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Biscuits & Bach: Baroque for Christmas
Program: Biscuits & Bach
Aired: Sunday, December 21, 2025 @ 7:00 am
Hosted by Rachel Stewart
Rachel Stewart shares a selection of Baroque holiday favorites.
Playlist
7 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Vom Himmel hoch, BWV 606; In dulci jubilo, BWV 608 Scott Carpenter, Tannenberg Home Moravian Church Organ (oldest existing pipe organ in America) Raven OAR-86 0 "What Good News - An Old Salem Christmas" | |
| Anonymous · "German Lullaby" Winston-Salem Children's Chorus David Pulliam, organ Barbara C. Beattie Raven OAR-86 0 "What Good News - An Old Salem Christmas" | |
| Heinrich Schütz · "Das Wort ward Fleisch" (The Word was made flesh) Yale Schola Cantorum David Hill Hyperion 68315 "Schutz: The Christmas Story" | |
| Heinrich Schütz · Jubilate Deo Canadian Brass, with members of New York Philharmonic & Philadel Elmer Iseler Philips 43839 2 "Gabrieli for Brass" | |
| Heinrich Schütz · "Jauchzet dem Herrn" (Be joyful in the Lord) Musica Sacra Chorus Richard Westenburg RCA Victor Red Seal 60970 "Songs and Psalms of the Divine" | |
| Dietrich Buxtehude · "Das neugeborene Kindelein" (The Newborn Babe, aka The Infant Jesus) Regensburg Cathedral Choir; Munich Resident Chamber Orchestra Georg Ratzinger Dhm Deutsche Harmonia 77049- 2 "Christmas Carols" | |
| Arcangelo Corelli · Pastorale, from Concerto grosso in g, Op. 6, No. 8 "Christmas Concerto" The English Concert Trevor Pinnock Archiv Produktion 000527 102 "The Baroque Christmas Album" | |
| Johann Heinrich Schmelzer · Sonata Natalis (Christmas Sonata) Virtuosi Saxoniae Ludwig Guttler, trumpet Ludwig Guttler Berlin Classics 1059 "Christmas Concertos" | |
| Vincenzo Ugolini · "Missa Beata es Virgo Maria" (Blessed Virgin Mary) Montreal Studio of Ancient Music Christopher Jackson ATMA Classique 2508 "Musica Vaticana" | |
8 am | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · "Almighty God, look graciously" from Christmas Cantata BWV 63 Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner Archiv Produktion 463 58 9-2 "JS Bach: Cantatas BWV 63, 64, 121, 133" | |
| Marc-Antoine Charpentier · Noel pour les instruments (Instrumental Carols) Les Violons du Roy Bernard Labadie Sono Luminus 90180 "Simphonies des Noels" | |
| Pietro Locatelli · Pastorale from "Christmas" Concerto in f, Op. 1, No. 8 I Musici Philips 412739 "Christmas Concertos" | |
| Philipp Böddecker · "Jesus is Born" London Baroque Emma Kirkby, soprano Charles Medlam BIS 1135 "Christmas Music" | |
| George Frideric Handel · Messiah: Sinfonia; "And the Glory of the Lord"; "For Unto Us a Child is Born" The Choir of Clare College; Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Rene Jacobs Harmonia Mundi 901928 "Handel's Messiah" | |
| Tomas Luis de Victoria · "Ave Maria" Tallis Scholars Peter Phillips Gimell 010 "Christmas Carols and Motets" | |
| Philipp Heinrich Erlebach · "Fuerchtet euch nicht" (Do not fear) (Christmas Cantata) Saxon Vocal Ensemble; Batzdorf Court Ensemble Matthias Jung CPO 777332 "Baroque Christmas Cantatas from Central Germany" | |
9 am | |
| Traditional German · In dulci jubilo (setting by JS Bach) Dan Miller, organ (Calvary Church, Charlotte, NC) (rec. 1990) private recording "Christmas Joy" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248 (Part II) (Annunciation of the Shepherds) Bach Akademie Charlotte (rec. Sat. June 10, 2023, Myers Park Pre Scott Allen Jarrett "Bach: Christmas Oratorio" | |
| Antonio Vivaldi · Violin Concerto in E, RV 270 (Christmas concerto) La Pieta Angele Dubeau, violin Angele Dubeau Analekta 28730 "Angèle Dubreau & La Pietà: Noel" | |
| William Byrd · "Ave Maria" Stile Antico Harmonia Mundi 807517 "Puer natus est - Tudor Music for Advent and Christmas" | |
| Thomas Tallis · "Gloria" from "Puer natus est" mass Stile Antico Harmonia Mundi 807517 "Puer natus est - Tudor Music for Advent and Christmas" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Chorus No. 1 from Christmas Cantata 122 "The Newborn Little Babe" Collegium Vocale Philippe Herreweghe Harmonia Mundi 901594 "Bach: Christmas Cantatas" | |
10 am | |
| Arcangelo Corelli · Concerto grosso in g, Op. 6, No. 8 "Christmas Concerto" The English Concert Trevor Pinnock Archiv Produktion 437834 "Gloria - Vivaldi; Corelli - A. Scarlatti" | |
| Johann Sebastian Bach · Cantata BWV 132 "Prepare the way, prepare the course" Concentus musicus of Vienna Sebastian Hennig, soprano; Rene Jacobs, alto; Marius van Altena, tenor; Max van Egmond, bass Nicholas Harnoncourt Warner Classics 567107 "J. S. Bach: The Complete Bach Edition" | |
| Pavel Josef Vejvanovsky · Sonata Natalis (Christmas Sonata) Virtuosi Saxoniae Ludwig Guttler, trumpet Ludwig Guttler Berlin Classics 1059 "Christmas Concertos" | |
| Alessandro Scarlatti · "Christmas Cantata" Collegium Musicum 90 & Choir Susan Gritton, soprano Simon Standage Chandos 754 "Christmas Concertos and Cantatas" | |