Helsinki and Vienna

Ian Skelly presents Radio 3's annual journey around Europe for a sequence of live and specially recorded concerts. The day begins live at Kallio Church in Helsinki for a programme of music for organ and wind quintet. Then to St Ulrich's Church, Vienna, where the Vienna Chamber Choir perform traditional Christmas songs.

1.05pm LIVE from Kallio Church, Helsinki
Sibelius: Bell Tune of Kallio Church
Trad arr Ahmas: 5 Finnish Christmas songs
Gaston Litaize: Variations on a Christmas song from Anjou
Sibelius: 5 Christmas Songs Op.1 arr for soprano and organ
Trad arr Ahmas: 4 Finnish Christmas songs
Suvi Väyrynen (soprano)
Zagros Wind Quintet
Jan Lehtola (organ)

2.00pm from St Ulrich's Church, Vienna
Sebastian Taschner: Hirten, wacht auf! (Premiere)
Michael J Richter: Leise dahin (Premiere)
Marina and Elena Hobarth: Punschlied (Premiere)
Elgar: Lux Aeterna
Ola Gjeilo: Serenity (O magnum Mysterium)
James MacMillan: O Radiant Dawn
Trad arr Gjeilo: In the Bleak Midwinter
Trad arr Gjeilo: O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
Max Reger: Es kommt ein Schiff geladen
Trad arr Hemedinger: Es bluh'n drei Rosen
Brahms: 'O Heiland, reiss die Himmel auf' - Motet, Op 74 No 2
Praetorius arr Sandtrom: Det ar en ros utsprungen
Vienna Chamber Choir
Youth Choir Academy, Vienna
Michael Grohotolsky (conductor)

Main image: Kallio Church, Helsinki (c) Getty Images.