Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Michael Convertino and Loreena McKennitt
  The Bells of Christmas
  The West Edge String Quartet
  
• Traditional Irish
  Jezebel Carol
  Ensemble Galilei
  Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville, Florida
  
• Franz Schubert
  Ave Maria, D. 839
  Marc-Andre Hamelin, piano
  92nd Street Y, New York City
  
• Harold Darke
  In the Bleak Midwinter
  The Brigham Young University Concert Choir, Rosalind Hall, director
  DeJong Concert Hall, Provo, Utah
  
• David Lang
  Dearest Heart, from the Little Match Girl
  Passion Theatre of Voices, Paul Hillier, director
  
• Michael Praetorius
  Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
  VocalEssence, Philip Brunelle, director
  Plymouth Congregational Church, Minneapolis
  
• Richard Dirksen
  Christ, Mighty Savior
  The St. Olaf College Choirs and Orchestra, John Ferguson, conductor
  
• Bruce Adolphe
  Santa and Isolde
  The Metropolitan Opera Brass
  
• Orlande di Lassus
  Hodie Apparuit
  In Mulieribus, Anna Song, director
  St. Philip Neri Catholic Church, Portland, Oregon
  
• Traditional Welsh
  Suo-Gan (Sleep my Baby)
  The Northland Youth Choir, Melissa Downes, director
  Davis Concert Hall, Fairbanks, Alaska
  
• Traditional English (Arranged by Elizabeth Poston)
  The Boar's Head Carol
  Chanticleer
  Memorial Church, Stanford, California
  
• Ralph Vaughan Williams
  Fantasia on Greensleeves
  The New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, Jacques Lacombe, conductor
  New Jersey Performing Arts Center, Newark, New Jersey
  

hour 2

• Franz Biebl
  Ave Maria
  Cantus
  
• Traditional French
  He is Born, the Divine Christ Child
  The Salt Lake Children's Chorus, Ralph B. Woodward, director
  Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, Utah
  
• Marc Antoine Charpentier
  Excerpts from In Nativitatem D.N.J.C. Canticum, H. 414
  Les Arts Florissants, William Christie, director
  
• Francois Couperin
  Second movement from Pieces de Clavecin, Book 4: 27th Ordre in B Minor
  Juho Pohjonen, piano
  Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• Traditional
  Veni, Veni Emmanuel
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Paul Manz
  E'en So, Lord Jesus
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Sergei Rachmaninoff
  Priidite, Poklonimsya
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Traditional French (Arranged by Michael McGlynn)
  Noel Nouvelet
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Michael Praetorius
  Psallite
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Brian Schmidt
  O Magnum Mysterium
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Traditional (Arranged by Gary Ruschman and Chris Foss)
  Pat a Drummer
  Cantus
  First Lutheran Church, Columbia Heights, Minnesota
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Sheep May Safely Graze
  Joshua Smith, flute, Cynthia Phelps, viola
  Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  
• Traditional Scottish/Irish
  Selected Christmas Carols
  David Greenberg, violin, Ken Kolodner, hammer dulcimer, the Chris Norman Ensemble
  Beaches Fine Arts Series, Jacksonville Beach, Florida