KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ The Festival of Christmas: Carols & Songs

Analog Audio

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Event Type

Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

AM.1982.12.23

Program Length

57 min

Dates

1982-12-23 | broadcast
| 1982-12-23 | created

Genres

Classical music
Operas

Musical Selections

Adeste Fideles (“O Come All Ye Faithful”) (ca. 1740) (2:51) / John Francis Wade -- Gesu Bambino (4:21) / Pietro Yon -- Good King Wenceslas (3:00) / [arr. by Douglas Gamley] -- Deck The Halls with Boughs of Holly (1:05) -- Stille Nacht (“Silent Night”) [text by Josef Mohr] (3:30) / Franz Xaver Gruber -- God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman (2:27) -- Angels We Have Heard On High (1:24) -- The Coventry Carol (3:21) -- Carols of the Bells (1:23) -- The Kings / Peter Cornelius (3:48) -- The Virgin’s Slumber Song, Op. 76, No. 52 (2:00) / Max Reger -- Away in a Manger (2:54) -- It Came Upon a Midnight Clear [text by Edmund Sears] (2:43) / Richard Storrs Willis -- O Little Town of Bethlehem [text by Phillips Brooks] (2:44) / Lewis Redner -- O Sanctissima (2:32) / [arr. by Ludwig van Beethoven] -- Ave Maria (2:33) / Johann Sebastian Bach & Charles Gounod -- Hallelujah ist ein fröhlich Gesang (3:22)

Performers

Renata Tebaldi, soprano (Adeste)
Luciano Pavarotti, tenor (Gesu)
Joan Sutherland, soprano (Good ; It Came)
Philadelphia Brass Ensemble (Deck)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, soprano (Stille ; Hallelujah)
Forbes Robinson, bass (God)
Leontyne Price, soprano (Angels ; Ave)
Herbert von Karajan, conductor (Angels)
Mormon Tabernacle Choir (Coventry ; Carols)
Hermann Prey, baritone (Kings)
Vienna Boys’ Choir (Kings ; O Little)
Renata Scotto, soprano (Virgin)
Mario Lanza (Away)
New York Philharmonic (O Little)
Leonard Bernstein, conductor (O Little)
Accademia Monteverdiana (Sanctissima)

Subjects

Christmas music
Carols
Choruses, Sacred
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with organ
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with instrumental ensemble
Choruses, Sacred (Mixed voices) with orchestra
Sacred songs
Sacred songs (High voice) with orchestra
Sacred songs (High voice) with instrumental ensemble
Sacred songs (Low voice) with organ