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Andrew McGregor guides us through our annual day of Christmas music from around Europe. Part 1 begins live in Finland. The YLE Youth Choir of 2016, Vox Aurea Youth Choir, perform traditional and contemporary Finnish Christmas music in Kallio Church, Helsinki. Then to a concert of European Christmas organ music performed by Cathedral Cantor Albrecht Koch on the great Silbermann organ of Freiburg Cathedral in Saxony.

1pm - LIVE from Kallio Church, Helsinki
Sibelius: Bell Tune of Kallio Church, for bells
Anon arr Kari Ala-Pöllänen: O scholares, voce pares - Gaudete, from 'Piae Cantiones'
Anon: Mariam Matrem, from Llibre Vermell de Montserrat (14th century)
Trad arr Pekka Kostiainen: Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (16th century)
Pekka Kostiainen: Regina angelorum
Eric Tuan: Nunc dimittis
Trad arr Sanna Salminen: Ding Dong Merrily on High (16th century)
Trad: À Minuit fut fait un réveil (17th century)
Sanna Salminen: Mummolan tuvan taulu
Olli Moilanen: La Jornada
Trad arr Kari Ala-Pöllänen: Mary had a Baby
Trad South Africa: Singaba hamba yothina (A Child Is Born to Us)
Trad arr Sanna Salminen: Quanno nascette ninno - Kun syntyi lapsonen
Frode Fjellheim: Eatnemen vuelie
Vox Aurea Youth Choir
Sanna Salminen (conductor)

2pm - From Freiburg Cathedral in Saxony
Bach: Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV.659
Buxtehude: Magnificat noni toni, BuxWV.203
Weckmann: Gelobet seist du, Jesu Christ
Petrus de Drusina: Resonet in laudibus
Murschhauser: Partite sopa 'Lasst uns das Kindlein wiegen'
Bach: Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV.531
Bach: In dulci jublio (chorale arrangement)
Dandrieu: 3 Pieces
Gade: Wie schön leucht uns der Morgenstern
Rheinberger: Organ Sonata No.4 in G, Op.88
Albrecht Koch (organ).