Letter V Classical Radio this week

Music for Advent and Hanukkah: a reconstruction of a 17th-century Lutheran Advent service with pieces by Michael Praetorius and Handel’s oratorio “Judas Maccabaeus.” 

Dec. 10
10 a.m.-1 p.m. EST
1500-1800 UTC/GMT
WDCE, University of Richmond
90.1 FM
www.wdce.org

Michel Corrette: “Symphonie de Noël” No. 4
La Fantasia/Rien Viskuilen
(Brilliant Classics)

“Awaiting the Messiah: a Lutheran Advent Service”
Michael Praetorius:
“Polyhymnia caduceatrix,”
“Musica Sionae,
“Puericinium” &
“Terpsichore” (selections)
Apollo’s Singers
Apollo’s Musettes
Apollo’s Fire/Jeannette Sorrell (Avie)

Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon X
Academy of Ancient Music/Paul Goodwin (Harmonia Mundi)

Handel: “Judas Maccabaeus”
Jamie McDougall, tenor
Emma Kirkby, soprano
Catherine Denley,
mezzo-soprano
Michael George &
Simon Birchall, basses
James Bowman, countertenor
Choir of New College, Oxford/
Edward Higginbottom
The King’s Consort/Robert King (Hyperion)