Christmas Music

[MickyD]

Does the Corrette booklet have much info? (Just wondering - in my drive to "stop buying CDs unless I know I really want them"). I see its available on Naxos Music Library but for Brilliant you don't get the PDF booklets . (It can be found on label list - Initial C, page 5 Cat No : BC93538). http://www.for3.org/forums/showthread.php?7506-Online-Naxos-music-library).

Back with my CD collection...the Brilliant Corrette CD has a brief essay written by the organist and director of the ensemble.

[Padraig]

I have been listening to Biber's Rosary Sonatas, in particular No 3 of the Joyful Mysteries, The Nativity. I decided to try to attend to what I thought the composer was thinking - a mediation on Mary and the Birth in the context of the life of Christ. I gave it a good go and I even recited a decade of the Rosary to help my meditation - my early Catholic education was a help in all this.
Regardless of dabbling in mysticism, which I think I was doing, I found the music itself mysterious and unique; the tuning probably added to this but you would need to be a violinist to appreciate these qualities; there was a deep sadness in the music in spite of the traditional joyousness of the occasion, aided by the key of B minor, and the organ and theorbo helped to provide the solemnity of the Christmas Nativity scene.
I probably imagined that I heard the ghost of Corelli's Christmas Concerto as I listened and I wonder if perhaps Biber influenced how Baroque composers treated the Nativity theme.
I would recommend this piece for Christmas, but I don't think it is necessary to hear the 'whole work'. There are 16 sonatas in all on 2 CDs in the version I have which features Rachel Podger.

[vinteuil]

I even recited a decade of the Rosary to help my meditation - my early Catholic education was a help in all this.r.

... I liked the bit in today's obit of Harry Blamires - ' His preoccupation with Samuel Beckett and Joyce led him to ponder the nature of “Irishness”. “The English are allergic to Christianity, while the Irish readily get hooked on it,” he remarked in his CS Lewis Memorial Lecture of 1982. He followed this up even more provocatively and drolly with reference to liberal Protestant English theologians: “The spectacle of unbelievers who seem unable to get Christianity out of their systems is an Irish spectacle, whereas the spectacle of supposed believers, especially theologians, who seem incapable of getting Christianity into their systems, is plainly an English spectacle.” '

[Lat-Literal]

Mabel Scott - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nk3rODB-hNo
Otis Redding - Merry Christmas Baby - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zpzty172gtM
Nat King Cole - The Christmas Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwacxSnc4tI
The Ronettes - Frosty the Snowman - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76sh1BWCQSc
Greg Lake - I Believe in Father Christmas - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXCEdrnaFlY

[teamsaint]

Never heard this before Friday.

Like it a lot, though her breathing technique needs work.

Sinead O’Connor , Silent Night.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5FAbdkZg4&list=RDeq5FAbdkZg4&start_radio=1

[Padraig]

Never heard this before Friday.

Like it a lot, though her breathing technique needs work.

Sinead O’Connor , Silent Night.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eq5FAb...&start_radio=1

I have just found this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kSvivCZmv8

[cloughie]

I put on an mp3 entitled Christmas Music 2010 - several Christmas CDs across genres with 465 tracks - pressed shuffle - and other than one or two turkeys - well to be expected on Christmas Eve - they were mostly good - don’t ask who the artists were, but While Sheps - the boring ordinary one came up twice!

[BBMmk2]

One I’ve come across is for concert band, by Alfred Reed, Russian Christmas Music. Very good piece, if I ever heard one.

[antongould]

Anything this year that’s old, new, borrowed or whatever ...... ?????

[cloughie]

Anything this year that’s old, new, borrowed or whatever ...... ?????

Charity shop this morning in Camborne - Grimethorpe Colliery Band Christmas CD - a Chandos Brass recording so should be good. 50p!

[Serial_Apologist]

Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgeral over the PA at the local Sainsbury's for the forseeable. They must have caught the crooner virus.

[crb11]

Anything this year that’s old, new, borrowed or whatever ...... ?????

You'll be after the Christmas Blues album that Qobuz are currently giving away then.

[antongould]

Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgeral over the PA at the local Sainsbury's for the forseeable. They must have caught the crooner virus.

Oh very good S_A

[Padraig]

Anything this year that’s old, new, borrowed or whatever ...... ?????

Blue?

OK Bob Dorough: Blue Christmas

. . . and old.

[MickyD]

Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgeral over the PA at the local Sainsbury's for the forseeable. They must have caught the crooner virus.