10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Including new releases this hour
Harold Darke: "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
King's College Cambridge KGS-0036

Judith Weir: "O mercy divine"
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
King's College Cambridge KGS-0036

William Mathias: "Sir Christèmas"
Choir of King's College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury
King's College Cambridge KGS-0036

Aaron Copland: "Our Town"
Suite
St Louis Sym/Leonard Slatkin
RCA 61699-2

Edward Elgar: Four Dances
Athena Ensemble
Chandos CHAN-6554

Daniel-François Auber: "Fra Diavolo"
Overture
St Martin's Academy/Neville Marriner
Philips 411450-2

César Franck: "Panis Angelicus"
Hallé Orch and Cho/Maurice Handford
EMI/Ang CDC5-67014-2 (2)

Giovanni Battista Fontana: Sonata #5
Romanesca
Harmonia Mundi HMU-907211

Elizabeth DiSavino: "A Suite of English Carols"
Solid Brass
Dorian DOR-90008

Vince Guaraldi: "A Charlie Brown Christmas"
"Christmas Time Is Here"
PALS Children's Cho, Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart
RCA 63252-2

George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
I. "Allegro"
Earl Wild, p; Boston Pops/Arthur Fiedler
RCA 68792-2

John Adams: "China Gates"
Orli Shaham, p
Canary Classics CC-11

Peter Warlock: Serenade for Strings
Ulster Orch/Vernon Handley
Chandos CHAN-8808

Peter Warlock: "Bethlehem Down"
The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
Coro COR-16146

Niccolo Paganini: "Sonata Concertata" in A
Augustin Hadelich, v; Pablo Sainz Villegas, g
Avie AV-2280

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4:00 - 7:00 pm
Including a newscast at 4:00 and "The Unrush Hour" between 5:00 and 6:00
Nicolo Paganini: "Centone di Sonate," Op 64
#2 in D
Gil Shaham, v; Göran Söllscher, g
DG 437837-2

Bohuslav Martinu: Merry Christmas 1941
St Paul Chamber Orch/Christopher Hogwood
London 433660-2

Franz Joseph Haydn: "Andante con variazioni" in f, H XXVII:6
Mikhail Pletnev, p
Virgin 45254-2

Hugo Friedhofer: The Bishop's Wife
Suite
Studio ORchestra/Hugo Friedhofer
Brigham Young University Film Music Archives FMA-HF109

Alexander Borodin: "Prince Igor"
Polovtsian Dances
Royal Philharmonic Orch, London Phil Cho/Thomas Beecham
BBC 4084-2

Manuel de Falla: "El Amor Brujo" (1915)
Los Angeles Guitar Quartet
GHA 126.001

Felix Mendelssohn: "A Midsummer Night's Dream," Op. 61
Age of Enlightenment Orch/Sir Charles Mackerras
Virgin Classics 90725-2

Gioachino Rossini: Wind Quartet No. 4 in F
Philadelphia Woodwind Quintet
Boston Records BR-1063-CD

Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony No. 63 in C, "La Roxelane"
Philharmonia Hungarica/Antal Dorati
London 4781221 (33)

Richard Strauss: "Romanze" in F
Raphael Wallfisch, vc; Scottish National Orch/Neeme Järvi
Chandos CHAN-8631

Harold Darke: "In the Bleak Midwinter"
Westminster Cathedral Cho/James O'Donnell
Hyperion CDA-66668

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7:00 pm
"Jewel of the Holiday Season" profiles the New York String Orchestra concerts that young players present every december in Carnegie Hall.
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8:00 pm
Whole Notes
Music of Healing and Peace
This response to violence in our world, especially gun violence in our cities, will include performances andcommentary from cellist Yo-Yo Ma, a look at the Notes for Peace song-writing project, and excerpts from two recentoperas on the theme of violence, "Blue" and "Future Perfect."
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9:00 - 11:00 pm
"NYP Jukebox" features a wide variety of sacred and secular music to honor the winter solstice and year-end holidays. There'll be music byJohann Strauss, Mozart, Leroy Anderson, Grieg, Vivaldi, Vaughan Williams, Prokofiev, Tchaikovsky, Offenbach, and Humperdinck, plusPoulenc's "Gloria." Conductors: Mehta, Bernstein, Alan Gilbert, Skitch Henderson, Maazel, Kostelanetz, Sir Andrew Davis.
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