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Learning to Listen: 'Messiah' and beyond

This week on Learning to Listen, we explore music that is large scale (cantatas, oratorios, etc.) but isn't confined to Handel's 

. One could categorize these selections as "Christmas music with a difference"; these works ring in the holidays in grand fashion.


Bach Collegium, Stuttgart, Helmuth Rilling

Camille Saint-Saens Christmas Oratorio - No. 1 - 

Felix Mendelssohn:  Vom Himmel Hoch - No. 1 Chorus


The New York Latvian Chamber Choir, New Chamber orchestra of Riga

Daniel Pinkham: from Christmas Cantata - III: Gloria in excelsis Deo


The Washington Chorus (with brass) / Robert Schafer

  'Have you seen a child?' and 'Shepherds, shepherdesses'


The Royal Opera House and Sadler's Wells Theatre


The Cambridge Singers and City of London Sinfonia/John Rutter

Honnegger:  A Christmas Cantata III.  Laudete Dominum omnes gentes


The London Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir / Vladimir Jurowski 

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Longtime music host and performer Andrea Blain presents classical music programming including national specials, opera and other live broadcasts and holiday programs. She also is part of a team that works on content and scripting for ‘Rhapsody in Black’ and has voiced several episodes of YourClassical Storytime.


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This week on Learning to Listen, we explore Christmas music that is large scale (cantatas, oratorios, etc.) but isn't confined to Handel's 'Messiah'. These works ring in the holidays in grand fashion.


Bloodwise Christmas concert at Royal Albert Hall

Learning to Listen: 'Messiah' and beyond

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