Christmas Carol (arr. Kenneth Leighton): O Leave Your Sheep
Louis Halsey/The Elizabethan Singers; Simon Preston, organ
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
Yoel Levi/Cleveland Orchestra
Christmas Carol (arr. Paul J. Christiansen): Our Lowly King
Randolph F. Jones/The Colorado Choir; Patricia Cottrell, piano
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Martha Rearick): The Nutcracker, Op.71: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
UpTown Flutes
Anonymous: Speciosus forma
Anonymous 4
Christmas Carol (arr. Sylvia Woods/Don Snyder): The Coventry Carol/While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks/First Noël
Sylvia Woods, harp
I remember practicing parts of Finlandia when I was first learning to play oboe, and I had no idea then that it was a sort of unofficial anthem of the Finnish people and had encouraged them during their fight for independence from Russia at the turn of the last century.
Louis Halsey/The Elizabethan Singers; Simon Preston, organ
Jean Sibelius: Finlandia, Op.26
Yoel Levi/Cleveland Orchestra
Christmas Carol (arr. Paul J. Christiansen): Our Lowly King
Randolph F. Jones/The Colorado Choir; Patricia Cottrell, piano
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky (arr. Martha Rearick): The Nutcracker, Op.71: Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy
UpTown Flutes
Anonymous: Speciosus forma
Anonymous 4
Christmas Carol (arr. Sylvia Woods/Don Snyder): The Coventry Carol/While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks/First Noël
Sylvia Woods, harp
I remember practicing parts of Finlandia when I was first learning to play oboe, and I had no idea then that it was a sort of unofficial anthem of the Finnish people and had encouraged them during their fight for independence from Russia at the turn of the last century.
John