Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker – Antal Dorati’s complete Concertgebouw Orchestra version; selections from other recordings (Ansermet, Previn, Rozhdestvensky, Slatkin); and The Nutcracker Suite – conducted by Roger Désormière, and also in Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington’s arrangement.

Tchaikovsky’s The Nutcracker – Antal Dorati’s complete Concertgebouw Orchestra version; selections from other recordings (Ansermet, Previn, Rozhdestvensky, Slatkin); and The Nutcracker Suite – conducted by Roger Désormière, and also in Billy Strayhorn & Duke Ellington’s arrangement.

Dec 24, 2025 | Christmas 2025 [the twelve days, 24/12-4/1/2026, have passed, relevant posts now collected], Videos

Dorati’s third complete recording of Nutcracker. From Previn’s earlier LSO version; he recorded Nutcracker again, second time with the RPO (both EMI/Warner). French National Symphony Orchestra/Roger Désormière; 1949. From the...
Have Yourself a Merry Little (Baroque) Christmas – Bach, Corelli, Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti – Sheep May Safely Graze/Ormandy … Hallelujah/Klemperer.

Have Yourself a Merry Little (Baroque) Christmas – Bach, Corelli, Handel, Alessandro Scarlatti – Sheep May Safely Graze/Ormandy … Hallelujah/Klemperer.

Dec 23, 2025 | Christmas 2025 [the twelve days, 24/12-4/1/2026, have passed, relevant posts now collected], Videos

J. S. Bach ‘Sheep May Safely Graze’ – Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208 (Hunting Cantata). Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter. Corelli Concerto Grosso in G-minor, Opus 6/8 (‘Christmas Concerto’). Members of Frankfurt Radio...
From yours truly, via another Anderson – with Leonard conducting Leroy – I wish you all a Happy Yuletide. Plus Edward Johnson’s Christmas Collection.

From yours truly, via another Anderson – with Leonard conducting Leroy – I wish you all a Happy Yuletide. Plus Edward Johnson’s Christmas Collection.

Dec 14, 2025 | Christmas 2025 [the twelve days, 24/12-4/1/2026, have passed, relevant posts now collected], Guest Contributors, Ramblings, Videos

Leroy Anderson’s A Christmas Festival offers a compilation of Christmas faves in just nine minutes. Edward’s octo-part Christmas Collection… I expect you’ve already got some Christmas YouTubery lined up, so I hope these suggestions aren’t...