Through the Night - 25/12/2009

Presented by Jonathan Swain. 1.00am Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Christmas Oratorio Evangelist ...... Jan Kobow (tenor) Ditte Andersen (soprano) Ann Hallenberg (contralto) Lars Johansson Brissman (bass) Swedish Radio Choir Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra Peter Dijkstra (conductor) 2.41am Haydn, Joseph (1732-1809): String Quartet in D, Op 64 No 5 (The Lark) Yggdrasil String Quartet: Fredrik Paulsson, Per Ohman (violins) Robert Westlund (viola) Per Nystrom (cello) 3.01am Vaughan Williams, Ralph (1872-1958): Hodie (A Christmas Cantata) - prologue Hungarian Radio Choir Hungarian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Tamas Vasary (conductor) 3.05am Villa Lobos, Heitor (1887-1959): O Polichinello (Le polichinelle) - Rag doll (Prole do bebe - No 7) Valerie Tryon (piano) 3.06am Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolai (1844-1908), transcr. Rachmaninov: (The) Flight of the Bumble-Bee Valerie Tryon (piano) 3.08am Roussel, Albert (1869-1937): Suite (Le festin de l'araignee, Op 17) Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Bernard Haitink (conductor) 3.26am Beethoven, Ludwig van (1770-1827): Notturno for piano and viola, O p 42 (arr. from Serenade, Op 8) Gisela Bergman (viola) Patricia Verhagen (piano) 3.47am Anon (12th century): Natali regis glorie - hymn 3.5am Anon: Lullay, lullow - carol 3.54am Anon: Ther is no rose (sic) 3.58am Trad. French: Noel Nouvelet Zefiro Torna Jurgen De Bruyn (lute/director) 4.01am Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791): Quintet in E flat for piano, oboe, clarinet, horn and bassoon, K452 Leif Ove Andsnes (piano) Kari Krikku (clarinet) Albrecht Meyer (oboe) Jonathan Williams (horn) Per Hannisdal (bassoon) 4.25am Nowowiejski, Felix (1877-1946): Weihnacht in der uralten Marienkirche zu Krak au. Fantasie Felix Nowowiejski Waclaw Golonka (organ - Sv Vojtech, Prague, built in 1877 by GF Steinmeyer and Co) 4.33am Guilmant, Alexandre (1837-1911): Introduction and Variations on a Polish Noel Michael Dudman (organ) 4.36am Heyral, Marc (b.19??), arr Gaston Rochon: Le Noel de la Rue (1952) 4.41am Traditional carol: Entre le boeuf et l'ane gris Richard Pare (harpsichord) Les chanteurs de Saint-Coeur-de-Marie Claude Gosselin (conductor) 4.45am Handel, Georg Frideric (1685-1759): Susser Blumen Ambraflocken, HWV204 (German Arias - No 3) 4.51am Handel: Die ihr aus dunkeln Gruften den eiteln Mammon grabt, HWV208 (German Arias - No 7) Helene Plouffe (violin) Louise Pellerin (oboe) Dom Andre Laberge (organ - 1999 Karl Wilhelm at the abbey church Saint-Benoit-du-Lac) 4.56am Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon (1562-1621): Hodie Christus natus est Toronto Mendelssohn Youth Choir Hannaford Street Silver Band: Stuart Laughton, James Gardiner (solo trumpets) Edward Moroney (organ) John Rutter (conductor) 5.01am Dupre, Marcel (1886-1971): Variations on Adeste fideles Tong-Soon Kwak (Rieger organ at the Torch Centre for World Missions in Seoul, Korea) 5.09am Goodall, Howard (b.1958): Romance of the Angels Robert Quinney (organ) BBC Singers Stephen Cleobury (conductor) 5.14am Samuel-Rousseau, Marcel (1882-1955): Variations Pastorales sur un vieux Noel Erica Goodman (harp) Members of the Amadeus Ensemble: Moshe Hammer, Barry Schifman (violins) Douglas Perry (viola) Jack Mendelssohn (cello) 5.24am Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897): Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Op 56a - version for orchestra (St Antoni Chorale) Oslo Philharmonic Marek Janowski (conductor) 5.40am Nenov, Dimitar (1901-1953): The Holy One Sofia Chamber Choir Vassil Arnaudov (conductor) 5.44am Buxtehude, Dietrich (1637-1707): Prelude in G minor, BuxWV 149 Lorenzo Ghielmi (harpsichord) 5.52am Forster, Kaspar (1616-1673): Dulcis amor Jesu, KBPJ 16 Olga Pasiecznik, Marta Boberska (soprano) Il Tempo 6.01am Mendelssohn, Felix (1809-1847): String Octet in E flat, Op 20 (1825) Kodaly Quartet Bartok String Quartet 6.29am Bach, Johann Sebastian (1685-1750): Komm, heiliger Geist - chorale-prelude for organ, BWV652 Bine Katrine Bryndorf (organ - Hjertling Church, Jutland) 6.38am Henderson, Ruth Watson (b.1932): Come Holy Spirit - for SATB with organ accompaniment Matthew Larkin (organ) Elmer Iseler Singers Lydia Adams (conductor) 6.43am Salzedo, Carlos (1885-1961): Concert Variations on O Tannenbaum Judy Loman (harp) 6.48am Anon (16th century): Branles 6.49am Anon (16th century): Suite Hortus Musicus Andres Mustonen (conductor) 6.57am Cornelius, Peter (1824-74), arr. Ruth Watson Henderson: Three Kings Ben Heppner (tenor) Toronto Children's Chorus Members of the Toronto Symphony Orchestra Jean Ashworth Bartle (conductor).