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Any recording artist, any Christmas song, what is/are your fave(s)?
Mine starts w/ "Silver and Gold".
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This has always been one of my favorites...
Ron
Hope you guys are playing and enjoying this wonderful Christmas music today!
Excellent suggestions guys!
One of the original "audiophile" favs and damned fine music, too.
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Richard Verreau, tenor, Un grand Noel classique. Verreau was a wonderful tenor. The first CD contains one of the best recordings of Minuit Chretiens (O Holy Night to you). The second CD has some technical deficiencies, chiefly with rather syrupy accomaniments and the chorus coming from the left channel with Verreau's voice coming from the left channel, but he sings the songs so well it's worth it. Amazon link below.En la fete de Noel, La petite bande de Montreal, conductor Martin Dagenais. This is so well done it's hard to beat.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00002R2X7/ref=tmm_acd_new_olp_sr?ie=UTF8&condition=new&sr=1-1&qid=1419277164
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“Somebody was always controlling who got a chance and who didn’t. - Charles Bukowski
It doesn't get more ethereally beautiful than this.
Russell
Rene Fleming said recently in Chicago that the Schubert Ave Maria on that Price/Karajan disc was her favorite Christmas recording.
With its alternation of movements from a Spanish-style Baroque Mass setting with the earthier, folk-inspired music of the Americas from the same era (played, it would seem, on everything from a conch shell to 20 zillion different kinds of Baroque guitars!), this disc (released in 2003 and also available as an SACD) is one of the most enchanting I know of. The final track, with its very high-lying parts for a couple of solo sopranos alternating with chorus conveys the believer's ecstasy at the birth of Jesus with such elation that even non-believers such as myself can be swept up in the joyful self-transcendence.
Nor does it hurt that one of the soloists, Clara Sanabras, was one of the very few HIP babes I know of (although she by no means confines herself to HIP, and has appeared as soloist on the soundtracks to "Gladiator" and "Lord of the Rings")!
We have about 50 Christmas CD's to keep the wife happy.
The Kmart special is one of those public domain compilations with Nat King Cole doing "The Christmas Song" and Bing Crosby doing "White Christmas", etc.. But what makes it special is the little clips between songs of Bing talking to the troops on his radio show, very touching and heartwarming. You can just see the soldiers and their families listening to the radio and trying to get through it all.
Here are a few in no particular order:
California Guitar Trio: A Christmas Album
Chanticleer with Dawn Upshaw: Christmas with Chanticleer
Cantus: Comfort and Joy Vol. 1
Carla Bley: Carla's Christmas Carols
Hot Club of San Francisco: Hot Club Cool Yule
I could go on...
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
The end of 1984 gave us the two greatest holiday songs ever, Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?," and Wham's "Last Christmas."
Alternately, my wife and daughter love Trans Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Canon."
The Audiophiles' DJ,
-Lummy The Loch Monster
Yep, 2 80's classics!
From my favorite christmas album.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
Joey DeFrancesco has a new 2 CD release, all Christmas music. Organ trio plus.
If you get it from his website, he autographs it. Neat.
"If people don't want to come, nothing will stop them" - Sol Hurok
a nicer sampler w/Bob Dorough doing Blue X-mas w/Miles and Wayne Shorter.
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If I can remember far back enough I'm sure I must have done some Chjristmas gigs in restaurants and the like, and I remember I always liked the changes on Winter Wonderland - great to play over.Nice arrangement by Dave Wolpe - starts at 0.45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJHK92PksE
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amazingly cool Christmas compilation CDs burned by an Amoeba Music employee and given to fellow employees at Christmas. LOTS of American Roots music and lots of stuff never on CD taken from LPs and 78's. SQ is all over the place.Gave many to a friend that LOVES Chistmas songs but still have a few.
Now that I think about it, be glad to burn a few and mail free to any contributing AA member that emails me. Be a little late for THIS Christmas, but you'll be sitting pretty for Christmas Future.
Apart from that I really dig Willie Nelson's Pretty Paper, The Chieftains' Bells of Dublin and most all the classic tunes from the 40's-70's.
"Once this was all Black Plasma and Imagination"-Michael McClure
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Renaissance Christmas - early one I recorded live from FM.
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Then you should spring for the Boston Camerata's Medieval Christmas and Baroque Christmas. Superb performances very well recorded. You can buy all three in a boxed set for about $20.
Happy listening,
Jim
"The passage of my life is measured out in shirts."
- Brian Eno
I have one of those
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
Very nice -guys!
Last night's performance (and her last after 29 straight years)
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"Have you a water buffalo?"
anything loud and energetic, to brighten the spirits during the darkest period of the year.
Some early Led Zep does the trick, though I do like some Bach fugues straining the cones in my KLH5s.
Res ipsa loquitur...
The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the Women of the Atlanta Symphony Chorus, Robert Shaw, conductor.
NB, I think that the topmost image is the original cover, which I find more attractive than that on what I assume is a reissue.
And a close runner-up is Britten's "Ceremony of Carols." I prefer the RCA Philadelphia Benita Valente version. There's a new all-girl version I have not yet heard but comes highly recommended.
NB, the judge has declared Morten Lauridsen's "O Magnum Mysterium" to be hors-concours by virtue of the fact that while it might be Christmas music strictly speaking from a liturgical point of view, I can listen to it year round.
ATB,
jm
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