Music for Advent and Christmas

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Bax: Winter Legends

[listener]

The Goons!  I'm Walking Backwards for Christmans (to Show that I Love You)

[Tapio Dimitriyevich Shostakovich]

My annual choice - In good tradition.

[Christo]

Good idea. Ordered it immediately. 

My annual choice - In good tradition.

My ultimate Christmas cd for a couple of years already.  The only wish left open being a recording of the perhaps even finer orchestral version of On Christmas Night that can be heard and seen in this Maastricht performance, from last year: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uNexM9PlCI

[Taxes-]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs

[cjvinthechair]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs

Mmm - nice surprise, thank you !

[cjvinthechair]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yR94CiqtFLs

Many thanks for that - introduced me to a 'live' channel I was quite unaware of. Happy Christmas !

[KeithW]

It feels far enough into December to dig out two box sets that arrived this year:

This one actually arrived in early January (I had hoped it would be here in time for Christmas 2011)

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I bought this one along with a number of other Deller boxes released to mark his centenary:

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[flyingdutchman]

The BBC Magazine's Christmas issue has a wonderful free disc on offer this time around.

[S.Blake]

My favorite is Christmas Gift For You From Phil Spector - Various artists. I have this for years now and I still enjoy listening to it every year.

-Blake
http://www.isochronictonesdownload.com

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For traditional Christmas music with a twist of Bernstein:

[Christo]

Still my favourite Christmas music of the past two years, live from Maastricht (in this orchestral version the piece is still waiting for a recording!)
http://www.youtube.com/v/8uNexM9PlCI http://www.youtube.com/v/Xvclx0hC_Qc http://www.youtube.com/v/dywbkWa-KaM and as an encore http://www.youtube.com/v/jXZUHbADnT0

[froghawk]

Has anyone mentioned George Crumb's contribution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft7nA4jaomU

[Christo]

Has anyone mentioned George Crumb's contribution?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft7nA4jaomU

Not yet. 

[Wakefield]

As the next Sunday is the first Sunday of Advent, I think we are exactly on time to begin this thread.

All musical periods, styles, genres and composers are welcomed.

To start a recent find:

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To all those searching for a top notch version of this work, Peter Dijkstra and his group should be an option to consider.

http://www.youtube.com/v/BRT-89XqPhw
(Available on DVD)

The unusual 4-CD set is explained because it includes a long and detailed discussion of this oratorio (in German). 

[North Star]

Britten: A Boy is Born, A Ceremony of Carols

Schütz's Christmas Oratorio will be performed here on the 19th.

[Wakefield]

Britten: A Boy is Born, A Ceremony of Carols

Few days ago, I listened to for the first time these works (plus "Rejoice in the Lamb").

It was a fantastic experience (Stephen Cleobury, King's College Choir et al.).

All of them are lovely works. 

[kishnevi]

More Bach:
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And this 2-for-1 reissue contains the motet and mass Hodie Christus natus est
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as does this volume from the ongoing cycle by The Sixteen/Harry Christophers
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of which the most recent issue is also Christmas focused
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[Mandryka]

for the Canonic Variations
for the Bach/Stravinsky

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Stockhausen:
Sonntag aus LICHT (the day of union)
Montag aus LICHT (the day of birth)
Breathing Gives Life (choral opera)
Amour, 5 pieces for clarinet
Inori, adorations for 1 or 2 soloists and orchestra
Menschen, hört (vocal sextet)
Musik Im Bauch for 6 percussionists & music boxes
Tierkreis (version for music boxes)
Sirius, music-theatre (winter version)

Zzzzzzz.....