Midday Music Thursday 12/11/08

Looking for calendar listings of this week's concerts and ballets and such? That's down the page just a bit.

11 AM

• Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker: Beginning of Act I (Overture, Scene and March). Boston Sym, Ozawa. DG 435 619.
• Neusidler: Nun lob mein Seel den Herren, Psalm 103. Paul O'Dette. Harmonia Mundi 907388.
• Schubert: "Rosamunde" String Quartet (No. 13 in A minor). Takacs Quartet. Hyperion 67585.
• Manfredini: Christmas Concerto (Concerto Grosso Op. 3/12, "Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale"). Collegium Musicum 90, Standage. Chandos 0754 X.

12 N

• Celtic traditional: The Piper in the Meadow Straying/Christmas Eve. O'Reilly Consort. Intersound 1803 (A Celtic Christmas).
• Scarlatti: Messa per il Santissimo Natale (Christmas Mass). Concerto Italiano, Alessandrini. Naive 30461.
• Saint-Saens: Oboe Sonata, Op. 166. Bart Schneemann, Paolo Giacometti. Brilliant 93688.
  
• Anderson: A Christmas Festival. BBC Concert Orch, Slatkin. Naxos 8.559621.
  

1 PM

• Rimsky-Korsakov: Christmas Eve, Suite. Scottish National Orch, Jarvi. Chandos 10369(2) X.
• Fasch: Concerto in B-flat. Tempesta di Mare. Chandos 0751.