Episode Playlist
Guisseppe Sammartini: Pastorale from Concerto Grosso in G Minor, Op. 5, No. 6 ("Christmas Concerto")
Les Violons du Roy with conductor Bernard Labadie
Marc-Antoine Charpentier: "Joseph est bien marie" from Noels pour les instruments
Les Violons du Roy with conductor Bernard Labadie
Harold Darke and Christina Rossetti: "In the Bleak Midwinter"
The Choir of King's College, Cambridge
Franz Schubert and Johann Gabriel Seidl: "Nachthelle" for tenor, men's chorus and piano, D.892
Pianist Martha Argerich with Coro della Radio Svizzera and conductor Diego Fasolis
Jean Sibelius: Symphony No. 6, Op. 104
The Philadelphia Orchestra with conductor Osmo Vanska
Laxmikant Pyarelal: "Jyot-se Jyot-Jagake Chalo"
The Turtle Island Quartet
Stephen Main: "The Darkest Midnight in December"
The VocalEssence Chorus with conductor Philip Brunelle
Anonymous: "Lo! He Comes With Clouds Descending"
The Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, with conductor Richard Marlow
Mary Ellen Childs: "After Dust" from "Dream House"
Ethel
Bob Chilcott: "O Nata Lux de Lumine"
Nidarosdomens Jentekor and the St. Olaf Choir with conductor Anton Armstrong
Eric Whitacre: "Lux Aurumque"
Nidarosdomens Jentekor and the St. Olaf Choir with conductor Anton Armstrong
Gustav Holst: "Venus" and "Jupiter" from "The Planets"
The Los Angeles Philharmonic with conductor Leonard Slatkin
William Beckstrand: "Winter Solstice"
The National Lutheran Choir and the Bell of the Lakes Handbell Choir with conductor David Cherwien
Traditional: "Old Song of Mary"
Trio Mediaeval
Antonio Vivaldi: "Il Duello," based upon RV 565 and 253
La Tempesta and the Celtic Band
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