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Christmas Music on Drive

Do you have a favorite, little known carol or composition that always reminds you of Christmas? Let the Classic Drive music elves know what it is and we'll try to play it for you.We're not looking for Jingle Bells or the Wexford Carol, lovely though they are...we want to be reminded of works that just may have slipped our attention.

Open for entries now!
The third annual Waltons Music for Schools Competition will award a total of €10,000 worth of vouchers for musical instruments, accessories, books, music technology or PA equipment from Waltons Music. Awards will be divided among six winning primary and post-primary schools, including two first prizes of €3,000 vouchers, and music groups from twelve finalist schools will have the fantastic opportunity to perform in the National Concert Hall at a concert presented by Liz Nolan!

To hear our Seamus Heaney tribute The Real and the Imaginery click on the 30th of August on the calendar on the top right hand side of this page.

Music Played on the Show

• Humoresque Duration 0:04:03 Dvorak, Antonin
• Chorus Of The Hebrew Slaves, From Nabucco Duration 0:04:50 Verdi, Giuseppe
• Gabriel's Oboe Duration 0:03:34 Morricone, Ennio
• Octet In F (3rd Movement) Scherzo: Allegro Vivace Duration 0:06:24 Schubert, Franz
• Simple Gifts Duration 0:02:52 Traditional
• Fantasiestücke, Op. 73 - No.3 (Rasch & Mit Feuer) Duration 0:04:13 Schumann, Robert
• Waltz No.2 (Jazz Suite No.2) Duration 0:03:56 Shostakovitch, Dmitri
• Concerto For Cello, 2 Oboes, 2 Horns And Strings In E Flat Major Duration 0:06:14 Boccherini, Luigi
• Track 05 Duration 0:03:45 Chopin
• Requiem - In Paradisum Duration 0:03:27 Faure, Gabriel
• Scherzo In C Minor Duration 0:05:56 Brahms, Johannes
• Polovtsian Dances Duration 0:12:33 Borodin, Alexander
• Oh, Lady Be Good! Duration 0:03:18 Gershwin, George
• Symphony No.22 In E Flat (3rd Movement) Menuetto Duration 0:03:28 Haydn, Franz Josef
• Hard Times Duration 0:04:49 Foster, Stephen
• La Capricieuse Duration 0:05:01 Elgar, Edward
• Three Pieces For Strings - Reel Duration 0:02:46 Kelly, Thomas C
• Four Sea Interludes (2nd Movement) Sunday Morning Duration 0:04:09 Britten, Benjamin
• Moldau Duration 0:05:17 Smetana, Bedrich
• Evenstar Duration 0:03:30 Shore, Howard
• Gnossiennes (5th Movement) Duration 0:03:53 Satie, Erik
• Bassoon Concerto In F (3rd Movement) Rondo Duration 0:07:56 Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
• Piano Concerto No. 5 In E Flat "Emperor" (3rd Movement) Rondo. A Duration 0:10:22 Beethoven, Ludwig Van
• Parmi Veder La Lagrime Duration 0:02:51 Verdi, Giuseppe
• Fantasia On Greensleeves Duration 0:04:52 Vaughan Williams, Ralph
• Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme Suite Op. 60 - Entrance And Dance Of Th Duration 0:05:19 Strauss, Richard
• Prelude In F Major Duration 0:03:14 Rachmaninov, Sergei
• Butterfly's Day Out Duration 0:04:57 O'Connor, Mark
• Symphony No.22 In E Flat (4th Movement) Finale Duration 0:03:20 Haydn, Franz Josef
• Funeral March Of A Marionette Duration 0:04:56 Gounod, Charles