Sunday Morning - Considering Christmas...

Iain Burnside present a piquant take on Christmas and its music. Joined by historian Kate Williams, who shares with Iain her thoughts about how the Victorians did so much to create the traditions we now take for granted, Iain plays five centuries of Christmas music, from Thomas Tallis to Morten Lauridsen. Bach: Cantata, BWV70 Chorus: Wachet! Betet! Betet! Wachet! Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) SDG 162 CD2 Track 1 Dur: 3m33s Lauridsen: O Magnum Mysterium Polyphony Stephen Layton (conductor) Hyperion CDA67449 Track 14 Dur: 6m40s Scriabin: Sonata No 3 (3rd and 4th mvts) Vladimir Sofronitsky (piano) Philips 456 970 2 CD2 Tracks 3, 4 Dur: 10m03s Ariel Ramirez, arr Timothy- Wayne-Knight: La Peregrinacion The King's Singers SIGNUM SIGCD502 Track 21 Dur: 3m09s Bach: Cantata, BWV61 Recit: Siehe ich stehe vor der Tur/aria Offne dich, main ganzes Herze Dietrich Henschel Joanne Lunn English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) SDG 162 CD1 Tracks 4, 5 Dur: 5m00s Holst/Rosetti: In the Bleak Midwinter The Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) Collins Classics 13002 Track 13 Dur: 4m20s Jean Mouton: Nesciens mater The Sixteen Harry Christophers (conductor) Hyperion CDA 66263 Track 15 Dur: 5m45s Berlioz: L'enfance du Christ (Excerpt from Part 2 - Shepherds Farewell) Orchestra des Champs-Elysees Collegium Vocale Ghent La Chapelle Royale Philippe Herrreweghe (conductor) Harmonia Mundi HMX 2971632.33 CD2 Track 2 Dur: 4m30s Finzi: Dies Natalis (Excerpt - Wonder) Wilfred Brown English Chamber Orchestra Christopher Finzi (conductor) EMI CDM 7633722 Track 10 Dur: 4m15s Bach: Cantata, BWV147 Chorus: Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) SDG 162 Cd2 Track 18 Dur: 3m48s Bach/Hess: Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring Angela Hewitt (piano) Hyperion CDA 67309 Track 7 Dur: 3m50s Mozart: Rivolgete a lui lo sguardo Thomas Quasthoff Wurttemberg Chamber Orchestra Jorg Faerber (conductor) RCA 09026614282 Track 5 Dur: 5m50s Green/Robin: Something in the Wind Deanna Durbin EMI 7013602 Track 15 Dur: 2m59s John Rutter: What sweeter music Tenebrae Nigel Short (conductor) SIGCD182 Track 3 Dur: 4m46s Tchaikovsky, transcr M Pletnev: Concert Suite: Andante maestoso (Pas de Deux) - The Nutcracker Simon Trpceski (piano) EMI 575 202 2 Track 7 Dur: 5m15s Thomas Tallis: Sanctus/Benedictus (Mass - for seven voices - Puer natus est nobis) Tallis Scholars Peter Philips (conductor) Gimell 4549342 Track 2 Dur: 7m20s Bach: Chorus: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland (Cantata, BWV62) Monteverdi Choir English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner (conductor) SDG 162 Cd1 Track 7 Dur: 4m42s Harry Warren, arr Alasdair Nicholson: 42nd Street Joanna MacGregor (piano) Sound Circus SC002 Track 6 Dur: 3m41s.