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Program: Classical Music with Mike McKay
Aired: Tuesday, December 17, 2019 @ 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 | |
| Franz Joseph Haydn · Concerto in G for flute, oboe, strings & 2 horns, Hob.VIIh:2 Cologne Chamber Orchestra Benoît Fromanger, flute; Christian Hommel, oboe Naxos 85704 81 "Haydn: Concertos for Two Lire Organizzate" | |
| Leroy Anderson · "A Christmas Festival" Boston Pops Orchestra; Tangelwood Festival Chorus Sony Classical 48232 "Joy To the World" | |
| Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Arabian Dance, from The Nutcracker Philharmonia Orchestra Sony Classical 45631 "The Christmas Album" | |
| Gregor Joseph Werner · Christmas Pastorella Academy of Ancient Music Decca 410 17 9-2 "Christmas Concertos" | |
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Divertimento No. 12 in Eb, K. 252 Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Deutsche Grammophon 419192 "Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik; 2 Divertimenti" | |
| Traditional English · "The Twelve Days of Christmas" Orchestra of St. Luke's; American Boychoir; Christmas Concert Ch Kathleen Battle, soprano; Frederica von Stade, mezzo-soprano Sony Classical 48235 "A Carnegie Hall Christmas Concert" | |
| Anonymous 15th century England · "Nowell / True Tidings" Anonymous 4 Susan Hellauer, vocal solo Harmonia Mundi 807453 "The Cherry Tree - Songs, Carols & Ballads for Christmas" | |
| Jacob Handl de Gallus · "Resonet in Laudibus" (Shouts of Joy) Choir of Trinity Church, Wall Street, NYC Naxos 8.5558 86 "Christmas at Trinity" | |
6 am | |
| George Frideric Handel · Oboe Concerto No. 2 in Bb, HWV 302a English Chamber Orchestra Heinz Holliger, oboe Philips 426082 "Handel: Oboe Concertos" | |
| Gustav Holst · Christmas Day (Choral Fantasy on Old Carols) Solid Brass Dorian Recordings 90114 "Christmas With Solid Brass" | |
| Paul McCartney · "Wonderful Christmastime" Choral Scholars of King's College, Cambridge Quilisma 401 "Christmas with the Choral Scholars" | |
| Traditional Irish · "Wexford Carol" Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Orchestra at Temple Square Shane Warby, baritone; Daron Bradford, penny whistle Mormon Tabernacle 70071 "Spirit of the Season" | |
| Johannes Brahms · Symphony No. 2 in D, Op. 73 (finale) New York Philharmonic Sony Classical 61829 "Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3" | |
| David Overton · Fantasia on "I Saw Three Ships" Royal Philharmonic Orchestra James Galway, flute RCA 61233 "James Galway's Christmas Carol" | |
| Traditional · A Canadian Brass Christmas Carol (arr. by Howard Cable) The Canadian Brass BWE Classics 0196 "A Christmas Gloria" | |
| Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck · "Hodie Christus natus est" (Today Christ is born) Vasari Singers Naxos 857303 0 "A Winter's Light" | |
| Traditional English · "The Holly and the Ivy" Trinity Choir, Trinity Church, Boston Sono Luminus 93240 "A Choral Christmas" | |
| Richard Rodgers · Carousel Waltz, from "Carousel" Hollywood Bowl Orchestra Philips 434932 "Rodgers and Hammerstein: Opening Night - The Overtures" | |
7 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · "Magnificat" from Magnificat in D, BWV 243 Geddchtniskirche, Stuttgart, Germany Sony Legacy 87771 "The Ultimate Classical Christmas Album of All Time" | |
| Traditional German · Three German Carols (O Tannenbaum; Holy Night; The Christmas Tree is a Beautiful Tree) Bielfeld Children's Choir Gerhard Bunk, organ EMI Classics 62576 "Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht - Bielfelder Kinderchor" | |
| Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach · Symphony No. 4 in A, Wq.182 Capella Istropolitana Naxos 8.5532 85 "C.P.E. Bach: 'Hamburg' Symphonies, Wq. 182" | |
| Bryan Kelly · Improvisations on Christmas Carols The City of Prague Philharmonic Naxos 8.5570 99 "Hely-Hutchinson: A Carol Symphony" | |
| Dag Wiren · Serenade for Strings, Op. 11 Stockholm Sinfonietta BIS 285 "A Swedish Serenade" | |
| Traditional American · Medley of Christmas Spirituals Chanticleer Chanticleer 8803 "Our Heart's Joy - A Chanticleer Christmas" | |
8 am | |
| Anton Bruckner · Symphony No. 4 in Eb "Romantic" (iii. Scherzo) Gewandhaus Orchestra, Leipzig Deutsche Grammophon 002793 502 "Bruckner: Symphony No. 4" | |
| Anonymous 17th century English · "The Old Year Now Away is Fled" (Greensleeves) Parthenia, A Consort of Viols Julianne Baird, soprano MSR 1365 "As It Fell On A Holie Eve - Music for an Elizabethan Chris | |
| Traditional · Improvisation on Dona Nobis Pacem (Give Us Peace) Paquito D'Rivera, clarinet; Alon Yavnai, piano Sony 733336 "Songs Of Joy And Peace: Yo-Yo Ma" | |
| Traditional English · "The Yorkshire Wassail Song" Theatre of Voices Harmonia Mundi 297707 9 "Carols from the Old and New Worlds" | |
| Traditional · Brass Interlude Medley of Carols RCA Victor Brass Ensemble RCA Victor 61910 "Christmas Sing-Along" | |
| Jean-Baptiste Lully · The Bourgeois Gentleman, selections Le Concert des Nations (The Concert of Nations) Alia Vox 9807 "Jean-Baptiste Lully: L'orchestre du roi soleil" | |
| Traditional · Medley: "The holly and the ivy"; "See amid the winter snow"; "I saw three ships" Empire Chamber Ensemble; NY Chorale Society; American Boy Choir Jessye Norman, soprano Philips 420180 "Christmastide - Jessye Norman" | |
| Camille Saint-Saens · Africa Fantasy, Op. 89 City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra Stephen Hough, piano Hyperion 67331/ 2 "Saint-Saens: The Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra" | |