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Christmas has no doubt come!
Thank you for your Christmas Carols, my friend.

Would be very interested - I have a cd called 'Old Christmas Returned' if you would be interested.

A Medieval Christmas by the Boston Camerata, as I have written in this forum before, was much played on the Chicago Classical Radio station when it was new. There has never been anything like it. I was thrilled when this 1975 recording finally appeared on CD. If you like your holiday to reflect another, earlier age; a dark chapel candle it, smoke filled from swinging braziers, period instruments, chants and readings along with a variety of vocals solo & chorus.... this is it.

I would love a link! Thank you!

Link please thanks.

I'd love a link, please!

Please, can you send me the link?
Thanks in advance.

Please send the link. Thanks in advance

Would love a link. Thanks in advance.

This looks interesting. I would be interesting in receiving the links. Thank you!

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Links received. Thank you again! :)

Christmas Set Two


We Wish You A Merry Christmas
John Williams & the Boston Pops




Christmas Night: Carols of the Nativity
The Cambridge Singers



Palestrina: Mass
"Hodie Christus Natus Est"
Gabrieli Concort & Players

Christmas Music by Michael Praetorius
Westminster Cathedral Choir
The Parley of Instruments

Booklet images included

I'm interested in those links. Can you send them to me? Thanks!

Christmas Set Two, link please thanks.

Thanks for this collection Phideas!
'I'd love to listen to the 'Medieval Christmas' if you please!

Links received, thank you!

Link received.
Thank you very much.
Merry Christmas.

I'm interested in those links. Can you send them to me? Thanks to you

There you go...

I'm interested. Thank you!

Merry Christmas! I would love to hear... Can you send the links?

X-MAS SET THREE


Carols From Clare
Clare College Singers & Orchestra
John Rutter Conducting




Narada Christmas Collection Vol. 2
Various Artists






Bell Book and Candle
George Duning
(thank you Wildwood Park!)




The Collection:

1) Commonweath Christmas Overture by Malcolm Arnold
2-3) In Terra Pax by Gerald Finzi
4-6) Three Carol Anthems by Herbert Howells
7- Gift of the Magi (from Three Botticelli Pictures) by Respighi
8- Fantasia on Christmas Carols by Ralph Vaughan Williams

Many thanks for the fast link!

I'm expecting LOTS of chocolate for Christmas! ;-)

This is from Greece!

Christmas Set Four

The Lion In Winter
John Barry



Christmas Day In the Morning
The Cambridge Singers



To Drive The Cold Winter Away
Loreena McKennitt



Peter Warlock
10 Carols

The Collection:

1) Mr. Henry Baker’s Christmas from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Patrick Gowers
2) Christmas Eve by Arnold Bax
3) New Year Music by Gerald Finzi
4) For Unto Us A Child Is Born from The Messiah featuring The Cambridge Singers

Please send link for #4. Thanks for #1. Awesome. Love Rutter!

Link received, thanks!

X-MAS SET THREE & Four links please,Thank you.

Links for all sets please!! Thanks & Merry Christmas!

Caught up.

Awesome! Would like a link to set 4.

I'm interested, thanks :)

ALL SET PLEASE !!!!! Hurry Up ~ Thanks :)

I'll drop everything.

Oh no!
Don't drop everything!

Congratulations for your first image!

Id love some medieval christmas! Thanks!

I'd love links to all four sets when you have a moment. Many thanks in advance for sharing all of this!

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Thanks again, Phideas1--a great holiday treat!

WAO ! WAO ! WAO ! Links Received ! THANK YOU VERY MUCH ! :)

This is amazin! I'm also very interested! Thank you very much! ;)

Tis the season for amazing....

I'm interested in sets 3 & 4 Phideas! Many thanks!

Christmas Set Five

The Christmas cantata Hodie (This Day) was composed in 1953-4 and is dedicated to Herbert Howells. Of all the works of RVW old age no other is so serene in outlook, so other-worldly. It’s motto might be ‘peace and good will to men’. It begins with a brass fanfare (that will knock off your socks) as prelude to the full chorus’s cries of ‘Nowell!’

I was lucky to see a live performance that was mesmerizing. The double choirs and three soloists and full orchestra (with concert organ) were stunning.



At this time of year when the darkness comes early and closes in tight we need light… and nothing is more remarkable than Illumina recorded in the beautiful Lady Chapel of Ely Cathedral featuring The Clare Choir directed by Timothy Brown.

Eighteen tracks that proclaim ‘And God said, Let there be light.’

Featuring brilliant music for voice that ranges from such composers as Thomas Tallis, John Rutter, Gustav Holst, Hildegard of Bingen to Gyorgy Ligeti: his ‘Lux aeterna’ used in the film classic 2001: A Space Odyssey.



‘But to me, heard afar
it was starry music,
angel’s song, comforting
as the comfort of Christ
when he spake tenderly
to his sorrowful flock;
the old words came to me
by the riches of time,
mellow’d and transfigured
as I stood on the hill.
Heark’ning in the aspect
Of eternal silence”
And on earth peace, good will toward men.’

-from Gerald Finzi’s In Terra Pax



As always, leave a message here if interested.

Oh, I'd love to hear the Addinsell Christmas Carol. How wonderful! Thank you and Merry Christmas!

Your taste in music is excellent, Phidea.
After all it's physiological, since you carry a Greek name.

Your thread is superlative!

I KEEP telling people THAT but no one BELIEVES me!!! ;-)

Would like to hear the medieval one plz and thx

I am interesting in these. Thank you.

Just received your link and just to say Thank You again, I thought I'd give you the link to this one. It's the 1970s DG Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops "White Christmas" collection, very similar to the (not quite as good, I don't think) Boston Pops collections that John Williams did. Haven't seen it here before and I don't even know if the album still exists. It's flac and there's no password:

https://mega.co.nz/#!AIImxZwR!LTRbMfx1KdXJk-JtG7kxfg8JooPWhHYF5L_jsFP2tUw

I'll upload the covers tomorrow and maybe start a new thread, if you'd prefer, or you could even include it in one of your sets if you want.

Edit: covers here:
https://mega.co.nz/#!wFZnGYIZ!A-AQfF3gfiLViPRJD1Y70aifBM1RyYulxzoRKGPRxps

Thank you for the treat!

The John Williams/Boston Pops recording has been valued over the years for its medley of Christmas carols by Alfred Burt. I have never heard of this composer and these carols have never played (to my ear) on the radio. 'A Christmas Greeting' was originally written as Christmas cards to the composer's family and friends. This suite shifts smoothly from one to the other without a break... and the standout is the tender and moving 'Some Children See Him'....

All in all a lovely disc that was produced by the late George Korngold in 1980... when the world was young.

Christmas Set Five, link please thanks.

I'm interested in all the music sets, could it be possible to share them with me?

Thank you in advance!

Wow, great collection. I am very interested in your Christmas music, especially the old English stuff :-)

TeddyV, thank you for
"Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops - White Christmas (1976) (DG 1986) [FLAC]".
Here are the covers:
http://www.discogs.com/viewimages?release=3023983

thanks for the medieval links. grat collection and sounds wonderful

Phideas = quality!

I Want It!!

Maybe if you ask nicely. Just a thought.....

May I please have the link and Merry Christmas to you :)

If still available, could I get the link please?

The Bishop's Wife
by Hugo Friedhofer

Possibly the BEST Christmas film.
From a story by Robert Nathan (Portrait of Jennie)
and directed by the remarkable Henry Koster.

Atmospheric, beautiful black & white photography, a lovely fantasy, romantic, deeply touching and so very funny- with a marvelous score.

(special thanks to Wildwood Park & Petros)



Leave your requests here.

Links received. Thank you very much for them Phedias1 :) Hugs Silk40dd

Welcome.

Link please thanks.

Dear Phideas, could you be so kind to send these links?

Set two, three, four, five
Bishop's wife

Many thanks in advance and all the best for the Holidays!

Got them.
It's very kind of you.
Thanks again and Merry Christmas!

Links received, thank you very much! Merry Christmas!!!

Hi!

Can you send "The Bishop's Wife" please.

Link received, thanks!

Ho ho Ho

Benjamin Britten
Choral Music from Kings College, Cambridge
Sir David Willcocks
Philip Leger

A Ceremony of Carols

This is always a Live Performance from England (repeated later for those not inclined to enjoy the time shift) broadcast over the radio. While Britten is not my favorite British composer (he and Finzi never hit it off) these holiday music offerings are very amiable.

1) A Ceremony of Carols Op. 28 for treble voices and harp
13) Hymn to Saint Cecila Op. 27 for chorus
14) Rejoice in the lamb Op. 30 Festival Cantata

I love this work. Had the lp in college but it took forever for this recording to appear on compact disc due to a copyright issue with the author of the words; who was a nut case in an asylum when he wrote them. It is charming, with music that speaks:

“For I shall consider my cat Jeoffrey…
for he is a servant of the living God…
for I am possessed of a cat, surprising in beauty,
from whom I take occasion to bless Almighty God."

This is followed by some Disney-eque stuff about a mouse that is great fun.

15) Te Deum in C
16) Jubilate in Deo
17) Missa Brevis in D for boys’ voice and chorus.

Entire booklet is enclosed.

Leave message here if interested.

Link received.
Thank you so much, Phideas!

Good morning,

I am very interested in the Christmas Set Two, Three, Four and Five and the Benjamin Britten
Choral Music from Kings College, Cambridge, thank you very much.

I wish you a Merry Christmas to you and your family.

Daniel.

Edit:

Thank you very much for all the links you sent me :)

A Ceremony of Carols link please thanks.

Interested in The Bishop's Wife and A Ceremony of Carols! Many Thanks ~ Merry Christmas!

Yes please! Thanks in advance, and Merry Christmas!

If you're desperate enough to be here over Christmas, I'd like to celebrate with nos. 1, 4 & 5, as well as the Britten, please!

Not desperate at... enjoy the holiday evening.

Absolutely, yule tide, yule tide.

Phedias1, could you send me below these 3 download links, thanks you :)

*Christmas Set Five , The Bishop's Wife , Benjamin Britten

Not desperate at... enjoy the holiday evening.

A little late for that now but many thanks!

May I please have the links for all 5 sets? These sound really interesting. Thanks!

If possible could I get a link for The Bishops Wife. Thank you.

Will see if the links are still active...

Phideas1,

Any chance for links of Bishops Wife (and if possible the other Christmas sets)?

Received a PM from you on 01/01 with links; however reallife prevented me from clicking on links til today 01/10.

Alas, all were dead.

Thanks,
srupert

They all sound great please, thanks

X-mas is over.

The link would be great

please! give link on all set!!!

Sorry, new thread!
Here---Thread 197852

I happened upon this thread and wondered, "any chance that any of these links still exist?" If so please send since we are in the midst of another Christmas season for a little longer.

Yes yes yes PLEASE, if possible; I adore Christmas music.