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Glad
and sorry you brought this up....it stirs a lot of emotion about the
"pap" that's passed off as "Christmas" music
here
are a few of my personal favorites .......
- Praetorius "Christmette" ... Paul McCreesh and the Gabriellie
Consort
- Charpentier "In Nativitatem Dominin Canticum" with William
Christie
- Heinrish Schutz "Weihnachtshistorie" with Howard Arman
- Bach
"Weihnachtsoratorium" with Harnoncourt
- Can't
find my copy of McCreesh's recent CD (a few years old now ) of
Gabriellie's Venetian Christmas Music .... exact title escapes
me.
- The
Chieftains " The Bells of Dublin" with Burgess Meredith et al
- Charlie Browns Christmas with the late Vince Guaraldi and his Trio
- Cant forget Sir David Wilcock's Christmas
Carols from King's College Cambridge
- And if you can find it........while not
music per say .....Dylan Thomas reading "a Childs Christmas in
Wales"
Yes
there is lot of junk out there but there is also a wonderful assortment of "good
music" unfortunately all we hear in the malls etc, is the inferior
stuff.
Saw
the Tallis Scholars Christmas Concert on Saturday night last .......now there's
music that puts you in the mood.
Larry
B.C.
Okay okay it's my annual
appeal. It's Mandatory Non-Stop Christmas Music Time, at home and around town.
Don't get me wrong, I ain't the
Grinch. I just have sensitive ears and sensibilities, and most of what they're
aiming at me sounds like Christmas Fingernails on a Christmas
Blackboard.
At home, there's one loophole: If I
can bring in my own CDs of Real Genuine Certified Christmas Music, I can play
it on the stereo, and everybody's happy.
I know there's Christmas Stuff out
there with beautiful compositions, beautiful artistry, beautiful voices. What
are your favorites? What do you like? What do you recommend? If GG ever
strayed into Yule, it can certainly be stuff by Gould, that would be
great!
Elmer
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