Christmas Music

[AuntDaisy]

I love the cover image of "A Venetian Christmas", Gabrieli Consort & Paul McCreesh - Gabrieli & de Rore.

[Serial_Apologist]

Adams' El Nino again

A current favourite, ahem.....

[LMcD]

A current favourite, ahem.....

I'm sure you'll warm to it in time.

[vinteuil]

... in addition to the excellent choices in my # 152 of 9 December 2020 I can very much recommend

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joyeux-Noel-French-Christmas-Music/dp/B0742WPNLH

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[french frank]

This could at a pinch (bah! humbug!) be an Upcheering work, Or What I'm listening to now, or Christmas Music: Torelli's concerti grossi 1-6 (I Musici). Coming up: Pastorale per il Santissimo Natale. What a sprightly old tunesmith he was

[Keraulophone]

… and again, at 9.30am each day this week and next:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b03kpnk3?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Jeremy Summerly can be heard talking about the history of the Festival of Nine Lessons with Carols on this DVD+CD along with a reconstruction of the first ever service of 1880 that took place in a shed in Truro and video of the (very fine!) 2014 Festival in Truro Cathedral.

https://www.regent-records.co.uk/product/the-story-of-nine-lessons-and-carols-dvd-and-cd/

[Serial_Apologist]

I'm sure you'll warm to it in time.

[MickyD]

This 4 CD collection from Andrew Parrott is well worth seeking out. Not available on Amazon UK unfortunately. It's the most wonderful gathering of festive music through the ages around the world and superbly done by Parrott and the Taverner Consort.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Carols-Taverner-Consort-Parrott/dp/B000W03RO4/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?crid=2R35OPOWBLTJ5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.iUJpxqH50omyhii6krNSHKpDkbNxCibSurj6gUd_Cvc5DCgCmZ6eahVkudhEisjEko-3gGhVEhtl-IfLlkuKK5523N0D76j-Q1TzkQCSfIhB-Mze86AiaTHfZG8TwIiJ7lkkj5igClKNM1t7ob3rVaidPqtPnfq0wdBfU4oFcV2KhZlA9b30YWp5Eu5HPARSGy7Q-5GEI-gWElGoBIMIQw.WY7RDWYWIAl1j2KaUDhruN2JwcIqOZWxxMIWdlfIkw4&dib_tag=se&keywords=andrew+parrott+christmas&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1733864412&sprefix=andrew+parrott+christmas%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-8#

[vinteuil]

This 4 CD collection from Andrew Parrott is well worth seeking out. Not available on Amazon UK unfortunately. It's the most wonderful gathering of festive music through the ages around the world and superbly done by Parrott and the Taverner Consort.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Christmas-Carols-Taverner-Consort-Parrott/dp/B000W03RO4/ref=mp_s_a_1_8?crid=2R35OPOWBLTJ5&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9 .iUJpxqH50omyhii6krNSHKpDkbNxCibSurj6gUd_Cvc5DCgCm Z6eahVkudhEisjEko-3gGhVEhtl-IfLlkuKK5523N0D76j-Q1TzkQCSfIhB-Mze86AiaTHfZG8TwIiJ7lkkj5igClKNM1t7ob3rVaidPqtPnfq 0wdBfU4oFcV2KhZlA9b30YWp5Eu5HPARSGy7Q-5GEI-gWElGoBIMIQw.WY7RDWYWIAl1j2KaUDhruN2JwcIqOZWxxMIWd lfIkw4&dib_tag=se&keywords=andrew+parrott+christma s&nsdOptOutParam=true&qid=1733864412&sprefix=and re w+parrott+christmas%2Caps%2C143&sr=8-8#

... indeed, Sir Velo was singing its praises here at 07:02 this morning, # 180

[MickyD]

Oops, sorry, I missed that from Sir Velo! But I echo his praises. Some of the discs are available singly I notice.

It's a pity the download doesn't include the booklet, as the information given on the lesser known pieces is really necessary.

[Padraig]

I was searching for a particular version of The Oxen which I heard and taped a few years ago on a folk programme on the radio. I wanted to post it for a Christmas thread but it contained a fatal flaw: in the verse 'so fair a fancy few would weave' the singer had 'in those years'. I have never found any version of that song since.

However, new to me, I liked this recording of Thomas Hardy's The Oxen.


Christmas Carol - The Oxen - Thomas Hardy - YouTube

[Barbirollians]

I am afraid I like traditional Christmas carols most though Bach's oratorio and the Messiah tend to get an airing around Christmas. For a long while a Decca CD from King's with Cleobury was my favourite but they have tended to be edged out recently by that old Chandos record from York MInster with Francis Jackson that our former member ferney recommended- for which every Christmas I am grateful.

[MickyD]

I always get out the discs that Peter Holman and the Parley of Instruments made for Hyperion of Georgian Christmas music, a nice change from the usual offerings. As part of the excellent English Orpheus series, the CDs are, I'm sure, sadly deleted.

[pastoralguy]

I always play ‘A Danish Christmas’ as performed by Musica Ficta under the direction of Bo Holten on the Naxos label.

[AuntDaisy]

I always play ‘A Danish Christmas’ as performed by Musica Ficta under the direction of Bo Holten on the Naxos label.

Do you dance around the Christmas tree? A Danish tradition (we lived in Nordjylland for 7 years).