McKay
Aired: Wednesday, December 20, 2023 @ 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 | |
| John Rutter · "Gloria" Choir Of King's College, Cambridge; City of Birmingham Symphony EMI Classics 57952 "Rutter: Gloria" | |
| Ottorino Respighi · Ancient Airs and Dances Suite No. 3 Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra EMI Classics 86549 "Respighi: Pines of Rome, etc." | |
| John Harbison · Little Fantasy on "The Twelve Days of Christmas" The Canadian Brass BWE Classics 0196 "A Christmas Gloria" | |
| Robert Mayeur · Noel for Four Guitars San Francisco Guitar Quartet Brandon Yip, David Duenas, Patrick Francis, Chris Hanford, guitars Brandon Yip 574821 "Magnificat" | |
| Franz Joseph Haydn · Trumpet Concerto in Eb The Boston Pops Orchestra (rec. 1964) Al Hirt, trumpet RCA Victor Red Seal LSC-27 29 "Pops Goes the Trumpet (Holiday for Brass)" | |
6 am | |
| Jerry Herman · We Need a Little Christmas (in style of Beethoven) The Hampton String Quartet RCA Victor 60246 "What If Mozart Wrote 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christm | |
| Daniel Hooper · "A Garland of Carols" The Choral Project Clarion 941 "Yuletide" | |
| Johan Wagenaar · Vienna Waltz cycle, Op. 38 Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Decca 425833 "Wagenaar: Orchestral Works" | |
| Traditional · The Golden Carol Delmoni String Quartet Arturo Delmoni, Alexander Romanul, violins; Katherine Murdock, viola; Nathaniel Rosen, cello Listen 50001 "A String Quartet Christmas" | |
| Traditional Medley · "Veni, Veni,""Midnight Clear,""O Little Town,""Silent Night" etc Orchestra of St. Luke's; New York Choral Artists; Boys Choir of Kathleen Battle, soprano Angel 47587 "Kathleen Battle - A Christmas Celebration" | |
| Leo Delibes · Sylvia, ballet suite Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra LaserLight 15616 "Delibes: Coppelia - Gounod: Faust" | |
| Victor Herbert · March of the Toys, from "Babes in Toyland" St. Louis Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Red Seal 60778 "The American Album" | |
| Traditional French · Angels We Have Heard on High (arr. by Paul Horn) Paul Horn, flutes Kuckuck 11083- 2 "Paul Horn - The Peace Album" | |
7 am | |
| Jean-Joseph Mouret · First Suite of Symphonies Paris Orchestral Ensemble Maurice Andre, trumpet EMI Classics 47140 "Baroque Suites & Concertos for Trumpets" | |
| Traditional · "O Little Town of Bethlehem" Choirs of Coventry & Lichfield Cathedrals; BBC Philharmonic Jouko Harjanne, trumpet Teldec 99000 "Christmas with Kiri Te Kanawa" | |
| Michael Praetorius · Lo, how a rose e'er blooming American Horn Quartet; Queensland Symphony Horns MSR 1650 "The Christmas Album" | |
| George Frideric Handel · "For Unto Us a Child is Born" from "Messiah" The Cambridge Singers; City of London Sinfonia Collegium Records 512 "The Cambridge Singers Christmas Album" | |
| Florence Price · Dances in the Canebreaks (arr. by William Grant Still) Chicago Sinfonietta Cedille 185 "Project W - Works by Diverse Women Composers" | |
| Bryan Kelly · Improvisations on Christmas Carols The City of Prague Philharmonic Naxos 8.5570 99 "Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony" | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K. 467 (1st mvt.) Chamber Orchestra of Europe Maria Joao Pires, piano Deutsche Grammophon 439941 "Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 17 & 21" | |
8 am | |
| Franz Biebl · "Ave Maria" The American Spiritual Ensemble The American Spiritua l En 884501 2147 "The Spirit of the Holidays" | |
| William J. Kirkpatrick · Away in a Manger (w/ Beethoven's Sonata Op. 14, No. 2, Mvt. 3) Pamela Howland, piano Pamela Howland 613557 9621 "Christmas with Beethoven - 9 Classic Carols" | |
| Charles Ives · "A Christmas Carol" The Dale Warland Singers Augsberg 4-11 "Christmas Echoes, vol. 1" | |
| Franz Joseph Haydn · Symphony No. 82 in C "The Bear" (1st mvt.) Heidelberg Symphony Hänssler Classics 98265 "Haydn: Symphonies 82, 88, 95" | |
| Felix Mendelssohn · Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Canadian Brass Steinway & Sons 30027 "Christmastime is Here" | |
| Traditional French · Noel! Noel! Duo Campion-Vachon Guy Campion, Mario Vachon, piano 4-hands Analekta 9816 "Noël Pianissimo" | |
| Nigel Hess · A Christmas Overture Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Collegium Records 133 "A Christmas Festival" | |
| Johannes Brahms · Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80 Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra RCA Victor Red Seal 7980 "Brahms: 4 Symphonies, etc" | |
| Traditional English · The Cherry Tree Carol Mark O'Connor, violin; Brent Mason, guitar and friends OMAC Records 16 "An Appalachian Christmas" | |
| Traditional English · We Wish You a Merry Christmas (arr. by Mark O'Connor) Mark O'Connor, violin; Brent Mason, guitar and friends OMAC Records 16 "An Appalachian Christmas" | |
| Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Symphony No. 5 in e, Op. 64 (iii. Waltz) Strasbourg Philharmonic Orchestra Warner Classics n/a "Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5" | |
9 am | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Piano Quartet No. 2 in Eb, K. 493 (finale) Faure Quartet Dirk Mommertz, piano; Erika Geldsetzer, violin; Sascha Frombling, viola; Konstantin Heidrich, cello Deutsche Grammophon 477588 5 "Mozart: Piano Quartets" | |
| Victor Hely-Hutchinson · A Carol Symphony (i. Allegro energetico: Adeste fideles) The City of Prague Philharmonic Naxos 855709 9 "Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony" | |
| Traditional American · Go Tell It On the Mountain (interpolated with Chopin's Funeral March, from Sonata No. 2 in bb) Jeffrey Biegel, piano Koch International 7737 "Classical Carols" | |
| David Overton · Fantasia on "I Saw Three Ships" Royal Philharmonic Orchestra James Galway, flute RCA 61233 "James Galway's Christmas Carol" | |
| Alexander Glazunov · Carnaval, concert overture Boston Pops Orchestra RCA High Performance 74321- 9471 "Bizet-Schedrin: Carmen Ballet" | |
| Traditional French · "Angels We Have Heard on High" RCA Victor Singers RCA Victor 61910 "Christmas Sing-Along" | |
| Leroy Anderson · Sleigh Ride Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Decca 001609 202 "The Colors of Christmas" | |
| Traditional Finnish · "Elves Around the Christmas Tree" suite Tapiola Choir; Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra Jorma Hynninen, baritone Ondine 828 "Jouluna Jumala Syntyi" | |
| Franz Schubert · Symphony No. 1 in D, D.82 (1st mvt.) Academy of St. Martin in the Fields Newton Classics 880203 3 "Schubert: The 10 Symphonies" | |