BBC Radio 3 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced Third Programme.

BBC Radio 3

Radio 3

Christmas around Europe

Music

A day of concerts from around Europe to celebrate Christmas.

Christmas Around Europe: Christmas Around Europe

Christmas around Europe: Christmas Around Europe (2015): Episode 3

Music: Classical

christmas-around-europe_ep3_201215_jenny-slater.jpg

Episode 3

Christmas Around Europe (2015)

BBC Radio 3 - Christmas around Europe, Christmas Around Europe (2015), Episode 3

Ian Skelly presents concerts given in Stockholm and Dresden.

Ian Skelly presents the third part of Radio 3's annual day of Christmas music from around Europe. Including concerts given in Stockholm and Dresden.

BBC Radio 3 links up with radio stations around Europe for a festive day of Christmas music. 

Presented by Ian Skelly 


7.45pm From the Scala Theatre, Stockholm

Jul i Folkton, a band featuring some of Sweden's leading folk musicians, offer us 'a concert that smells of straw and spruce'

Ale Möller, Lena Willemark, Lisa Rydberg, Esbjörn Hazelius, Roger Tallroth, Olle Linder



8.15 pm From the Frauenkirche, Dresden

Franz Biebl (1906-2001): Ave Maria (Angelus Domini) 

John Rutter (born 1945): Born in a Stable so Bare 

Joseph Gabriel Rheinberger (1839-1901) Gloria, from 'Mass in A, op. 126

Trad: God rest you merry gentlemen 

Brahms: Es ist das Heil uns kommen her, op. 29 no 1 

Gustaf Nordqvist (1886-1949: Jul, Jul, stralande Jul, (Swedish Christmas Carol)

Poulenc: Quatre Motets pour le temps de Noël 

Gustav Holst: In the Bleak Midwinter

Morten Lauridsen (born 1943): O magnum mysterium 

Michael Praetorius: Det är en ros utsprungen 


MDR Leipzig Childrens' Chorus
Directed by Ullrich Kaiser

MDR Leipzig Radio Chorus
Directed by Philipp Ahmann

(Christmas Around Europe concludes at 11 pm).

Christmas around Europe: Christmas Around Europe (2015)

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Radio 3's annual day of Christmas music from around Europe

Radio 3's annual day of Christmas music from around Europe, with a series of live and specially recorded concerts

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Christmas around Europe

Christmas Around Europe (2015)

Episode 3

Genres

Brand

Series

BBC Radio 3

About BBC Radio 3