Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Morten Lauridsen
  "Dirait-on" from "Les Chansons des Roses"
  The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
  
• Peter Tchaikovsky
  "The Waltz of the Flowers" from "The Nutcracker"
  The Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor Valery Gergiev
  Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  
• Anonymous
  "Gaudens in Domino"
  In Mulieribus with conductor Anna Song and soloists Heather Roszczyk, Shaelyn Schneider, and Catherine van der Salm
  St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon
  
• John Dowland
  "The Earle of Essex, His Galliard"
  The Royal Wind Music with conductor Paul Leenhouts
  Boston Early Music Festival, Boston
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Cantata I from "Christmas Oratorio," BWV 248
  The Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and Swedish Radio Chorus with conductor Peter Dijkstra, soprano Ditte Andersen, contralto Ann Hallenberg, tenor Jan Kobow, and bass Lars Johansson Brissman
  Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• Peter Tchaikovsky
  "The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy" from "The Nutcracker"
  The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra with conductor JoAnn Falletta
  Kleinhans Music Hall, Buffalo, New York
  
• Morten Lauridsen
  "O Magnum Mysterium"
  The Dale Warland Singers with conductor Dale Warland
  Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul, Minnesota
  
• Georg Muffat
  Giga from Concerto No. 7
  The Holland Baroque Society with conductor Matthew Halls
  Jacobikerk, Utrecht, the Netherlands
  

hour 2

• George Frideric Handel
  Suite from "Judas Maccabaeus"
  Solid Brass
  
• Cecil Sharp
  "The Holly and the Ivy"
  The Imani Winds
  
• Hugh Martin
  "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
  The Imani Winds
  
• George Frideric Handel
  Selections from "The Messiah"
  Apollo's Fire with conductor and harpsichordist Jeannette Sorrell, soprano Amanda Forsythe and mezzo-soprano Elizabeth Shammash
  St. Paul's Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
  
• George Frideric Handel
  "Joy to the World"
  The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble