Favourite Christmas Music

[gurnemanz]

Just came across this recent issue:



i can't picture the great man in a Santa hat.

[ardcarp]

"At the round Earth's" in my box files, but have never actually heard it,more's the pity.

It's a great little piece, very much of its time..which is meant as a compliment, because it's before the onset of boring minimalism.
(What, me, biased?? )

[Gabriel Jackson]

I wish they'd taken the opportunity to add the Sandström version of "Es ist ein Ros' entsprungen" to the original Praetorius...

They did, it's the first track.

[Padraig]

I started loving Christmas with Silent Night, Adeste Fideles and hanging up my innocent stocking. Listened this evening to Schwarzkopf's Christmas Album 1957, the first two tracks being SN and AF. I still love them, but I'm having doubts about Santa.

[antongould]

They did, it's the first track.

Forgive him Gabriel he's been to rather a lot of Christmas festivities recently......

[Nick Armstrong]

They did, it's the first track.

Well done, Wilson, I wondered which of you would be first to spot that!

Forgive him Gabriel he's been to rather a lot of Christmas festivities recently......

No talking in the ranks, Walker!!

[Contre Bombarde]

Marcel Dupré; Chorale (XLI) on "In Dulci Jubilo" for organ, Opus 28.

Simple, quiet and hugely effective.

[cloughie]

Just came across this recent issue:



i can't picture the great man in a Santa hat.

I bet the Berlin Strings did a great job on 'I wish it could be Christmas everyday'

[bach736]

Marcel Dupré; Chorale (XLI) on "In Dulci Jubilo" for organ, Opus 28.

Thanks for reminding me of this, CB.
It is, as you say, hugely effective - and will complete my set for Christmas Eve.

[Magnificat]

Forgive him Gabriel he's been to rather a lot of Christmas festivities recently......

Stupid Boy!

VCC

[MickyD]

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but I'd like to put in a word for Paul McCreesh's spectacular "Mass for Christmas Morning" by Praetorius on Archiv.

[mangerton]

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but I'd like to put in a word for Paul McCreesh's spectacular "Mass for Christmas Morning" by Praetorius on Archiv.

Yes indeed! It would be my one Desert island Disc. And we should also mention his almost-as-spectacular Christmas Vespers, which inludes Schütz's Christmas Story

[Rolmill]

I don't know if it has been mentioned, but I'd like to put in a word for Paul McCreesh's spectacular "Mass for Christmas Morning" by Praetorius on Archiv.

Yes, this remains my favourite Christmas CD by some margin - the full congregational singing of the great Lutheran hymns is spine-tingling.

I also find the Naxos disc of Finzi's In Terra Pax and several other shorter favourites (plus a few less well-known) rather lovely.

[jean]

A taste of the Praetorius last night on Late Junction, about 1'20" in:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04v255j

[verismissimo]

Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors. Such delight.