Christmas around Europe 2020 (320kbps .mp3)



BBC Radio 3’s Christmas Day broadcasting. Here I have converted the .m4a to .mp3 but as the broadcasts are so long I have not broken them down into the individual items.





01. Iceland, Denmark and Canada



A day-long festival of Christmas and singing from across Europe and Canada in the European Broadcasting Union’s annual Christmas music day. In a year where singing in choirs has largely been curtailed due to the global pandemic, choirs and orchestras come together in socially distant performances of music that celebrates the joy of singing and the wonder of Christmas.



Presented by Hannah French.



9am

From Iceland, an Italian Baroque Christmas Concert with the Reykjavik Chamber Orchestra performing music by Pergolesi, Locatelli, Vivaldi and Veracini.



Pergolesi: Violin Concerto in B flat major

Locatelli: Concerti XI a quattro in C minor

Vivaldi: Cello concerto in G major RV 415

Veracini: Overture nr. 6 in Bb major



Laufey Jensdóttir, violin

Steiney Sigurðardóttir, cello

Reykjavík Chamber Orchestra



10am

"Motets in Advent -William Byrd, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck, Thomas Tallis & Robert White" - a Christmas concert with The Theatre of Voices and Paul Hillier, from Copenhagen. The program is a selection of the finest vocal and organ music of the Renaissance: praise, the proclamation, the mystery, the birth, the cradle of the child of Christ, and the light of God over man.



William Byrd: Laudibus in sanctis, from 'Cantiones Sacrae' (1589)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Ons ist geboren een kindekijn

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Ecce virgo concipiet

Thomas Tallis: Clarifica me pater (II, I)

William Byrd: O magnum mysterium; Beata virgo; Ave Maria

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est

William Byrd: A Voluntarie for my Ladye Nevell

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (1562-1621) - In illo tempore

William Byrd: Lullaby, my sweet little baby; A Grounde, BK43

Robert White: Christe qui lux es et dies (IV, à 5)

Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Toccata, primi toni; Gaudete omnes



Yngvild Ruud, organ

Theatre of Voices

Paul Hillier, conductor



11am

A Christmas Concert with the Early Music ensemble La Nef with sopranos Meredith Hall and Donna Kanerahtenha:wi Jacobs (from the First Nations Mohawk Community), from Montreal. A concert featuring Baroque and traditional Christmas music from Montreal’s five founding communities.



Traditional (First Nations Mohawk): Ok Skennen Ko Wa

Anonymous: Eesus ahatonnyah

Traditional (France): Nous voici dans la ville

Pierre Dandrieu: Or, nous dites, Marie

Traditional (Ireland): What Child is This? - My Lagan Love

Traditional (Isle of Man): Usheg Veg Ruy (Little Red Bird)

John Playford: The Cold Suite: On the Cold Ground; Drive the Cold Winter Away; Cold and Raw; My Lodging is on the Cold Ground

Traditional (Wales): Welsh Carol

Traditional (France): Entre le bœuf et l’âne gris

Louis-Claude Daquin: Suite de Noëls français

Traditional (Scotland): A Cogie of Ale and a Pickle Ait Meal

Traditional (Scotland): Scottish Reel

Tony O'Connell: Christmas in Kinsale (jig)

Tommy Coen: Christmas Eve Reel

Traditional (England): Gloucestershire Wassail

Traditional: Please to See the King

Traditional (Ireland): The Wren Song



Meredith Hall, soprano

Donna Kanerahtenha:wi Jacobs, soprano

La Nef

Sylvain Bergeron, artisitc director, archlute, Baroque guitar

Alex Kehler, violin (trad.), nyckelharpa

Robin Grenon, harps

Grégoire Jeay, recorders, traverso flute

Marie-Laurence Primeau, viola da gamba

Andrew Wells-Oberegger, percussion



02. Finland and Spain



A day-long festival of Christmas and singing from across Europe and Canada in the European Broadcasting Union’s annual Christmas music day. In a year where singing in choirs has largely been curtailed due to the global pandemic, choirs and orchestras come together in socially distant performances of music that celebrates the joy of singing and the wonder of Christmas.



Presented by Hannah French.



1pm

Live Christmas Concert with Maria Ylipää and Friends, from Helsinki. Maria Ylipää and Friends offer a stylistically versatile concert cocktail of Christmas music under the title "Star of Wonder". The concert consists of old and new music from Finland and abroad.



Jean Sibelius: Bell Tune of Kallio Church

Terre Roche: Star of Wonder

Alfred S. Burt: Some Children See Him

Joni Mitchell: River

Traditional (Sweden): Mitt hjärta vandrar alltid till platsen du blev född

Jean Sibelius: En etsi valtaa loistoa

Heino Kaski: Mökit nukkuu lumiset

Jukka Leppilampi: Aasi ja timpurin muija

Leonard Cohen: Hallelujah

Franz Xaver Gruber: Silent Night, Holy Night



Maria Ylipää, vocals

Marzi Nyman, guitar

Niko Kumpuvaara, accordion

Ville Herrala, double bass



2pm

Christmas Concert: The World of Children, with Veus - Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió, from Barcelona, together with soprano María Hinojosa and the Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band, under the baton of José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana. Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió is winner, among other prizes, of the Silver Rose Bowl in the 2013 LTPS competition. Recorded at the Pau Casals Hall, L' Auditori, Barcelona.



Stephen Melillo: David

Nigel Hess: To the Stars!

Bert Apperpont: Celtic Child

Albert Guinovart: Suite Nadalenca



María Hinojosa, soprano

Veus - Cor Infantil Amics de la Unió

Josep Vila i Jover, chorus director

Barcelona Symphonic Wind Band

José Rafael Pascual-Vilaplana, conductor



03. Budapest, Ljubljana, Stockholm, Cologne, Arnstadt and Munich

Christmas around Europe



Andrew McGregor continues the day-long festival of Christmas and singing from across Europe and Canada in the European Broadcasting Union’s annual Christmas music day. In a year where singing in choirs has largely been curtailed due to the global pandemic, choirs and orchestras come together in socially distant performances of music that celebrates the joy of singing and the wonder of Christmas.



4pm

An Advent concert given by Honvéd Férfikar (Honvéd Men's Chorus) from Budapest.



JS Bach: Jesu, joy of man's desiring, from 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147'

Jacobus Gallus: Natus est nobis

Handel: Thanks be to Thee, O Lord

Rachmaninov: We Praise Thee, O Mother of God

Rejoice, o Virgin (Ave Maria) from 'Vespers (All-Night Vigil), op. 37

Schubert: Psalm 23, D. 796

Franck: Panis Angelicus

Mihály Mosony: Ave Maria

Ambrož Čopi: Totus tuus

Kodaly: Evening Song

Jan Nieland: Magnificat

Saint-Saëns: Tollite hostias, from 'Oratorio de Noël, op. 12'

Randol Alan Bass: Gloria



Tamás Egresi, baritone

András Decsi, tenor

András Stampay-Komesz, baritone

László Adrián Nagy, piano

Honvéd Men's Chorus

Richárd Riederauer, conductor



5pm

An archive Christmas concert from 21 December 2014 from Ljubljana, featuring the Slovenian Philharmonic Chorus directed by Martina Batič

Music will include:



Valentin Vasilyovych Silvestrov: Liturgical Chants

César Cui: Magnificat

Georgy Vasilevich Sviridov: Having beheld a mysterious Nativity

Traditional (Russia): Shepherds of Bethlehem

Pavel Chesnokov: All of Creation Rejoices in Thee, op. 15/11

Franz Xaver Gruber: Silent Night, Holy Night



Monika Fele, soprano

Mojca Bitenc, soprano

Edita Garčević Koželj, alto

Gašper Banovec, tenor

Martin Logar, tenor

Tomaž Koder, baritone

Slovenian Philharmonic Chorus

Martina Batič, conductor



6pm

A Jazz Christmas Concert with international jazz trombonist, Nils Landgren and Friends, from Stockholm.



Mel Tormé: The Christmas Song

Ron Sexsmith: Maybe This Christmas

Mervyn Edwin Warren: Who Would Imagine a King

Gary Hines: Love is Born

Ron Miller: Someday at Christmas

Frank Loesser: Baby, It's Cold Outside

Trad: Ding Dong! Merrily on High

Roxanne Seeman: Everyday is Christmas

Traditional (Sweded): Prepare the way for the Lord

John Frederick Coots: Santa Claus is Comin' to Town

Gustaf Lazarus Nordqvist: Yule, yule, radiant yule

Handel: Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion, aria from Messiah, HWV 56



7pm

Christmas Concert with Rheinische Kantorei and Das Kleine Konzert, from Cologne



Telemann: Siehe! Ich verkündige euch grosse Freude, TVWV 1:1333

Tönet die Freude, belebte Trompeten, TVWV 1:1410

Darzu ist erschienen die Liebe Gottes, TVWV 1:166



Veronika Winter, soprano

Anne Bierwirth, contralto

Georg Poplutz, tenor

Matthias Vieweg, baritone

Das Kleine Konzert

Rheinische Kantorei

Hermann Max, conductor



8pm – 9.30pm

The vocal group Ensemble Polyharmonique and Thüringer Bach Collegium perform parts of J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Taking place in the church in Arnstadt where J.S. Bach held his first post as organist (1703-1707), this concert will feature the first three cantatas of Bach's Christmas Oratorio, given by two ensembles that specialise in historically informed performances.



J.S. Bach: Cantatas I-III, from 'Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248

Ensemble Polyharmonique

Thüringer Bach Collegium



9.30 – 11pm



Christmas Concert with Bavarian Radio Chorus, Munich Radio Orchestra and Howard Arman, from Munich



Johannes Eccard: Übers Gebirg Maria geht

Praetorius: Angelus ad pastores ait

Traditional (Germany): Ach bittrer Winter

Schlaf wohl, du Himmelsknabe du

Scheidt: O Jesulein süss

JS Bach: Ich steh´ an Deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469

Arvo Pärt: ...which was the son of...

Magnificat

Maxwell Davies : Four carols From O magnum mysterium:

O magnum mysterium

Haylle comly and clene

Alleluia, pro Virgine Maria

The Fader of Heven

Traditional (England) - Coventry Carol

William Ballet: Lute-book lullaby

Warlock: Bethlehem Down

Traditional (Germany):

Resonet in laudibus

Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf

Lasst uns froh und munter sein

Traditional (Spiritual): Ain't That A-Rockin'

Mary Had a Baby

Traditional (Germany) : O Tannenbaum

Traditional (England): Sussex Carol

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland

Irving Berlin: White Christmas



Bavarian Radio Chorus

Munich Radio Orchestra

Howard Arman, conductor





First broadcast:  20 December 2020



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