What are you listening to now?

[Michael]

Ninth.

[Roehre]

Today:

Lipatti:
Fantasy for piano opus 8 (1940) (R3: TtN)

Beethoven:
Gratulationsmenuett WoO 3 (1822)
Violin concerto op.61 (BBC MM CD / BBCSO-Menuhin rec.1948)

Vaughan Williams:
Dona nobis Pacem (1936) (BBC MM CD with RVW’s own recording dating from 1936)

Britten:
A Ceremony of Carols op.28

Pettersson:
Symphony no.8 (1968/’69)

Stenhammar:
2 Sentimental Romances for violin and orchestra op.28 (1910)

Bartok:
Dance suite (R 3 Live in Concert)

Kurtag:
…Concertante… opus 42 (2003) (R 3 Live in Concert)

[Johan]

Deum Patrem omnipotentem

Beethoven Mass in C major.
Soloists Susan Dunn, Margarita Zimmermann, Bruno Beccaria and (the Finn) Tom Krause. RIAS- Chamber choir, Chamberchoir Ernst Senfl. RSO Berlin dir. Riccardo Chailly. (1986).

[Sorrano]

This weekend: Beethoven Symphonies No. 2, 4, and 9

[Michael]

Nothing.
Silence is golden.

[Roehre]

Today:

Bridge:
The Christmas Rose (1919-1929)

Vaughan Williams:
On Christmas Night – A masque adapted from A Christmas Carol (1926)

Pettersson:
Symphony no.9 (1970)

Zemlinsky:
Lyrische symphonie op.18 (1921)

Respighi:
Deita silvane (1917)
Nebbie (1899)
Aretusa (1918)

[Megan]

15:00 Church of St Simon and St Jude, Prague, Czech Republic
Musica Florea perform music by one of the most important Bohemian baroque composers, Jan Dismas Zelenka, much admired by JS Bach. We'll hear two of his many sacred vocal works.

Zelenka: Magnificat in C, ZWV107
Zelenka: Missa Nativitatis Domini, ZWV8

Barbara Sojkova (soprano)
Sylva Cmugrova (alto)
Jan Onderjka (tenor)
Tomas Kral (baritone)
Musica Florea
Marek Styncl (director)

[Megan]

Tallis Scholars, Lullaby, by William Byrd.

[Peter]

Schubert piano sonatas in A minor (D 784), G major (D 894) and C minor (D 958).

[Roehre]

Today:
Hely-Hutchinson:
Carol Symphony

Vaughan Williams:
Fantasy on Christmas Carols (1913)

JSBach:
Cantata BWV 132 “Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn” (1715) for Advent 4 (today)

Sweelinck:
Hodie Christus natus est (p.1619)

Pettersson:
Symphony no.10 (1970-‘72)
Symphony no.11 (1973)

Berg:
3 Stücke für Orchester op.6 (1915)

Respighi:
La Sensitiva (1929)

[Preston]

Just bought 3 albums on Amazon mp3 - 99 Essential Vivaldi, Mozart, and Chopin. So am starting to make my through those, starting with the master of the concerto.

[Roehre]

Today:

Vaughan Williams:
The First Nowell - a Nativity Play (1958)

Pettersson:
Symphony no.12 “De Döda pa torget” (1973)

Arnold:
Song of Simeon op.69 (1960)

Honegger:
Une Cantate de Noël (1953)

[Sorrano]

This morning: Glazunov's Violin Concerto in A

[Roehre]

Today:

Ruppe:
Kerstcantate (Christmas cantata) (1796)

Hindemith:
Tuttifäntchen (1922)

Sibelius:
5 Christmas songs opus 1

Rodrigo:
Villancicos y Canciones de Navidad (1952)

Pettersson:
Symphony no.13 (1976)

Stenhammar:
Florez og Bianzeflor op.3
Midvinter op.24

[Roehre]

Today:

Schubert:
Winterrreise D.911 (arr. tenor + string quartet Jens Josef 2002)

Benjamin;
A Mind of Winter (1981)

Henze:
Royal Winter Music I (1976)
Royal Winter Music II (1981)

Britten:
A Boy was born op.3

Pettersson:
Symphony no.14 (1978)

12C Anonymous French:
Messe de la Nativité