Christmas around Europe: 16 December

[doversoul1]

Andrew McGregor is our guide for the annual day of Christmas concerts from around Europe. Beginning live in Helsinki with the Finnish Baroque Orchestra and then on to Leipzig

1pm - LIVE from Kallio Church, Helsinki
2pm - from Paulinum, Leipzig

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001m2d

4pm - LIVE from Studio 1, Bavarian Radio, Munich
6pm - LIVE from Great Hall, New Town Hall, Prague
7pm - From La Visitation-du-Sault-au-Récollet Church, Montreal
8pm - From Salurinn Concert Hall, Kópavogur
9pm - LIVE from Church of the São Pedro de Alcântara Monastery,
10pm - From Sankt Pölten Cathedral, Graz
11pm - From Garrison Church, Copenhagen

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0001m2g

[Old Grumpy]

Really looking forward to this.

OG

[oddoneout]

I don't know if anyone listened to this but for me it was probably one of the best I've heard, both in terms of variety of music(despite at first sight seeming rather baroque heavy) and quality of performance. Andrew McGregor sounded as if he was enjoying it as well, even when the link went down at one stage and held up proceedings. The inadvertent 'shoehorn' moment when announcing a piece by Frantisek Xaver Brixi was so quickly corrected that it wouldn't have registered except for the ever so slight giggle that gave the game away.