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Post by Hold the Mayo on Dec 24, 2022 6:03:53 GMT
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 24, 2022 16:35:22 GMT
But you know, in spite of everything else, I don't consider the Christmas season as officially underway until I hear this on the radio. Playing my copy of it whenever I wish doesn't count.  Sepiatone |
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Post by ando on Dec 24, 2022 19:11:36 GMT
But you know, in spite of everything else, I don't consider the Christmas season as officially underway until I hear this on the radio. Playing my copy of it whenever I wish doesn't count. Sepiatone  The whole album.  |
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Post by ando on Dec 24, 2022 19:19:22 GMT
J.S. Bach's Christmas Oratorio, wonderful as it is, usually puts me to sleep. This is one of the most spirited that I've heard. Making my afternoon... in addition to all the Christmas greeting.  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 24, 2022 21:37:42 GMT
But you know, in spite of everything else, I don't consider the Christmas season as officially underway until I hear this on the radio. Playing my copy of it whenever I wish doesn't count. Sepiatone Lots of great recordings of "The Christmas Song", but I must say my favorite way to hear it is from The Velvet Fog, the co-writer, himself. |
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Post by I Love Melvin on Dec 24, 2022 21:58:53 GMT
For me, Christmas Eve is always set aside for Mahalia Jackson and Marian Williams. Marian wasn't as well-known as Mahalia; she had a spottier recording career but was a Kennedy Center honoree in 1993 before her death.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 24, 2022 22:46:29 GMT
And let us not forget the dreamy Nutcracker Suite. My favorite is from 1957: Tchaikovsky, Viennese Symphonic Orchestra Conducted By Kurt Woess. Side 2 is the 1812 Festival Overture - a very strange pairing for the holidays.  |
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Post by BunnyWhit on Dec 25, 2022 1:54:21 GMT
I very much enjoy the Telemann concertos for Christmas Eve.
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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Post by Hold the Mayo on Dec 25, 2022 21:53:49 GMT
Merry Christmas to one and all.
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 26, 2022 1:02:02 GMT
Joyeux Noël
The "Huron Carol" (or "Twas in the Moon of Wintertime") is a Canadian Christmas hymn (Canada's oldest Christmas song), written probably in 1642 by Jean de Brébeuf, a Jesuit missionary at Sainte-Marie among the Hurons in Canada.
Loreena McKennitt - Let Us the Infant Greet
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Post by ando on Dec 26, 2022 2:47:52 GMT
Merry Christmas to one and all.
A brisk Tchaikovsky Concerto no. 1 in B flat minor op 23
Israel Philharmonic
Alexandre Moutouzkine, piano
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Post by jinsinna13 on Dec 26, 2022 15:11:24 GMT
In an alt rock mood today.
"Black Hole Sun" by Soundgarden
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Post by sepiatone on Dec 26, 2022 17:30:31 GMT
And let us not forget the dreamy Nutcracker Suite. My favorite is from 1957: Tchaikovsky, Viennese Symphonic Orchestra Conducted By Kurt Woess. Side 2 is the 1812 Festival Overture - a very strange pairing for the holidays. You do know that his celebrated Nutcracker Ballet and subsequent Suite was NOT all that well liked by the composer himself, right? He really hated it. And by the way..... I've mentioned this group and their first(of only two) LP before, and my dismay at it never having a CD reissue and my 51 year old vinyl LP sounds the worse for wear. But my 2nd daughter looked it up and hunted around You Tube and collected the clips of all the songs from both their first AND second albums and compiled them all on two CDs as a Christmas present for me. I've been burning my stereo ever since. Merry Christmas indeed. Sepiatone |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 27, 2022 1:59:35 GMT
You do know that his celebrated Nutcracker Ballet and subsequent Suite was NOT all that well liked by the composer himself, right? He really hated it. And by the way..... I've mentioned this group and their first(of only two) LP before, and my dismay at it never having a CD reissue and my 51 year old vinyl LP sounds the worse for wear. Not just the composer - it was a flop when first performed, for the most part. One critic complained that the ballet was in bad taste because characters in Act 2 looked like food from a pastry shop. The Czar liked it at any rate. I am starting to wonder if the best place to look for gold isn't in the flotsam and jetsam piles. Exhibit 2 - Ratchell. |
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Post by galacticgirrrl on Dec 27, 2022 2:03:30 GMT
I love my albums...
Boy it was a big one for sure
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