St. Olaf Choirs - Christmas in Norway
King's Singers Christmas
Lessons and Carols From King's College Cambridge
2018
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hCGvwLKNC0
2015
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdL4Ct_ogWdhWqI9S5XqapgHDZSZxu5Tt
Trinity College Chapel - 2019 Advent Carol Service
I will be posting some excellent full-length performances of Christmas choral music from the finest choirs around.
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Concert 8 of 8 COMPETE. Tonight was two abbreviated programs an hour apart, double-seating in a small but very beautiful venue.
I am spent. Done. Only thing left this week is leading an all-school sing along with several hundred of my closest little friends.
Drinking a high ABV brew, and then off to bed.
Concert time yet again. (Number 6 of 8 tonight)
I hate wearing a tuxedo. Especially the damn cummerbund.
My fellow pianists here will appreciate this. On my second accompanist gig of the week, and fortunately nothing on this list applies.
#cosomusic
#cosoclassical
#musictheory
This, IMHO, is what every local choir _should_ perform every Christmas season, instead of the out-of-place Hallelujah Chorus.
I performed this on my first choir concert as a college freshman, and I have loved it since then.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Recitative "When Jesus our Lord"
Trio "Say, Where is He born"
Chorus "There shall a star"
from the unfinished oratorio "Christus"
Recorded by Westminster Choir College
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3FB16egV9c
Concert mode, activate.
#cosomusic
#cosoclassical
#cosochoral
Stop what you're doing, and listen to this. If you aren't emotionally moved by the time you're 3 minutes in, then you are made of stone.
This is a choir I will be following closely.
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Tuks Camerata - Indodana (Traditional IsiXhosa Arr. Michael Barrett and Ralf Schmitt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0_JCw9cvFw
People who have performed the Handel Messiah will appreciate this.
#cosomusic
#cosoclassical
#cosochoral
I am convinced that most modern Christmas arrangements for orchestra and chorus are written by people who don't give a flying F about the chorus parts. The high tessituras are almost as painful as the horrible counterpoint.
This is still one of the most satisfying pieces I've ever played, as much as it kicked my ass to learn it. Please read the description for details.
Sergei Prokofiev - Piano Sonata No. 6
Sviatoslav Richter - 1960 (Live in Carnegie Hall)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFCeeLXdSQs
Gaetano Donizetti - Una furtiva lagrima (from L'elesir D'amore)
Jaume Aragall
Chopin - Ballade No. 1 in G minor, Op. 23
Maurizio Pollini
Musician | Teacher | Nerd
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