Today's Playlist

hour 1

• Traditional Seattle Early Music Guild, Seattle
  Vieni, Vieni (Come, Come)
  The Toronto Consort, David Fallis, director
  
• Traditional English (arranged by Joseph Jennings)
  O Come All Ye Faithful
  Chanticleer
  Stanford Memorial Chapel, Stanford, California
  
• Traditional Croatian (arranged by Igor Kuljeric)
  Croatian Christmas Carols
  Soloists, the Croatian Radio and Television Chorus and Symphony Orchestra, Tonci Bilic, conductor
  Basilica of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, Zagreb, Croatia
  
• Traditional Italian
  Ninna, Nanna Sopra la Romanesca
  L'Arpeggiata
  Carnegie Hall: New York City
  
• Anonymous
  Gaudeat Ecclesia
  The Rondellus Early Music Ensemble, Robert Staak, director
  St. Nicholas Church, Tallinn, Estonia
  
• Tommie Connor
  I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus
  The Tokyo FM Boys' Choir, Etsuyo Tachikawa, director
  Tokyo FM Hall, Tokyo, Japan
  
• Johann Strauss, Jr.
  Unter Donner und Blitz (the Thunder and Lightning Polka), Op. 324
  The Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Manfred Honeck, conductor
  Fernand Lindsay Amphitheatre, Joliette, Quebec
  
• Leroy Anderson
  Sleigh Ride
  The Dallas Wind Symphony, Jerry Junkin, conductor
  Meyerson Symphony Center, Dallas
  
• Perfchat with Eva Beneke
  
• Johann Sebastian Bach
  Siciliana from Solo Violin Sonata No. 1 in G Minor, BWV 1001
  Eva Beneke, guitar
  Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  
• Traditional (arranged by Eva Beneke)
  Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen (Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming)
  Eva Beneke, guitar
  Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio, St. Paul
  
• Franz Xaver Gruber
  Silent Night
  Eva Beneke and Scott Tennant, guitars
  
• Silesian Folk Tune (arranged by F. Melius Christiansen)
  Beautiful Savior
  The St. Olaf Combined Choirs, Anton Armstrong, director
  St. Olaf Christmas Festival, Northfield, Minnesota
  

hour 2

• Traditional (arranged by Stephen Cleobury)
  Once in Royal David's City
  George Wimpeny, singer, King's College Choir, Stephen Cleobury, director
  A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols, Cambridge, England
  
• Eric Whitacre
  Lux Aurumque
  The Seattle Marimba Quartet
  Classical KING FM, Seattle
  
• Irish Reel (arranged by Sylvain Bergeron and Jeannette Sorrell)
  Christmas Eve
  Apollo's Fire, Ensemble La Nef, Jeannette Sorrell, conductor and harpsichord
  St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Cleveland Heights, Ohio
  
• Traditional (arranged by Roger Harvey)
  Sing Lullaby
  Burning River Brass
  Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
  
• Traditional Welsh
  Ar hyd y nos (All Through the Night)
  Bryn Terfel, bass-baritone, Llyr Williams, piano
  Verbier Festival, Verbier, Switzerland
  
• English Carol
  Lullay my Child - This Ender Nithgt
  Ruth Cunningham, soprano
  Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
  
• Traditional Scottish
  Christ Child Lullaby
  Ensemble Galilei
  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
  
• Wilhelm Stenhammar
  Interlude from Sangen (the Song)
  The Baltic Youth Philharmonic, Kristjan Jarvi, conductor
  Baltic Sea Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• Francois Couperin
  Mysterious Barricades, from Pieces de Clavecin, Sixieme Ordre in B-flat
  Angela Hewitt, piano
  Spivey Hall, Morrow, Georgia
  
• Franz Xaver Gruber
  Silent Night
  The Middle East Peace Orchestra, Danish Radio Vocal Ensemble, Henrik Goldschmidt, conductor
  Christianskirken, Copenhagen, Denmark
  
• Matthew Peterson
  Dawn: Redeeming, Radiant
  The St. Olaf Orchestra, Steven Amundson, conductor
  St. Olaf Christmas Festival, Northfield, Minnesota
  
• Franz Xaver Gruber
  Silent Night
  The Pro Arte Singers, Jacqui Kerrod, harp, Eric Trudel, organ, Arthur Sjogren, director
  First Presbyterian Church, New Canaan, Connecticut