00:00 FILM AT FIVE with Bill O’Connell: Christmas Movies, Part 2
Cyril Mockridge: Miracle on 34th Street: Suite (1947)—Royal Philharmonic/David Newman (Telarc 88801) 11:00
Richard Addinsell: A Christmas Carol: Suite (1951)—Royal Philharmonic/David Newman (Telarc 88801) 14:07
John Williams: Home Alone 2: Merry Christmas (1992)—Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus/Robert Porco (MAA 2014) 2:42
Howard Blake: The Snowman: Walking in the Air (1982)—Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus/Robert Porco (MAA 2014) 3:37
Hugh Martin (arr Barlow Bradford): Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (1944)—Cleveland Orchestra & Chorus/Robert Porco (MAA 2014) 4:29
Craig Armstrong (arr Chris Marshall): Love Actually: Glasgow Love Theme (2003)—Claire Jones, harp; London Mozart Players/Stuart Morley (Silva 6051) 3:17
Maurice Jarre: Prancer: Theme (1989)—Royal Philharmonic/Maurice Jarre (Milan 35607) 6:16
John Williams: Home Alone: Somewhere in My Memory (1990)—Chorus, Orchestra/Williams (Sony 51333) 4:54
Ray Evans/Jay Livingston (arr Luther Henderson): Silver Bells (1951)—Canadian Brass (CBS 39740) 2:48
01:00 CHICAGO SYMPHONY with Lisa Simeone
Anton Bruckner: Psalm 150—Daniel Barenboim, conductor; Ruth Welting, soprano; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director
Bela Bartok: Cantata profana—Pierre Boulez, conductor; John Aler, tenor; John Tomlinson, baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director
Johannes Brahms: A German Requiem—Sir Georg Solti, conductor; Kiri Te Kanawa, soprano; Bernd Weikl, baritone; Chicago Symphony Chorus; Margaret Hillis, director
Peter Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in b Op 74 ‘Pathétique’ (excerpt)—Michael Tilson Thomas, cond
03:00 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK with Alec Baldwin
Johann Strauss Jr.: Overture to ‘Die Fledermaus’ from ‘An Evening with Danny Kaye’—Danny Kaye/Zubin Mehta, conductors (Bel Canto)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dance in C, K. 605, “Sleigh Ride”—Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland—Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor
Karl Suesdorf: Moonlight in Vermont—Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride—Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor
Edvard Grieg/Seidl: March of the Dwarfs from Lyric Suite—Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons—Frank Huang, violin/leader
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves—Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Francis Poulenc: Gloria in G—Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Judith Blegen, soprano; Westminster Choir
Sergei Prokofiev: Lt. Kijé Suite: Troika—Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: Selections from ‘Winter Bonfire’ Suite Op 122 - No. 2 Winter Holiday; No. 4 Around the Bonfire; No.8 Home Again—Skitch Henderson, piano/conductor
Peter Tchaikovsky: Selections from ‘The Nutcracker’—Alan Gilbert, conductor
Gustav Mahler: Movement 1 from Symphony No. 4—Lorin Maazel, conductor
Jacques Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes from ‘Le Voyage dans la Lune’—Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Engelbert Humperdinck: Children’s Prayer from ‘Hansel and Gretel’—Andre Kostelanetz, conductor
05:00 MILLENNIUM OF MUSIC with Robert Aubry Davis: A Graham Ross Christmas - The conductor of Clare College Cambridge celebrates early music for the season
06:00 MUSICA SACRA
06:03:25 Michael Praetorius: In dulci jubilo (1607) Quire Cleveland Peter Bennett Quire 101 2:22
06:07:57 Claudio Monteverdi: Vespers of the Blessed Virgin: Magnificat (1610) Sandra Simon, soprano Apollo's Fire Jeannette Sorrell Avie 2206 19:40
06:29:23 Traditional: Il est né le divin enfant Cleveland Orchestra Chorus Cleveland Orchestra Robert Porco MAA 2014 2:57
06:30 MUSIC AND THE SPOKEN WORD with Lloyd Newell & the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square
07:00 PIPEDREAMS with Michael Barone: American Organist’s Christmas - Music for the holiday with a distinctly homegrown flavor
LEE HOIBY: At the round earth’s imagined corners Memphis Boy Choir & Chamber Choir/John Ayer; Diane Meredith Belcher (1990 Reuter/St. John’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo7037
GERALD NEAR: My dancing day Memphis Boy Choir & Chamber Choir/John Ayer; David Kienzle (1990 Reuter/St. John’s Episcopal Church, Memphis, TN) Pro Organo7039
HENRY MARTIN: Prelude & Fugue No.18 in E-flat Adam Brakel (1965-2010 Wicks/St. James Cathedral, Orlando, FL) PD Archive (r. 9/30/20)
STEPHEN PAULUS: Hallelu. DAVID ASHLEY WHITE: Hodie Christus natus est University of St. Thomas Singers/Brady Knapp; Yuri McCoy (1998 Schoenstein/St. Basil’s Chapel, St. Thomas University, Houston, TX) Gothic 49312
DAVID CHERWIEN (arr.): 4 Christmas Carols (On Christmas night; Oh, come little children; It came upon a midnight clear; Joy to the world) Rachel Brandwein, harp; Sarah Carmack, oboe; National Lutheran Choir; David Cherwien (2003 Reuter/St. Michael’s Lutheran Church, Bloomington, MN) NLC 2019
GASTON DETHIER: Christmas (Variations on Adeste fidelis) Adam Brakel (1965-2010 Wicks/St. James Cathedral, Orlando, FL) PD Archive (r. 10/2/20)
08:00 WITH HEART AND VOICE with Peter DuBois: Christmastide - Joyous music of the season continues this week on With Heart and Voice, as Peter DuBois shares choral and organ favorites, both old and new!
09:00 IF IT AIN’T BAROQUE with John Mills
09:03:47 Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 3 Violins RV 551 (1720) Anne Akiko Meyers, violin English Chamber Orchestra David Lockington E1 Music 7790 9:26
09:15:10 Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio: Part 5 BWV 248 (1734) RIAS Chamber Chorus Academy for Early Music Berlin René Jacobs Harm Mundi 2908304 23:21
09:40:32 Pietro Antonio Locatelli: Concerto Grosso in f Op 1 # 8 'Christmas' (1721) Elizabeth Wallfisch, violin Raglan Baroque Players Nicholas Kraemer Hyperion 66981 13:18
09:54:35 Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck: Hodie Christus natus est (1619) Quire Cleveland Peter Bennett Quire 101 3:25
09:58:34 Jean-Marie Leclair: Recréation de Musique No. 2: Badinage (1738) Florilegium Channel 7595 2:01
10:00 PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY with Jim Cunningham: Manfred Honeck, conductor; Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips, director
Tomas Luis de Victoria: Dum complerentur dies Pentecostes, Ave Maria, Versa est in luctum
Anton Bruckner: Ave Maria, Locus iste
Gregorio Allegri: Miserere mei Deus
Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 ‘Romantic’
12:00 PERFORMANCE TODAY WEEKEND with Fred Child
Frank Martin: Fox Trot Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Hugh Wolff, conductor Album: European American Music Teldec 90852 Music: 4:34
Paul Dooley: Northern Nights Lisa Pegher, solo percussion; Lake George Music Festival Symphony; Roger Kalia, conductor Lake George Music Festival, Lake George High School Lake George, NY Music: 20:13
Piano Puzzler: Contestant is Colleen Stadnick from Katy, TX Music: 8:56
Richard Wagner: Tristan and Isolde: Prelude and Liebestod (Love Death) Cleveland Orchestra; George Szell, conductor Album: Wagner Without Words Sony 46286 Music: 16:55 (much shorter excerpt for example)
Matthew Lock: Selections from The Tempest Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Richard Egarr, conductor SPCO, Ordway Concert Hall, Saint Paul, MN Music: 12:54
Frederic Chopin: Mazurka in C-sharp minor, Op. 50, No. 3 Leon Fleisher, piano Album: Two Hands - Bach, Chopin, Etc. Vanguard 1551 Music: 4:29
Peter Meechan: Song of Hope Ryan Anthony, trumpet; Michael Sachs, trumpet; David Bilger, trumpet Album: Cancer Blows: Thirty Trumpet Legends, One Moment in Time, Determined to Help Blow Cancer Away Hope Records Music: 4:32
Maurice Duruflé: Requiem: Parts 1 & 3 Cecilia Bartoli, mezzo-soprano; Bryn Terfel, baritone; Saint Cecilia Orchestra; Myung-Whun Chung, conductor Album: In Paradisum DG 459365 Music: 27:41
Francisco Tárrega: Arabian Caprice Julian Bream, guitar Album: Julian Bream: La Guitarra Romantica RCA 60429 Music: 5:23
Ysaÿe M. Barnwell: Wanting Memories Cantus Album: That Eternal Day Cantus 1210 Music: 4:51
13:57:18 John Jacob Niles: I Wonder As I Wander (1933) Burning River Brass BurnRiver 2008 3:17
14:00 THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC THIS WEEK with Alec Baldwin
Johann Strauss Jr.: Overture to ‘Die Fledermaus’ from ‘An Evening with Danny Kaye’—Danny Kaye/Zubin Mehta, conductors (Bel Canto)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: German Dance in C, K. 605, “Sleigh Ride”—Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland—Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor
Karl Suesdorf: Moonlight in Vermont—Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride—Skitch Henderson, piano and conductor
Edvard Grieg/Seidl: March of the Dwarfs from Lyric Suite—Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Antonio Vivaldi: Winter from The Four Seasons—Frank Huang, violin/leader
Ralph Vaughan-Williams: Fantasia on Greensleeves—Sir Andrew Davis, conductor
Francis Poulenc: Gloria in G—Leonard Bernstein, conductor; Judith Blegen, soprano; Westminster Choir
Sergei Prokofiev: Lt. Kijé Suite: Troika—Leonard Bernstein, conductor
Sergei Prokofiev: Selections from ‘Winter Bonfire’ Suite Op 122 - No. 2 Winter Holiday; No. 4 Around the Bonfire; No.8 Home Again—Skitch Henderson, piano/conductor
Peter Tchaikovsky: Selections from ‘The Nutcracker’—Alan Gilbert, conductor
Gustav Mahler: Movement 1 from Symphony No. 4—Lorin Maazel, conductor
Jacques Offenbach: Ballet of the Snowflakes from ‘Le Voyage dans la Lune’—Bramwell Tovey, conductor
Engelbert Humperdinck: Children’s Prayer from ‘Hansel and Gretel’—Andre Kostelanetz, conductor
16:00 THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA ON THE RADIO with Robert Conrad - The Cleveland Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan, conductor and harpsichord – The Cleveland Orchestra: In Focus Episode No. 4 Inventions: Bach to Mendelssohn – recorded live in Severance Hall
George Frideric Handel: Overture and Pifa Pastorale from ‘Messiah’
Arcangelo Corelli: Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso Op 6/8)
Johann Sebastian Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G BWV 1048
Felix Mendelssohn: String Symphony No. 7 in d
17:17:52 Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 2 Op 43 (1902) Cleveland Orchestra George Szell MAA 10603 42:18
18:00 FROM THE TOP with America's finest young musicians; recorded June 2020 - This program is From the Top’s annual “Where Are They Now” show featuring interviews with From the Top alumni and the fantastic music they’re making in their early professional careers. We meet a alum pianist who has released an album to raise money for the people of Flint, Michigan who have suffered from the contaminated water crisis there, the alum winner of last year’s Queen Elizabeth Competition and an alum baritone who just won his first Grammy
Catalyst Quartet with pianist Stewart Goodyear performs Piano Quintet in G minor I. Allegro con moto by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor. The Catalyst Quartet features Karla Donehew Perez and Jesse Montgomery, violins; Paul Laraia, viola and Karlos Rodriguez, cello.
John Brancy, baritone performs "How Fair This Spot" and "Spring Waters" by Sergei Rachmaninoff, with Peter Dugan, piano
Stella Chen, violin perfoms Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 35, Mvt 3 “Allegro Vivacissimo” by Pyotr Tchaikovsky with the Belgian National Orchestra, Hugh Wolff, conductor.
Jeremy Ajani Jordan, composer/piano performs “For Flint” by Jeremy Ajani Jordan
Yi Wei, marimba, performs Sonata No.1 in G Minor, Presto by Johann Sebastian Bach for Marimba & Two Part Invention No 13 in A Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach, Yi Wei, marimba; Béla Fleck, banjo
19:00 SYMPHONY AT SEVEN with John Simna
19:03:26 Camille Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 5 Op 103 'Egyptian' (1899) Anna Malikova, piano WDR Symphony Cologne Thomas Sanderling Audite 92510 30:32
19:35:43 Alexander Glazunov: Ballet Scenes Op 52 (1895) Minnesota Orchestra Edo de Waart Telarc 80347 28:23
20:06:07 Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 Op 83 (1881) Daniel Barenboim, piano Berlin State Orchestra Gustavo Dudamel DeutGram 4794899 50:39
20:58:38 Aaron Copland: Midsummer Nocturne (1947) Leo Smit, piano Sony 82849 2:00
21:00 INNOVATIONS with Mark Satola - featuring works by Cleveland area composers, presented in cooperation with the Cleveland Composers’ Guild
Fredric Lissauer: Blue Limes “quasi una partita,” Op. 54 (2009) Arthur Klima, viola; Eric Ziolek, piano (private CD) 10:07
Fredric Lissauer : String Quartet No. 2, Op. 25 “From an Earthen Cathedral (1994) Cavani String Quartet (private CD) 14:17
Fredric Lissauer: Violin Sonata No. 3, Op. 37 (2002) Matama Takahashi, violin; Lawrence Picard, piano (private CD) 9:41
Fredric Lissauer: Two Tapestries, Op. 36 (2001-02) Amy Tarantino, piano; Karin Harrell, violin; Lisa Boyko, viola; Alan Harrell, cello (private CD) 12:19
Fredric Lissauer: Ballade Op 44 “Th’ Down ‘n’ Dirty Cobalt 60 Uptown Blues” (2005) Nicholas Underhill, piano (private CD) 4:00
21:53:47 Michael Torke: Run (1992) Atlanta Symphony Yoel Levi Ecstatic 92203 6:30
22:00 WCLV CLASSICAL WEEKEND (The City Club of Cleveland is closed for the year-end holidays.)
22:01:56 Various: Music from 'Nine Lessons & Carols' (2010) Choir King's College Cambridge Stephen Cleobury King'sColl 1 58:35
Henry John Gauntlett: Once In Royal David's City (1848)
Traditional arr Ralph Vaughan Williams: Herefordshire Carol ‘This is the Truth Sent from Above’
Boris Ord: Adam lay ybounden
Traditional arr Cleobury: A Virgin most pure
Traditional arr RL Pearsall: In dulci jubilo
Peter Tranchell: If ye would hear the angels sing
Traditional arr Ledger: Sussex Carol
Traditional arr Willcocks: God rest you merry, gentlemen
Otto Goldschmidt: A tender shoot
Michael Praetorius arr Sandström: Det är en ros utsprungen
Pierre Villette: Hymne à la Vierge
Peter Hurford: Sunny Bank
Max Reger: Mariä Wiegenlied
Traditional French arr J. Nixon: The Holly and the Ivy
Traditional arr Cleobury: While shepherds watched
Judith Weir: Illuminare, Jerusalem
Einojuhani Rautavaara: Christmas Carol
Traditional arr Mack Wilberg: Ding Dong! Merrily on high
John Francis Wade arr Cleobury: O come, all ye faithful
Felix Mendelssohn arr Willcocks: Hark! The herald Angels sing
23:00 QUIET HOUR with Rob Grier
23:03:25 Antonín Dvorák: Slavonic Dance No. 10 Op 72 # 2 (1886) Katia Labèque, piano Philips 426264 6:18
23:09:43 Franz Schreker: Intermezzo for String Orchestra Op 8 (1902) Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne James Conlon EMI 56784 6:26
23:16:10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Laudate Dominum K 339 (1780) Elina Garanca, mezzo-soprano German Radio Philharmonic Karel Mark Chichon DeutGram 21327 5:02
23:22:30 Johann Sebastian Bach: Komm süsser Tod BWV 478 (1736) Bournemouth Symphony José Serebrier Naxos 557883 4:03
23:26:33 Peter Tchaikovsky: Sérénade mélancolique Op 26 (1875) Ilya Kaler, violin Russian Philharmonic Dmitry Yablonsky Naxos 503293 9:26
23:35:52 Franz Liszt: Consolation No. 3 S 172/3 (1850) Roberto Plano, piano Decca 4812479 4:30
23:41:52 John Sheppard: Responsory 'In manus tuas, Domine' (1550) Stile Antico Harm Mundi 907419 3:57
23:45:50 Franz Schubert: Andante D 936 (1828) Cleveland Orchestra Christoph von Dohnányi MAA 75 10:52
23:57:36 George Balanchine: Valse lente (1970) Lera Auerbach, piano Bis 1502 3:36