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[F_MINOR] FW: [F_MINOR] OT: Help! Anybody got any GOOD Xmas music?



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.
-----Original Message-----
From: F_Minor [mailto:F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU]On Behalf Of Elmer Elevator
Sent: Friday, December 12, 2003 5:19 PM
To: F_MINOR@EMAIL.RUTGERS.EDU
Subject: [F_MINOR] OT: Help! Anybody got any GOOD Xmas music?

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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