Classical Music for Christmas

[seeline]

the cover art looks like it's pre-Raphaelite...

[A Lark Ascending]

the cover art looks like it's pre-Raphaelite...

Yes, Hyperion know their stuff and would have chosen carefully. I don't know a great deal about Boughton but suspect he was part of that world (or the early 20thC version).

Edited December 6, 2013 by A Lark Ascending

[David Ayers]

Been enjoying Britten's A Boy is Born on this BBC CD from ten years ago. It also includes Respighi's L'Adorazione dei Magi and Honegger's Une Cantate de Nöel.

[David Ayers]

Re. Honegger's politics there's this http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/29/arts/music/29chant.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

[A Lark Ascending]

Been enjoying Britten's A Boy is Born on this BBC CD from ten years ago. It also includes Respighi's L'Adorazione dei Magi and Honegger's Une Cantate de Nöel.

Try listening to 'A Boy Was Born' after midnight in Christmas week. The way those voices just seem to weightlessly lift and freely intermingle is positively spooky.

Enjoying another Britten disc for this time of year:

[John Litweiler]

Berlioz:L'Enfance du Christ - especially the trio for 2 flutes and harp, one of my very favorite pieces. The 2-CD album I have seems to be OOP. It's Charles Munch / Boston Symphony and includes Les nuits d'ete by Leontyne Price w. Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony.

[A Lark Ascending]

Another beautiful one. Not recommended for the office Xmas party.