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Christmas Collection

Michael Berkeley shares festive music choices from Private Passions over the years, with guests including Chris Addison, Nina Stibbe, Brian Moore and Shirley Collins.

Michael Berkeley shares festive music choices from Private Passions over the years. We’ll hear how Handel can evoke memories of roast potatoes in the oven on Christmas day; we’ll spend time by the fire in a remote Irish castle, take a seasonal trip to the ballet, and share heart-warming singing from a variety of traditions. His guests include Chris Addison, Nina Stibbe, Brian Moore, David Mitchell, Shirley Collins and Sue Black.

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Music Played

  • Gustaf Nordqvist

    Jul, jul, strålande jul

    Choir: Adolf Fredriks Ungdomskör.
    • Lucia - En klassisk högtid.
    • Cupol.
    • 6.

  • George Frideric Handel

    For unto us a child is born (Messiah)

    Choir: The English Concert Choir. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: John Nelson.
    • Handel: Messiah, HWV 56.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 12.

  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • EMI.

  • Claude Debussy

    The Snow is Dancing (Children's Corner)

    Performer: Alain Planès.
    • Debussy: Children's Corner: Alain Planes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.

  • Victor Hely-Hutchinson

    A Carol Symphony

    Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gavin Sutherland.
    • A Carol Symphony and other Christmas Orchestral Favourites.
    • Naxos.
    • 6-9.

  • Jake Thackray

    Remember Bethlehem

    Singer: Jake Thackray.
    • Jake In A Box (The EMI Recordings 1967-1976).
    • Parlophone UK.
    • 12.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Sussex Mummers' Christmas Carol

    Performer: Kenneth Sillito. Performer: Hamish Milne.
    • The Grainger Edition, Vol .13 - Works for Chamber Ensembles Part 1.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 16.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker (Overture)

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, TH 14 (Live at Walt Disney Concert Hall, Lo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon (DG).
    • 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Corpus Christi Carol

    Composer: Jeff Buckley. Performer: Jeff Buckley.
    • Grace.
    • Sony Music Entertainment UK Ltd.
    • 8.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Quia ergo femina mortem instruxit

    Ensemble: Ensemble for Medieval Music.
    • Canticles of Ecstasy.
    • deutsche harmonia mundi.
    • 003.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Dried Figs from Sins of Old Age Book 4 Piano Pieces

    Performer: Marco Sollini.
    • Rossini Complete Piano Edition Vol 2.
    • Chandos.
    • 1.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Ca' the Yowes

    Choir: Laudibus.
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Cappella Choral Works.
    • Delphian Records.
    • 14.

  • Michael Praetorius

    In dulci jubilo (Christmas Mass)

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort. Singer: Susan Hemington Jones. Singer: Tessa Bonner. Singer: Mark le Brocq. Choir: Boy's Choir of Roskilde Cathedral. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Praetorius, M: Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning.
    • ARCHIV.
    • 23.

  • Michael Berkeley

    Released by Love

    Choir: Â鶹Éç Singers. Conductor: Owain Park.
    • Collaborations.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 24.

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