Christmas Music

[BBMmk2]

take no notice! I do have these wayward thoughts, from time to time! :)

I just been listening to Parry's Ode to the Nativity, in Sir David Willcock's recording. what a great work this is! :)

[Padraig]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyvc_D6y7EY

[DublinJimbo]

== CROSS POST [ also in the What are you listening to now thread ] ==

Es singt und klingt mit Schalle (I listened on the Naxos Music Library).

Christmas music by Schütz, Bach, Pretorius, Rheinberger, Karg-Elert and many others, organised in a 70-minute programme with linking pieces for brass quintet and organ. Performed by the Neuer Knabenchor Hamburg, the Elbeblech Brass Quintet and Moritz Schott on organ, all under the direction of Ulrich Kaiser. A wonderful disc.

[Padraig]

I Sing of a Night in Bethlehem Don Oiche Úd i mBeithil

Altan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD_ygWD1ows

Poem/translation at 'show more'

[BBMmk2]

take no notice! I do have these wayward thoughts, from time to time! :)

I just been listening to Parry's Ode to the Nativity, in Sir David Willcock's recording. what a great work this is! :)

I think I have had a bad time with my medical condition of late, which can be a nuisance!

[doversoul1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mYfzf5O8QY

Léonin - Messe du Jour de Noël (Ensemble Organum)

[Nick Armstrong]

== CROSS POST [ also in the What are you listening to now thread ] ==

Es singt und klingt mit Schalle (I listened on the Naxos Music Library).

Christmas music by Schütz, Bach, Pretorius, Rheinberger, Karg-Elert and many others, organised in a 70-minute programme with linking pieces for brass quintet and organ. Performed by the Neuer Knabenchor Hamburg, the Elbeblech Brass Quintet and Moritz Schott on organ, all under the direction of Ulrich Kaiser. A wonderful disc.

Thanks for this steer, DJ. It's also to be found on iTunes both to buy or (for those of us who maintained our monthlies) stream... which is what I'm doing right now. The choral sound is really fresh and alive (and accurate - plus those German lads really deliver the English well ... only the occasional vowel sound seems to defeat them, like 'your' and the indefinite before 'bed' ... "ey bed" rather than "uh bed" ... call me picky!); and I like the Sandström Es ist ein Ros arranged for brass and organ.

I'll wait to see if CD Review unearths any Yuletide gems tomorrow, but I might have to download this to listen to on Xmas journeys - organ music in particular really seems to work on my car system, and that resonant acoustic should sound good in the Audi which ought to purr along happily with all these Germans getting festive!

[Pabmusic]

Well, here's one piece of 'Christmas' music, I suppose, from 1859. At least it's a prezzie for all of you:



Here's an audio transcription (though the voices are replaced by brass instruments, and I couldn't be bothered to do four verses):

http://www.mediafire.com/listen/283cuxu3b79j5xe/Jingle_bells.mp3

And here's the lyrics:

Dashing through the snow
In a one-horse open sleigh
Over the fields we go
Laughing all the way
Bells on bobtail ring,
Making spirits bright:
What fun it is to laugh and sing
A sleighing song tonight!

Jingle bells, jingle bells,

Jingle all the way.
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.
Jingle bells, jingle bells,
Jingle all the way;
Oh! what fun it is to ride
In a one-horse open sleigh.

A day or two ago

I thought I'd take a ride;
And soon, Miss Fanny Bright
Was seated by my side,
The horse was lean and lank
Misfortune seemed his lot,

He got into a drifted bank
And then we got upsot.

A day or two ago,
The story I must tell:
I went out on the snow,
And on my back I fell;
A gent was riding by
In a one-horse open sleigh,
He laughed as there I sprawling lie,
But quickly drove away.

Now the ground is white

Go it while you're young:
Take the girls tonight
And sing this sleighing song;
Just get a bobtailed bay,
Two forty as his speed:
Hitch him to an open sleigh
And crack! You'll take the lead.

Happy Christmas!

[BBMmk2]

Nice one pabs! Thanks! :)

[Lat-Literal]

Peter Dawson etc - Miners' Christmas Eve - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cs873tj6dk
Rose Ensemble - Give Good Gifts (1893) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkNu0oM1HZY
Four Shillings Short - The Ditchling Carol - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-r5H8Y1hY0

Judy Collins - Cherry Tree Carol (1996) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5DSEeqnwjE
Mompou/Larrocha - El Noi De La Mare - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbIeOx2Cwcs
Victoria Spivey - Christmas Morning Blues - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXkMQciZV8A

(Now with correct links)

[Padraig]

Well, here's one piece of 'Christmas' music, I suppose, from 1859. At least it's a prezzie for all of you:

Happy Christmas!

Thank you Pabs! Jingle Bells is probably THE Christmas secular song, beloved by children from 1 to 92, and that includes me in a big way.
1859!

[mangerton]

PGT mentioned that "reliable Old Lutheran" JSB, and I bought this a couple of weeks ago. Excellent, and highly recommended.

I should add I have no connection to Linn.

In addition to that, I've been listening to the (again Lutheran) McCreesh/Gabrieli Consort Christmas morning and Vespers recordings, and to Messiaen's "La Nativité du Seigneur".

[ahinton]

PGT mentioned that "reliable Old Lutheran" JSB, and I bought this a couple of weeks ago. Excellent, and highly recommended.

I should add I have no connection to Linn.

In addition to that, I've been listening to the (again Lutheran) McCreesh/Gabrieli Consort Christmas morning and Vespers recordings, and to Messiaen's "La Nativité du Seigneur".

Ah, yes; Olivier Messiaen, that other notable "reliable old Lutheran"...

[Lat-Literal]

Not many have it in their blood.

These do:

The Unthanks - 2000 Miles -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=litz4VEmKIc

....and an early one for New Year:

Tar Barrel in Dale -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pks0D2xBfI

[Beef Oven!]