Programme

Leroy Anderson (1908-1975)

A Christmas Festival [1950]

Georg Friedrich Haendel (1685-1759)

Pifa (Pastoral Symphony) from Messiah, HWV 56 [1742]

Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)

Concerto grosso in g minor for two violins, cello and strings, Op. 6 No. 8 "fatto per la Notte di Natale" [1690]

Soloists: Orsolya Szabó-Yélamo, Deirdre Murphy, violins;

Vyvyan Howard, cello

Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)

Battalia à 10 in D Major, C.61 [1673]

Léo Delibes (1836 – 1891)

Pizzicato from the ballet "Sylvia" [1876]

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Romance from ‘The Gadfly Suite’ Op. 97a [1955]

Waltz No. 2 from "Suite for Variety Orchestra" [post-1956]

Jacques Offenbach (1819–1880)

Barcarolle from “The Tales of Hoffman” [1880]

Patrick Doyle (b. 1953)

Harry in Winter and Potter Waltz [2005]

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

Blue Danube Waltz, Op. 314 [1866]

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a [1892]

- Dance of the Reed Pipes

- Trepak