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Essential Festive Classics from around the world

Get into the Christmas spirit with festive music from around the world, including tunes from Latin America through to the snowy sounds of Scandinavia.

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    Christmas Eve Reel, Christmas in America, Old Christmas Eve

    Music Arranger: Jeannette Sorrell. Ensemble: Apollo鈥檚 Fire.
    • Christmas on Sugarloaf Mountain.
    • Avie.
    • 001.

  • Anonymous

    Il est n茅 le divin enfant

    Performer: Ma卯trise de Radio France. Performer: Sofi Jeannin. Performer: Ma卯trise Notre-Dame de Paris. Performer: Henri Chalet. Performer: Yves Castagnet.

  • Frode Fjellheim

    Vuelie

    Composer: Christophe Beck. Choir: Cantus.

  • Anonymous

    "La Virgen lava pa帽ales" (Arr. Shaw & Parker)

    Performer: Chanticleer. Music Arranger: Alice Parker. Music Arranger: Robert Shaw.

  • The London String Ensemble

    O Christmas Tree

  • Lori Pappajohn

    Huron Carol

  • African Children's Choir

    Bolingo

  • Trad.

    Se, solens skj酶nne lys og prakt (Arr. G. Eriksson & T. Kverno for Solo Voice, Ch

    Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Performer: Marco Ambrosini. Performer: Andreas Utnem. Singer: Hanne Marit Mordal Iversen. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Music Arranger: Trond Kverno. Music Arranger: Gunnar Eriksson. Lyricist: Birgitte K. Huitfeldt. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • Veni: Songs of Christmas, Vol. 2.
    • BIS.
    • 13.

  • Jos茅 Pacheco

    Moita festa

    Conductor: Christopher Warren鈥怗reen. Orchestra: London Chamber Orchestra.
    • Midwinter's Eve: Music for Christmas.
    • Sony.
    • 12.

  • Florence Price

    Song for Snow

    Performer: Paul Shaw. Choir: VocalEssence Chorus. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.
    • Got the Saint Louis Blues.
    • Clarion.
    • 003.

  • Trad.

    Heinilla harkien kaukalon

    Choir: Helsingin kamarikuoro. Conductor: Timo Nuoranne.
    • ONDINE.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Christmas carols Sz.57

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • Leopold Mozart

    A musical sleigh ride

    Music Arranger: Philip Lane. Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • The Night Before Christmas.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.

  • William Grant Still

    Christmas in the Western World (Las Pascuas)

    Performer: Greg Kostraba. Ensemble: Toledo Clarinets.
    • CAMBRIA.

  • Ola Gjeilo

    Northern Lights [Pulchra es, amica mea]

    Choir: Phoenix Chorale. Conductor: Charles Bruffy.
    • Ola Gjeilo: Northern Lights: Phoenix Chorale/Bruffy.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • William James

    An Australian Christmas

    Orchestra: Sellers Engineering Band. Conductor: Phillip McCann.
    • A Christmas Celebration.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Trad.

    Now Found is the Fairest of Roses

    Music Arranger: Danish String Quartet. Ensemble: Danish String Quartet.
    • Last Leaf.
    • ECM.
    • 16.

  • Michael Praetorius

    Es ist ein Ros entsprungen

    Music Arranger: Jan Sandstr枚m. Choir: VOCES8.
    • DECCA.

  • Trad.

    Deck the Halls

    Music Arranger: Bj枚rn Kleiman. Ensemble: Camerata Tchaikovsky.
    • Christmas Without Words.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 301.