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25/12/2008

Rob Cowan and Sara Mohr-Pietsch present a special Christmas edition. Including Haydn's Symphony No 1 and Handel's Hallelujah Chorus, plus Bach Dances and a specially recorded carol.

The complete Breakfast playlist is posted on this site after the programme has been broadcast.

07:03
HANDEL
Hallelujah: Messiah
Dunedin Consort & Players
John Butt (director)
LINN CKD 285 CD2 Tr 16

07:07
PAGANINI
Sonatine for violin and guitar in A major
Leonid Kogan (violin)
Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoi (guitar)
MEL CD 10 01292 Tr 7

07:13
PRAETORIUS
Es ist ein Ros entsprungen
The Trapp Family Singers
DG 00289 474 5552 Tr 1

07:15
GRIEG
Norwegian Dance op.35 no.1
Halle Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
EMI 586513 2 CD1 Tr 2

07:22
TRAD. arr. BACH
O Jesulein süss
Tessa Bonner (soprano)
Jakob Lindberg (lute)
EMI CDC 7 49809 2 Tr 10

07:24
Fanny MENDELSSOHN-HENSEL
Dezember (Das Jahr)
Lauma Skride
SONY 88697030162 T12

07:31
SKEMPTON
Rejoice, rejoice
Ö÷²¥´óÐã Singers
David Hill (director)
Ö÷²¥´óÐã Recording

07:33
CORELLI
Concerto Grosso, Op.6 No.8 ‘Fatto per la notte di natale’
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)
L’OISEUA-LYRE 410 179-2 T1-4

07:47
BACH/GRAINGER
Blithe Bells
Bengt Forsberg (piano)
DG 477 7971 Tr 9

07:52
MONTEVERDI
Ohime ch’io cado
Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor
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Christina Pluhar, director
VIRGIN 5099923614024 Tr 2

07:56
STAN KENTON
Good King Wenceslas
Stan Kenton
CAPITOL 7243 5 92601 2 Tr 4

08:03
BACH
‘Jauchzet, frohlocket auf, preiset die Tage’ (Christmas Oratorio, BWV.248)
Combattimento Consort Amsterdam
Cappella Amsterdam
Jan Willem de Vriend (director)
CHALLENGE CC 76607 CD1 Tr 1

08:11
Carl Michael ZIEHRER
Flirt, Galopp op.472
C.M.Ziehrer Orchester
Hans Schadenbauer (conductor)
ZIEHRER 33521-5 PR91155 Tr 15

08:14
MOHR/GRUBER
Stille Nacht
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano)
Ambrosian Singers
Julian Bream (guitar)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
EMI CDM 7 63574 2 Tr 1

08:18
DVORAK
Carnival Overture op.92
Philadelphia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)
WLA-WS-66 Tr 3

08:31
JOHN FOSTER
While shepherds watched their flocks by night
Psalmody
The Parley of Instruments
Peter Holman (director)
HELIOS CDH 55325 T15

08:36
STRAUSS
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Edita Gruberova (soprano)
Friedrich Haider (piano)
TELDEC 3984-26795-2 Tr 18

08:39
HAYDN
Symphony no.1 in D major
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
Hugh Wolff (conductor)
WARNER 2564 69452-0T5-7

08:51
MORTEN LAURIDSEN
O Magnum Mysterium
Polyphony
Stephen Layton (director)
HYPERION NOEL 2 Tr 13

08:53
SCHUBERT
Moment musical in F minor D.780 no.3
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)
DG 00289 477 7558 Tr 21

09:01
BACH
Bach Well Tempered Clavier Book II
A flat major fugue BWV 886
arranged for string quartet by Rodolfo RichtER
Played by the Bach Players
Tr 21

09:04
PETER CORNELIUS
Christmas Carols op.8: Drei Könige & Simeon
Hermann Prey (baritone)
Leonard Hokanson (piano)
DG 477 7969 Tr 3 & 4

09:07
Christmas Carols op.8: Christus der Kinderfreund & Christkind
Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo)
Helmut Deutsch (piano)
SONY 88697199412 Tr 14-15

09:17
LEROY ANDERSON
A Christmas Festival
London Pops Orchestra
Frederick Fennell (conductor)
MERCURY 434 376-2 Tr 8

09:19
HANDEL
Comfort ye, my people: Messiah
Aksel Schiøtz (tenor)
Orchestra directed by Mogens Wöldike
[recorded March 1940]
ROMOPHONE 87001-2 Tr 1

09:23
SCHUBERT
Impromptu no.4 in A flat, op.90
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 422 237-2 Tr 4

09:31
WEILL
Tchaikowsky (excerpt): Lady in the Dark
Adolph Green (Ringmaster) & Chorus
conducted by Lehman Engel
SONY MHK 62856 Tr 11

09:33
PROKOFIEV
Cinderella’s Waltz – Midnight (Cinderella)
Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
EVEREST EVC 9023 Tr 7

09:37
PURCELL
Abdelazer: Overture – Rondeau
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (director)
L’OISEAU-LYRE 444 620-2 Tr 12

09:42
McHUGH-FIELDS
On the sunny side of the street
Ella Fitzgerald (vocals)
Count Basie and his Orchestra
VERVE 539 059-2 Tr 12

09:46
HUMMEL
Menuetto e scherzo (Septet in D minor, Op.74)
The Melos Ensemble of London
DECCA 476 2447 Tr 2

09:50

ROBERT FARNON
Jumping Bean
RPO
Barry Wordsworth (conductor)
WARNER 2564 62020-2 Tr 13

09:54
MENDELSSOHN arr. Willcocks
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
Kings College Choir, Cambridge
Stephen Cleobury (director)
EMI – white label CD1 Tr 5

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