Music for Advent and Christmas

[Jo498]

What's on "Christmas in the Holy Land"?

And the Monteverdi contains probably pieces from Selva Morale e spirituale?

[aligreto]

And the Monteverdi contains probably pieces from Selva Morale e spirituale?

Yes, just a small amount.

[aligreto]

[ZauberdrachenNr.7]

...I wonder how many of the classical discs I get used were left behind by elderly people who passed away or had to move to a nursing home with restricted space for discs.

That used not to be true for the Z7 Collection, but now more than half of what I buy is used and from the elderly (or departed) or radio copies and sometimes from musicians, the result of a convergence of the times (decline of CD), popularity of the shops where I most often buy disks, and an aging population.  I wish those little notes were de rigueur in every used CD I bought.  I've been jettisoning books in anticipation of a move (so far, CDs are unscathed) - so feel something of what their original owners may have felt in 'having to abandon their loved ones.' 

[Jo498]

As I usually get the used discs from "anonymous" online re-sellers, I hardly encounter their former owners directly. In former times I bought a lot on Ebay and many of those sellers were just weeding out and still alive but sometimes also selling grandpa's stuff. One can often get the best bargains when clueless heirs sell classical CDs. (That's basically the business model of the used vendors: They buy stuff very cheap en gros and re-sell it still much cheaper than new discs would be.) I got discs where former owners have glued clipped magazine reviews into the booklet, or wrote little marginalia with pencil next to tracklists etc.

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Charpentier: Messe de Minuit....

[SimonNZ]

and, wait, how could I forget this?:



I'm going to try and make sure I play that one on the 25th

[aligreto]

Every year, without fail, I give this one a listen....

[Florestan]

[kishnevi]

Almost forgot I had this one
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[Mookalafalas]

started playing this.  Very family friendly--mixes in lots of recognizable songs and arrangements.  I can play it with the wife and kids without them looking unduly put out.

[aligreto]

Vivaldi: Violin Concerto RV 270 "Il riposo - per il Natale" from this set....

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Alessandro Scarlatti: Cantata per la Notte di Natale....

[aligreto]

For Christmas morning....

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JS Bach: the celebratory Cantata BWV 63 [for Christmas Day]....

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JS Bach: Christmas Oratorio Part 1....

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Telemann: two Cantatas for Christmas Day....

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JS Bach: Chorales for Christmas [BWV 603-612] from Orgelbuchlein....

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JS Bach: Cantata BWV 40 [for the second day of Christmas]....