EBU Christmas Around Europe

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Christmas around Europe: Part 1

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The annual celebration of Christmas music from all around Europe.

The annual celebration of Christmas from all around Europe, with music from Hanover, Amsterdam, Stockholm and Stuttgart. Presented by Sarah Walker.

A day-long festival of Christmas music and singing from across Europe and Canada in the European Broadcasting Union’s annual Christmas music day. Choirs and ensembles come together to celebrate the wonder of Christmas. First we travel to Hanover with the NDR Radio Philharmonic; then to Amsterdam with the choir of St John’s College, Cambridge, and then from Stockholm we hear Musica Temprana  perform music from the Iberian Peninsula, and from Stuttgart, a Christmas concert given by the SWR Vocal Ensemble.

Sarah Walker (presenter)

09.00: Hanover - Christmas music by Bach and his contemporaries with the NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, from Hannover

Bach: Opening Chorus from the cantata 'Nun komm' der Heiden Heiland, BWV 61'
Jesus bleibet meine Freude, from the cantata 'Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147'
Choral excerpts from 'Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248'
Manfredini: Concerto grosso in C ('Con una Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale')
Vivaldi: Concerto for Two Cellos in G minor, RV 531
Lute Concerto in D, RV 93
NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra
Michael Hofstetter, conductor



10.00: Amsterdam:  The Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge, with a feast of festive music

Trad, arr. Vaughan Williams: This is the Truth Sent from Above
Tamsin Jones: Noel: Verbum caro factum est
Anon, arr Philip ledger: Sussex Carol
Anon: There is no rose
Howells: A Spotless Rose
	Sing Lullaby
	Here is the little door
Bach:  In dulci jubilo, BWV 729
Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est
Byrd: O admirabile commercium
Victoria: O magnum mysterium
Becky McGlade: In the bleak midwinter
Cornelius: The three kings
Felix Mendelssohn: When Jesus our Lord, from 'Christus, op. 97, oratorio'
Adam: O Holy Night
Cantique de Noël/Minuit, chrétiens
Felix Mendelssohn: Hark! The herald angels sing
	
Choir of St. John's College, Cambridge
Christopher Gray, conductor



11.00: Stockholm: Musica Temprana  perform music from Iberian Peninsula 




12.00: Stuttgart – a Christmas concert given by the SWR Vocal Ensemble

Pärt: Excerpts from 'Berlin Mass' – Kyrie, Gloria
Pärt: Magnificat
Pärt: Excerpts from 'Berlin Mass' – Credo, Sanctus, Agnus Dei	 
Evelin Seppar:  Seesama meri
Ravel, arr. Clytus Gottwald: La vallée des cloches, from 'Miroirs'
Gundega Smite: Light Seeking Light
Adrianna Kubica-Cypek: L'hiver
Pēteris Vasks: Plainscapes
Jan Sandström: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

SWR Vocal Ensemble, Stuttgart
Krista Audere, conductor

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