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Note: Thanks for all the great requests. We have filled our show with your music. Be listening on Dec. 24 at 7 p.m. on CBC Radio 2 and 10 p.m. on CBC Radio One.

December is an amazing month here at CBC Music as we start preparing special holiday programming. There's so much great classical Christmas music, and it puts everyone in a festive mood.

This year, we'd like to share the joy by inviting you, the CBC classical community, to get involved. We've set aside a few hours on Christmas Eve on both CBC Radio One and Radio 2, and we'd like to fill them with your favourite classical Christmas music.

The show will be hosted by Katherine Duncan, and will be called All I Want for Christmas. This is your chance to share your favourite classical Christmas music with our radio audience across the country and around the world.

Send us your requests for carols, oratorio excerpts, concertos and symphonies, and be specific. If you have a favourite recording of a particular piece of music, please let us know.

We'd also like to know a little something about you and why you've chosen the music you have. Maybe you'd like to dedicate it to someone, or share a favorite Christmas tradition, or make a Christmas wish. Don't feel you have to write a novel, but please do offer a personal note or two for us to share with our listeners on Christmas Eve.

Submit your classical Christmas music requests and stories to classical@cbc.ca. It helps if you use the subject line All I Want for Christmas. Or, you can leave your request in the comments below.

We're looking forward to collaborating with you on this Christmas Eve special. Here are the broadcast details:

All I Want for Christmas
with host Katherine Duncan
Monday, Dec. 24
10:00 p.m. to 12:00 a.m. on CBC Radio One
7:00 to 10:00 p.m. on CBC Radio 2

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#1 posted by
Augmented Sixth
on Dec 05, 2012

I would like to hear the annunciation section of Handel's Messiah, from the Pifa through to the chorus Glory to God in the highest. And if you could tack on Rejoice greatly, of daughter of Zion, that would be great. My favourite recording? The English Concert conducted by Trevor Pinnock with soprano soloist Arlene Auger. It is heaven. If you close your eyes, you can see it all happen, the music is so vivid: the shepherds and their flock, the angel of the Lord and the multitude of the heavenly host. Merry Christmas, everyone!

#2 posted by
Diminuendo
on Dec 05, 2012

Would you play J.S. Bach's Sonata for flute and harpsichord, BWV 1031? I realize it's not Christmas music but when I was a teen studying piano, my father (an avid amateur flutist) asked me to accompany him. This sonata by Bach was our favourite piece to play together. My father is an old man now, and suffering from Alzheimer's disease, so we don't play music together anymore. But music is one of the few things he still responds to, and if he were to hear this music on Christmas Eve, it might trigger some fond memories for him and for me. (He would prefer to hear a recording with piano accompaniment.)

#3 posted by
Derek Lindner
on Dec 06, 2012

The pieces I would like others to hear next year are

Jocelyn Morlock's Three Meditations on Light (16') for violoncello and harp

I conversed with you in a dream (14') for flute and piano

If they're too long, a movement would do and I think they'd be suitable for either the Signal, Tempo or Shift as they are very listenable. I'd be super stoked to hear her music on the radio.

#4 posted by
onlytony
on Dec 10, 2012

any of the brandenbugh concerti as they are filled with light and heavy with glorious sound of snow

#5 posted by
Katherine Duncan
on Dec 11, 2012

Thanks for all of these requests! We've still got time to work a few more into our Christmas eve show, so keep them coming! If you don't want to make them public by writing them, you can send them via email to classical@cbc.ca

#6 posted by
Azheibell
on Dec 11, 2012

I love listening to "In the Bleak Midwinter". I think it was King's College Choir - anyway it was a beautiful young man singing (maybe Aled Jones?). I heard it years ago when I was singing in classical choirs, then I had the opportunity to sing Alto in a sextet and just filled me with joy to sing the harmonies. All around my favourite carol!

#7 posted by
Catherine McClelland
on Dec 11, 2012

Question for Azheibell - Do you prefer the Gustav Holst version, or the Harold Darke? We aim to please!

#8 posted by
dorelmin
on Dec 13, 2012

Dear Katherine,

Every Christmas we seem to find one album that we can't seem to get enough of. This year it's Merain Trio's Celtic Christmas, which our daughter sent us from Amsterdam. Whether it's cleaning the house, doing the baking, trimming the tree, or wrapping presents, (today's activity), we have had this delightful album for our soundtrack this year, with no sign of it becoming tiresome yet. If you could play David Monks' lovely Irish carol Don oiche ud I mBeithil from this album that would be great!

#9 posted by
gthomson
on Dec 13, 2012

What rights does CBC have to re-broadcast their own material? I would love to hear any of the Stuart McClean's stories about Dave and his Christmas antics. How about past annual concerts from St. Paul's cathedral in Montreal? I used to love listening to the Max Ferguson show before Christmas and all the celtic holiday music he would play....

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