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Live Christmas Special

Join Jamie and the Maxwell Quartet in session

Join Jamie for a live Christmas special, with music in the studio from The Maxwell Quartet. Jamie’s musical selection box also features a new release from The Earthtones Trio and The National Youth Choir of Scotland’s latest EP, plus festive listener requests and Christmas favourites from Leroy Anderson, Vaughan Williams and Tchaikovsky.

1 hour, 55 minutes

Last on

Sun 20 Dec 2020 21:00

Music Played

  • Trad.

    God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

    Music Arranger: Euan Stevenson. Ensemble: Earthtones Trio.
    • God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen.
    • iOcco Music.
  • Johnny Marks

    Rudolph

    Performer: Oliver Rundell. Music Arranger: Richard Allain. Choir: NYCOS National Boys Choir. Choir: NYCoS National Girls Choir. Director: Christopher Bell.
    • Until We Meet Again.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Sir James MacMillan

    O Radiant Dawn

    Choir: Apollo5.
    • O Radiant Dawn.
    • Voces Cantabiles Music.
  • Nathaniel Gow

    Coilsfield House / Drunk At Night, Dry In The Morning

    Composer: Niel Gow. Performer: George Smith. Performer: Duncan Strachan. Ensemble: デュオ・マックスウェル.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C Major Op 74 No 1 - Finale Vivace

    Ensemble: The Maxwell Quartet.
    • String Quartet in C Major Op 74 No 1.
    • Linn.
    • 4.
  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Director: Stephen Cleobury.
    • Christmas at King's.
    • EMI.
    • 10.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Troika (Lieutenant Kije Suite Op 60)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Prokofiev: Orchestral Works.
    • Chandos.
  • Cameron Barnes, Blythe Duff & Red Hot Chilli Pipers

    Fairytale of New York

    • Fairytale of New York.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    In The Christmas Tree (The Nutcracker)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker: Berliner Philharmoniker/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 9.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in G minor, Op 6 No 8 (3rd mvt.)

    Orchestra: Kammerorchester Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. Conductor: Hartmut Haenchen.
    • Christmas Concertos - Kammerochestrer Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 20.
  • Paul Mealor

    I Pray

    Performer: Oliver Rundell. Choir: NYCOS & NYCOS Children's Choir. Singer: Jamie MacDougall. Director: Christopher Bell.
    • Until We Meet Again.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Hector Berlioz

    L'enfance du Christ (L'adieu des bergers)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ.
    • LSO Live.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah, HWV 56: And Suddenly There Was With The Angel/Glory To God In The Hi...

    Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society. Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Jane Glover.
    • Handel: Messiah.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 215.
  • Paul Mealor

    Stronger For The Storm

    Composer: Fiona Kennedy. Performer: Fiona Kennedy. Performer: Calum McColl. Performer: Nils Elders. Performer: Thoren Ferguson. Lyricist: Grahame Davies. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Choir: Global Virtual Choir.
    • Stronger For The Storm.
    • Bandcamp.
  • Leroy Anderson

    A Christmas Festival

    Orchestra: Dallas Winds. Conductor: Jerry Junkin.
    • Horns for the Holidays.
    • Reference Recordings.
    • 8.
  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hänsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures.
    • Philips.
    • 5.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Copland: Appalachian Spring.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Michael Ferguson

    Metropolitan Mass - Kyrie

    Performer: Simon Leach. Choir: Schola Cantorum of St Mary's Catholic Cathedral. Director: Michael Ferguson.
    • With Angels and Archangels.
    • Delphian.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte K.588)

    Singer: Hillevi Martinpelto. Singer: Alison Hagley. Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Simon Rattle on EMI Classics.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.
  • Trad.

    Silent Night

    Performer: Oliver Rundell. Music Arranger: James Whitbourn. Choir: NYCOS & NYCOS Children's Choir. Director: Christopher Bell.
    • Until We Meet Again.
    • Signum Classics.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for viola and small orchestra (Carol & Christmas Dance)

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • Vaughan Williams: Suite / Flos Campi.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1-3.

Broadcast

  • Sun 20 Dec 2020 21:00