Music for Advent and Christmas

[pjme]

i doubt the libretto is available online. I have the cd and will try to give more info/ synopsis.

Peter

[VonStupp]

My mom passed away earlier this week, so it has been tough to listen to music. She wanted to hear some Christmas music while in the hospital last week, so I broke out some recordings I hadn't heard in a while. The playing style of British brass bands is not a sound I particularly like, but it doesn't bother me as much in these Huddersfield recordings.

On the other hand, Sir Colin Davis' A Festival of Christmas Carols has easily become a new favorite of mine.
VS

[ChamberNut]

My mom passed away earlier this week, so it has been tough to listen to music.

My sincere condolences for your loss.

[ritter]

My mom passed away earlier this week, so it has been tough to listen to music. She wanted to hear some Christmas music while in the hospital last week, so I broke out some recordings I hadn't heard in a while. ...

Receive my warmest condolences, VonStupp.

Un abrazo,

ritter

[Florestan]

My mom passed away earlier this week

My sincerest condolences to you and your family.

[VonStupp]

Thank you everyone for your well-wishes! I appreciate the thoughts you have sent my way.
VS

[Papy Oli]

Really sorry for your loss @VonStupp . My condolences to you and your family.

[pjme]

A lovely old Norwegian song.... Arve Moen Bergset is now violinist at the Oslo PhO

https://ofo.no/en/musicians/1-violin/arve-moen-bergset

The hymn has a checkered history...

Hans Adolph Brorson's lyrics were first published in "Nogle Jule-Psalmer" in 1732 and reworked by Grundtvig in 1837. The lyrics used today are often a mix of the two versions, and the song is known as "Forunderligt at sige" as well as under its original title.
The originally melody used by Brorson was that of a traditional French hymn, but later music by Emil Hartmann (1860) and Christian Barnekow (1864) was used. The music known and used today was composed by Carl Nielsen in 1914 and first published in "Salmer og aandelige Sange" in 1919.

I don't know what is sung in both versions....

[pjme]

Willem Pijper arranged/harmonised 8 French noëls (ca 1919) . Ameling is -as usual- excellent.

[Karl Henning]

Oh, I believe I may tune in to this:

[Kalevala]

Oh, I believe I may tune in to this:

I always enjoy listening to those. 

K

[Karl Henning]

I always enjoy listening to those. 

K

The added bonus to me is, I know and have worked with some of the singers.

[Kalevala]

The added bonus to me is, I know and have worked with some of the singers.

My goof!  I was thinking of "A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" from King's College.    I haven't heard/watched the other before....Sorry!  I had thought that the time for the broadcast was off, but it had been a busy day today here.  Apologies!  I'll put it on my computer calendar, but I am not certain whether or not I'll be able to watch it.

K

[Karl Henning]

My goof!  I was thinking of "A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols" from King's College.    I haven't heard/watched the other before....Sorry!  I had thought that the time for the broadcast was off, but it had been a busy day today here.  Apologies!  I'll put it on my computer calendar, but I am not certain whether or not I'll be able to watch it.

K

It's an easy goof enow: King's Chapel VS. King's College!

[Kalevala]

It's an easy goof enow: King's Chapel VS. King's College!

You're too kind! 

K

[Karl Henning]

You're too kind! 

K

My PT's business is named Symmetry Sports, and at our last session I made a present to him of the revelation that it's an anagram for Mystery Tromps. Well, I've spun off the highway, haven't I?

[Kalevala]

My PT's business is named Symmetry Sports, and at our last session I made a present to him of the revelation that it's an anagram for Mystery Tromps. Well, I've spun off the highway, haven't I?

No, you're just very clever/smart! 

K

[Florestan]

My PT's business is named Symmetry Sports, and at our last session I made a present to him of the revelation that it's an anagram for Mystery Tromps. Well, I've spun off the highway, haven't I?

Actually, you missed an "s". There are three in the original and only two in the anagram. 

[pjme]

I'm all set for this

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0026d1r

A celebration of Christmas from the stunning candlelit Chapel of King's College, Cambridge. This year marks the seventieth anniversary of the first carol service being broadcast. Led by the Dean, the Revd Dr Stephen Cherry, the programme begins in the time-honoured way as a solo chorister sings the first verse of Once in Royal David's City, just as it did in 1954.

Music includes Henry Walford Davies's setting of O Little Town of Bethlehem, Edvard Grieg's Ave Maris Stella, and Nativity Carol by John Rutter. The story of the Nativity is read by members of King's College in the words of the King James Bible and in poems by Christina Rossetti, Edwin Muir, and G K Chesterton. Congregational carols include O Come All Ye Faithful, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear and Hark! The Herald Angels Sing.


Release date:24 December 2024
1 hour, 13 minutes

[Karl Henning]

Actually, you missed an "s". There are three in the original and only two in the anagram. 

Thanks for the corrigendum! Oops!