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Mark Forrest brings you an afternoon of exclusive music-making. The Choir of St John's College Cambridge and director Christopher Gray look forward to Christmas with a programme of seasonal delights, live from London's Wigmore Hall. Plus, the Lausanne Chamber Orchestra and conductor Thierry Fischer perform Stravinsky's witty and charming Pulcinella ballet suite as part of a week long celebration of dance music. There will also be highlights from the Belfast International Arts Festival. Today, pianist Charles Owen performs Schumann's Carnaval.

WIGMORE HALL LIVE
Introduced by Petroc Trelawny

In the stillness – Sally Beamish
There is a flower – John Rutter
Ave Maria – Robert Parsons
Verbum caro factum est – Hans Leo Hassler
Hymn to the Virgin – Benjamin Britten
All this time – William Walton
In dulci jubilo – German Traditional, arr Robert Lucas Pearsall
Magnificat Quinti Toni – Hieronymus Praetorius
Love came down at Christmas – Eleanor Daley
Jesus Christ the apple tree – Elizabeth Poston
Vox in Rama – George Kirbye
Coventry Carol – Anonymous, 16th century English
The Three Kings – Jonathan Dove

Choir of St John's College, Cambridge
Christopher Gray (director)

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Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Â鶹Éç Philharmonic
Ludovic Morlot (conductor)

Robert Schumann
Carnaval, Op. 9
Charles Owen (piano)

Giuseppe Verdi
Overture -'Nabucco'
Black Dyke Band
Nicholas Childs (conductor)

Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella, ballet suite
Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
Thierry Fischer (conductor)

Amilcare Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours, from 'La Gioconda'
Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra
Yi Zhang (conductor)

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