This song you may well not be too familiar with – so here is an English translation of the words.
Winter
Cantique de Noël
There are a lot of musicians who are finding the restrictions placed on them by the pandemic very difficult. It doesn’t take long searching the www to find many of them performing in empty, or near empty, concert halls for their online listeners.
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.
A Christmas Symphony
Today’s choice includes a number of traditional carols and I am reasonably sure that you won’t have any trouble identifying them 😃
Perhaps a “Marmite” Choice
A few months ago I shared Jacob Collier’s version of “Moon River”. Today’s share is another of his creations – it comes from a few years earlier and features ‘only’ ten versions of himself rather than the 80 or so that appeared in Moon River.
An Event Not Happening
Like Salvation Army bands everywhere December in any other year would have been busy for us playing carols and Christmas music in many different settings.
A Christmas Tale In Music
A few times before I have suggested that it was a case of “now for something completely different” in these daily music shares – well today it really is!!
What Sweeter Music Indeed
Tonight I bow to what seems inevitable at Christmas and share something from John Rutter.
Brass At Last!
Two weeks in and no seasonal Brass music 😱. I’m correcting that omission today with a clip of the Canadian Brass – 1999 version – the lineup has changed over the years and everyone will have their own favourite era – I personally don’t think this one has been bettered! Lots of good Christmas music – and some tubular bells as well.
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