Thank you to listeners in Gaylord, Cedar, Northport, Wolverine and many other places for your requests this week.
1. Various, Happy Holidays Medley; Keith Lockhart/Boston Pops Orchestra & Tanglewood Festival Chorus
2. Dan Forrest, Carol of Joy; Ronald Staheli/BYU Choirs and Orchestra
3. Traditional, Lord of the Dance; John Langstaff/Christmas Revels
4. Sergei Prokofiev, Piano Concerto no. 4 (third and fourth movements); Andre Previn/London Symphony Orchestra/Vladimir Ashkenazy
5. Leon Boellmann, Toccata from Gothic Suite; Carlo Curley
6. Twas the Night Before Christmas; Fred Waring & the Pennsylvanians (1942 recording)
7. Gerald Finzi, Eclogue for piano and strings; William Boughton/English String Orchestra/Martin Jones
8. All is Well, Parijat
9. Bela Fleck, Blue Spruce; Bela Fleck & Edgar Meyer
10. Traditional, What Child is This? Kathleen Battle
11. Alessandro Scarlatti, O di Betlemme altera (Christmas cantata), selections; Trevor Pinnock/English Concert/Nancy Argenta
12. Christmas selections; John Rutter/ Cambridge Singers/City of London Sinfonia
13. Christmas selections; Robert Shaw Chorale
14. Johannes Brahms, Hungarian Dances nos. 10-13; Duo Tal & Groethuysen
15. Giacomo Puccini, excerpt from Act II of La boheme; Gianna d’Angelo et al.
16. Pietro Yon, Gesu Bambino; Jessye Norman
17. David Saygers, Good King Wenceslas Fugue; Tower Brass Quintet
18. William Neidlinger, Birthday of a King; Judy Garland
19. Antonio Vivaldi, Gloria (selections); Sir David Willcocks/Choir of King’s College Cambridge
20. Traditional, Betelehemu; Morehouse College Glee Club
21. Irving Berlin, White Christmas; Bing Crosby
22. Traditional, The Boar’s Head Carol; Martin Neary/Choir of Westminster Abbey
23. Aaron Jay Kernis, String Quartet no. 1 “Musica celestis” (second movement); Lark Quartet
24. Johann Strauss II, Fest-marsch; Lorin Maazel/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
25. Rachel Portman, Cider House Rules (selections); original motion picture soundtrack
26. George Frederic Handel, “Every valley shall be exalted” from Messiah; John Butt/Dunedin Consort & Players; Nicholas Mulroy
27. Randall Thompson, Alleluia; Dale Warland Singers
28. Adolphe Adam, O Holy Night; Luciano Pavarotti
29. Ludwig van Beethoven, Symphony no. 7 (second movement); Kenneth Schemerhorn/Nashville Symphony Orchestra
30. Richard Strauss, Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks; Herbert von Karajan/Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
[bonus: Christmas selections performed by The Klezmonauts]
