This week we bring you a selection of winter-themed highlights from the New York Philharmonic’s storied discography. You will hear sleigh bells from Mozart, Mahler, and Leroy Anderson, concertmaster Frank Huang leading Winter from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, and selections from Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker.
Winter Holiday Playlist
Playlist
Johann Strauss II: Die Fledermaus Overture
Zubin Mehta, conductor
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dance in C, Sleigh Ride
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Felix Bernard: “Winter Wonderland”
Skitch Henderson, conductor
John Blackburn & Karl Suessdorf: “Moonlight in Vermont”
Skitch Henderson, conductor
Leroy Anderson: “Sleigh Ride”
Skitch Henderson, conductor
Edvard Grieg (orch. A. Seidl and E. Grieg): Lyric Suite: March of the Dwarfs
Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons
Frank Huang, leader and violin
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves
Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Francis Poulenc: Gloria in G
Judith Blegen, soprano; Westminster Choir; Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé Suite, Troika
Skitch Henderson, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: Winter Bonfire – Children’s Suite, Op. 122
No. 2, Winter Holiday
No. 4, Around the Bonfire
No. 8, Home Again
Skitch Henderson, conductor
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Selections from The Nutcracker
Alan Gilbert, conductor
Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major, I. Bedächtig. Nicht eilen
Lorin Maazel, conductor
Jacques Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes from Le Voyage dans la lune
Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Engelbert Humperdinck: Children’s Prayer from Hänsel und Gretel Bramwell Tovey, conductor