For my final day of the Advent Calendar, I thought I'd share a lesser-known piece of music by the composer Rimsky-Korsakov. Most people will recognise his 'Flight of the Bumblebee' or his Scheherezade suite but he wrote a beautiful opera called "Christmas Eve". It is a charming piece of music with beautiful fairytale quality. It is based on Nikolai Gogol's short story Evenings on a farm near Dikanka. He turned it into an orchestral suite a few years later. Here is a recording of it.
I hope you enjoy it and enjoy this most holy of nights!