This is perhaps my favourite Christmas song – written by Michael Praetorius and arranged here by Jan Sandström
Choral
For Good Friday – A Requiem
For Good Friday – a Requiem. My first choice would be Fauré – but I have shared that before so tonight it is Mozart.
More Bach For Easter
It turns out that the composer who, perhaps surprisingly, has the most entries in my playlist over the last months is the person who is getting another bit of publicity tonight.
An African Mass
Within my record collection there are a few that might qualify as “surprises” – this is one of those.
A Farewell
Some lovely music from L’Enfance du Christ by Hector Berlioz – this performance is slower than the tempo marking – and one of the slowest I could find on YouTube! – but I think that is a good idea for this song 😃
More Bach
Having started Christmas Day with the opening chorus of Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorium, “Jauchzet, frohlocket!” I was going to bookend it with the final chorus today – but having searched for a suitable video I decided that you should have a bigger slice of Bach.
Welcome Christmas
and after the proclamation from John Tavener what better than Bach to welcome the day. From the Christmas Oratorio :
Into Christmas
Music to go into Christmas Day – again I’ve chosen something a little less well known.
A Frosty Christmas Eve
Seems like a good time to wish everyone a Happy Christmas – within whatever restrictions that you find yourselves at the moment. I think that most people will find Christmas 2020 to be rather different from any previous year!
Christmas Fantasia
Our School had its major concert of the year at Christmas. Although the programme was not entirely Christmas themed I did get to play and sing a lot of seasonal music.