Good Christmas music

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: JedMarum
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 01:36 AM

One of my very favorites is our own Seamus Kennedy's Christmas album. A nice mix of songs and sounds ... It's been on our CD player quite a bit the last few weeks.

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 26 Dec 03 - 12:53 AM

I found a double CD a few years ago called The Greatest Christmas Show On Earth with operatic and orchestral performances. It's put out by London and includes Placido Domingo, Kiri Te Kanawa, Luciano Pavarotti, Leontyne Price, Joan Sutherland, and many others. It is simply exquisite.

I found a link to it, after searching the discography for Domingo at the Decca Records site, but they call this "the World's Greatest Christmas Album." Not sure why the name change, but it appears to be the same album. link (For some reason this listing shows 4 sides, when in fact it simply lists the contents of each CD two times.)

SRS

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: GUEST
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 08:44 PM

Please daddy don't get drunk this Christmas John Dever

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: jaze
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 07:51 PM

I have 2 Christmas lps by John Fahey. Just the carols done in beautiful acoustic guitar. Very mellow and tastefully done.

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: pdq
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 07:37 PM

David Grisman's Christmas album, recorded in the 80's, recently came out on CD. I have the vinyl vesion and it is great. Even a little bit of sax work to keep jazz fans happy.

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: Emma B
Date: 25 Dec 03 - 07:07 PM

Ended the day a couple of minutes ago listening to a recording of the South Yorkshire Carols from the Blue Ball in Worrall.
Hail Smiling Morn! Happy St. Stephens Day everyone

Subject: RE: Good Christmas music
From: Jerry Rasmussen
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 09:16 PM

Hey, Rangersteve!

Merry Christmas. My favorite Christmas music comes from widely different sources. I have a CD I put together of a Rhythm and Blues Christmas that my wife and I really love. Last year, I picked up a CD titled A Mandolin Christmas which I think any folkie would love. It's on Unison Music and is an instrumental album with mandolin, guitar, viola, harmonica acoustic bass and drums. The album is done basically by one person: John Darnall. He multitracks all the parts.
Joy to the World is as Joyful as I've ever heard it, with mandolin and guitar exchanging licks, cutting each as surely as the dueling banjos in Deliverance... Great, great stuff.

The third CD I've been listening to this Christmas is actually a mandolin concerto with mandolin, violin, viola and lute. The compositions were by Giuliani in the early 1800s. I first found the music on a Vox lp back in the early 60's. I've tried to replace it with a CD ever since CDs first came out and couldn't find it anywhere. I just found a recording, finally, recorded in Brussels, and released in France. It was worth the wait.

Jerry

Subject: Good Christmas music
From: RangerSteve
Date: 24 Dec 03 - 08:42 PM

Since I started a thread about bad Christmas music, I thought I'd start one about good music. Especially since I heard some extraordinary music today. My roommate dug up an old cassette tape he had, recorded from someone else's record, so there's no song listings or artists, but everyone seemed to be operatic, or close to it. The first song (and I don't know the title) was unmistakably by Dennis Day. Dennis Day could sing Blue Christmas, Dominic the Donkey, and Lord knows what other crap and I'd look forward to it.

So, how about recommending some good Christmas music?