In "A Christmas Carol," Ebenezer Scrooge not only hates Christmas, he hates generosity itself... at least until three uninvited house-guests demonstrate what greed might cost him. Join us today for a musical retelling of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens.
Episode Playlist
Hour 1
Hector Berlioz: The Birth of Christ: The Shepherd's Chorus
Boston Pops Orchestra & Tanglewood Festival Chorus | Keith Lockhart, conductor
Album: Holiday Pops
RCA 63252
Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride
Boston Pops Orchestra | Keith Lockhart, conductor
Symphony Hall, Boston, MA
Traditional Spanish, arr. Gonzalo Grau: Hacia Belen va una Burra Rin-Rin
Magos Herrera, vocals | The Knights | Eric Jacobsen, conductor
Album: THE KNIGHTS BEFORE CHRISTMAS
Bright Shiny Things 159
Traditional Austrian: Still, Still, Still
Adagio Trio
Album: Winter Gift
Adagio Trio 2
Elizabeth Poston: Jesus Christ the Apple Tree
Spivey Hall Tour Choir | Martha Shaw, conductor
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Ariel Ramirez: Gloria, from Misa Criolla
St. Olaf Choir | Anton Armstrong, conductor
St Olaf Christmas Festival, Skoglund Auditorium, St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN
Stephen Sondheim: Into the Woods: No One Is Alone
Boston Pops Orchestra | John Williams, conductor
Album: Music of the Night: Pops on Broadway 1990
Sony 45567
Claude Thornhill: Snowfall
Boston Pops Orchestra | John Williams, conductor
Album: Swing, Swing, Swing
Philips 412626
Richard Matheson: I Wish It Could Be Christmas Forever
Guy Campion and Mario Vachon, pianos
Album: Noel Pianissimo
Analektra 9818
Traditional: Jul, Jul
WDR Chorus | Stefan Parkman, conductor
Philharmonie, Cologne, Germany
Carlos Salzedo: 4 Short Fantasies
Xavier de Maistre, harp
Album: Christmas Harp
Sony 88463
Paul Salerni: Bethlehem Carol
Houston Chamber Choir | Robert Simpson, conductor
Houston Chamber Choir, Chapel of the Villa de Matel, Houston, TX
John Francis Wade: O Come, All Ye Faithful
Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Lars-Thomas Holm, conductor
Stavanger Concert Hall, Fartein Valen Hall (Main Hall), Norway
Traditional, arr. Bernhard Severin Ingemann: Beautiful Savior
Trio Medieval | Stavanger Symphony Orchestra | Lars-Thomas Holm, conductor
Stavanger Concert Hall, Fartein Valen Hall (Main Hall), Norway
Hour 2
Traditional: Cold Frosty Morning/Old Christmas/Breakin' Up Christmas
Apollo's Fire Baroque Orchestra | Jeannette Sorrell, conductor
Album: Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain: An Irish-Appalachian Celebration
Avie 2396
John Jacob Niles: I Wonder As I Wander
Kirkmount: Alex Bigney, harp and bones | Samuel Bigney, fiddle | Simeon Bigney, cello and bodhran
Album: Mittens for Christmas
Dorian 93236
Georgy Sviridov: Molitva ("Prayer")
Chanticleer | Kory Reid, conductor
Concerts at St. Ignatius, Church of St Ignatius Loyola, New York, NY
Jaakko Mäntyjärvi: Die Stimme des Kindes
Chanticleer | Kory Reid, conductor
Concerts at St. Ignatius, Church of St Ignatius Loyola, New York, NY
Ralph Vaughan Williams: Wassail Song from "Two Songs of Winter"
Judy Mason, piano | Spivey Hall Children's Choir | Martha Shaw, conductor
Spivey Hall, Clayton State University, Morrow, GA
Traditional: Child in a Manger/ Gloucestershire Wassail
Kirkmount: Alex Bigney, harp and bones | Samuel Bigney, fiddle | Simeon Bigney, cello and bodhran
Album: Mittens for Christmas
Dorian 93236
Traditional German: While by My Sheep (Als ich bei meinen Schafen)
Blake Eliason, Beth VanDam, James VanDam, soloists | Salt Lake Children's Choir | Ralph Woodward, conductor
Salt Lake Children's Choir, Cathedral of the Madeleine, Salt Lake City, UT
Traditional French: Il Est Ne / Masters in This Hall / Noel
Adagio Trio
Album: Winter Gift
Adagio Trio 2
Traditional, arr. David Wilcocks: Sweet was the Song the Virgin Sang
Choir of King's College, Cambridge | David Willcocks, conductor
Album: On Christmas Night
London/Decca 425499
Traditional: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging
Uppsala Academic Chamber Choir | Stefan Parkman, conductor
Album: Winter Sounds
Footprint 85
Harold Darke, arr. Ken Gist: In the Bleak Midwinter
Adagio Trio
Album: Winter Gift
Adagio Trio 2
Alan Silvestri: A Christmas Carol: I'm Still Here from the film
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra
Album: A Christmas Carol Original Soundtrack
Walt Disney 49208
Alan Silvestri: A Christmas Carol: Ride On My Good Man from the film
Hollywood Studio Symphony Orchestra
Album: A Christmas Carol Original Soundtrack
Walt Disney 49208
Vijay Singh: A Glimpse of Snow and Evergreen
Oregon Chorale | Jason Sabino, conductor
Album: A Glimpse of Snow and Evergreen
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