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Oh Great Mystery

Mercedes Lackey — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 01:11:39 +0000

I cannot think of a better piece for December 25th than this, Morten Lauridsen’s O Magnum Mysterium. Lauridsen is the third of my trio of great modern choral composers, and I’ve linked him here before.

And something more for the Solstice

Mercedes Lackey — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:07:35 +0000

Transiberian Orchestra, Wizards In Winter.

Mercedes Lackey — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:04:29 +0000

Here’s a lovely, obscure Baroque piece. Francesco Manfredini’s Christmas Concerto

Brother Heinrich’s Christmas

Mercedes Lackey — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:56:24 +0000

Save twenty minutes for this. Like The Reluctant Dragon, Brother Heinrich’s Christmas is worth it. And in this case the recording is substantially better.

You won’t have heard this version before

Mercedes Lackey — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 08:09:50 +0000

Carol of the Bells for twelve cellos. And check out the rest of these videos, you’ll be amazed.

Happy Solstice

Mercedes Lackey — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:22:34 +0000

Aurora Awakes by John Mackey. Specifically written to celebrate the moment of year-turning when darkness becomes light.

Christmas in 1800

Mercedes Lackey — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 13:53:22 +0000

This will be something very unlike you’ve ever heard before. This is William Billing’s Shepherd’s Carol. I love how Billings gives the Master of the Inn a whap in the chops for refusing room.

Ah, The Fruit Cake….

Mercedes Lackey — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:08:39 +0000

We can’t be too serious here, now…

The Irish Rovers sing Miss Fogarty’s Christmas Cake.

I Lie, It’s a Three-Fer

Mercedes Lackey — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 11:13:39 +0000

Because, like last year, I simply can’t do just Christmas music, here are three beautiful pieces from his “Midwinter Songs” by Morten Lauridsen, one of my three favorite modern choral composers.

Lament for Pasiphae

Like Snow

She Tells Her Love While Half-Asleep

Today is a Two-fer

Mercedes Lackey — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 10:55:51 +0000

All right, ladies. If your man gives you slippers every year, tell him this year he’d better step up his game. In Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera “Christmas Eve”, the hero gives his girl slippers, all right…slippers he gets from the Tsarina, by taking a ride on the Devil’s back!

This isn’t the best recording in the world and dates from 1977, but it isn’t an opera you hear much. Here are the singers and orchestra of Indiana University performing “Christmas Eve.”