The Carol Connection 1
Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or
Flash plugin.
In 1840, composer Felix Mendelssohn submitted two works for a celebration of the 400th anniversary of Gutenberg’s invention of the printing press.
The first was his Symphony No. 2. The other was a now-forgotten work for male chorus, whose tune would be borrowed 16 years later by a British hymnist to create one of the most famous of all Christmas carols.
In the next hour, classical works like Mendelssohn’s that have inspired Christmas songs, plus several traditional Christmas songs that have found their way into works by Respighi, Liszt, Bizet, Orff, and many others.
4:00 p.m.
BBC Welsh National Orchestra
Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 2
BBC Welsh National Orchestra; Hickox, conductor
4:01 p.m.
Kolping Choir of Stuttgart
Mendelssohn
Liebgesang
4:03 p.m.
Robert Shaw; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
TRADITIONAL
Many Moods of Christmas (Suite No. 3)
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra; Robert Shaw, conductor Atlanta Symphony Chorus
4:05 p.m.
Respighi
Three Botticelli Pictures
The Philharmonia ; Simon, conductor
4:13 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
March of the Kings
; Robert Shaw, conductor Robert Shaw Chamber Singers
4:14 p.m.
Bizet
LÆArlesienne Suite
London Festival Orchestra; Schulz, conductor
4:17 p.m.
Roland P÷ntinen
Franz Liszt
Weihnachtsbaum for Piano
Roland P÷ntinen
4:21 p.m.
William Henry Fry
Santa Claus "Christmas Symphony"
Royal Scottish National Orchestra ; Tony Rowe, conductor
4:29 p.m.
Bizet
LÆArlesienne Suite
London Festival Orchestra; Schulz, conductor
4:30 p.m.
Carl Orff
Patapan
Deller Consort
4:31 p.m.
New York Choral Artists
Praetorius
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
4:33 p.m.
Arditti String Quartet
Arnold Schoenberg
Weihnachtsmusik (Musique de Noel)
Arditti String Quartet Michel BΘroff
4:39 p.m.
Honegger
Christmas Cantata
BBC Singers and Choir of KingÆs College Cambridge
4:45 p.m.
TRADITIONAL
In the Bleak Midwinter
; Robert Shaw, conductor Shaw Chamber Singers
4:48 p.m.
George Frideric Handel
Adam
Cantique de Noδl for voice & orchestra 'O Holy Night'
Empire Chamber Ensemble; de Cormier, conductor
4:53 p.m.
Hely-Hutchinson
Carol Symphony
Pro Arte Orchestra; Rose, conductor
