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Thu 19 Dec 201923:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bo Holten

    First Snow (part 1)

    Choir: BBC Singers. Conductor: Bo Holten.
    • DaCapo.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto RV 270a 'Il Riposo per il Santissimo Natale' (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Ewa Golińska. Ensemble: Arte dei Suonatori. Director: Martin Gester.
    • BIS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Leiermann (Winterreise)

    Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ashley Riches.

  • Peter Warlock

    Pieds en l'air (Capriol Suite)

    Orchestra: BBC Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Keith Lockhart.

  • Ólafur Arnalds

    Carry me anew (For now I am Winter)

    Performer: Ólafur Arnalds.
    • Mercury Classics.

  • Benjamin Britten

    In the Bleak Midwinter (A Boy was Born)

    Performer: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Traditional Irish

    On a Cold Winter's Day

    Performer: Andrew Lawrence‐King.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Traditional Neapolitan

    Sankta Lucia

    Performer: Svante Henryson. Performer: Markus Leoson. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

Broadcast

  • Thu 19 Dec 201923:00
    BBC Radio 3

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