| CD 1. O holy night -- Ave Maria / Schubert -- In the bleak midwinter -- Coventry carol -- Away in a manger -- Gabriel's message -- Pastoral sinfonia : from Christmas oratorio / J.S. Bach -- Il s'en va loin de la terre (Shepherds' farewell) : from L'enfance du Christ / Berlioz -- Panis angelicus -- Schlafe, mein Liebster (Slumber aria) : from Christmas oratorio -- Wiegenlied (Lullaby) / Brahms -- O Jesu so meek / J.S. Bach -- While shepherds watched -- Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kommt (excerpt) / J.S. Bach -- Largo : from Lute concerto / Vivaldi -- Alma redemptoris Mater / Palestrina -- O magnum mysterium / Gabrieli -- Zastupnitse userdnaya (Zealous protectress) -- Iubi-Te-voi (I will love thee, O Lord) -- Once in royal David's city -- O Tannenbaum -- O little town of Bethlehem. | |
| CD 2. Stille Nacht (Silent night) -- Gloria in excelsis Deo -- Largo : from The four season, Winter / Vivaldi -- The first Nowell -- In dulci jubilo -- The three kings / Cornelius -- Es ist ein Ros entsprungen -- Still, still, still -- The crown of roses -- Largo pastorale : from "Christmas" concerto / Corelli -- The lamb / Tavener -- Balulalow : from A ceremony of carols / Britten -- Ave Maria / Bach, Gounod -- Mille cherubini in coro -- Laudate Dominum : from Vesperae solennes de confessore / Mozart -- The infant King (lullaby) -- Lullaby my Jesus / Warlock -- What child is this? (Greensleeves) -- Barcarolle : from The tales of Hoffmann / Offenbach -- See amid the winter's snow -- The blessed Son of God / Vaughan Williams -- It came upon the midnight clear -- White Christmas. It's just about the perfect antidote to mall Christmas muzak...wish I could figure out how to rid us of the columns, but no time. I am trying to take it very slow and easy for the holidays this year, and this is the res |
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
Christmas Adagio
Actually, this will be more, for me, like Christmas lentement (which I swear is used as a tempo in music, but I can't find a definition on the web. Think s-l-o-w-l-y, even langerous...). Anyway, I borrowed a fabulous new CD that came into my library:
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Oh lovely, the end got cut off..it said something like "and this is the result..." I wanted to mention the CD is from Decca, 2001. Here's the annotation from my library catalog: "Classical artists performing popular and classical Christmas music." The artists are like a who's who--Leontyne Price, St Martin's in the Fields, Neville Marinner. I wish I could figure a way to copy them from iTunes...but no, at least not now.
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