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 😃
Choral
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.
One That All Know
As I said in the previous post, this year’s Corps Carol Service will be a “virtual” one – you can watch it from 6pm on the Boscombe Corps YouTube Channel.
Still Mysterious
Last Friday it was a setting of O Magnum Mysterium written around 450 years ago – today, one that is around 25 yrs old.
What Sweeter Music Indeed
Tonight I bow to what seems inevitable at Christmas and share something from John Rutter.
A Calming Down After Yesterday
This is a text that has been set by many composers through the years – this is one of the older ones, sublimely sung by The Sixteen