berry@zehntel.UUCP (12/14/83)
#N:zinfandel:8500017:000:735 zinfandel!steve Dec 8 16:57:00 1983 Off to the far side of my record shelf I have my handful of Christmas records, brought out once a year for about a month. I traditionally buy one or two more each year for greater variety and so that each year's addition serves as an aural reminder of that season in succeeding years. I also try to build an eclectic collection, spanning most every style... So, do you (yes, YOU) have any Christmas records, preference in Christmas music, theological considerations (well, actually, I'm not Christian, but somehow get wrapped up in this thing every year anyway), traditions relating to music, or favorite records you want to recommend? I'll add my list to any replies....... Merry holidays, Steve Nelson zehntel!zinfandel!steve
riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (12/15/83)
A wonderful Christmas album which I've been trying unsuccessfully to find
for years and which always gets heavy play on KUT's "Eklektikos" program
every December is called "Noel Sing We Clear". (I believe that the label
is something like "Front Hall Records" but I have no idea about the names
of the artists.) This is a record which should appeal to many different
tastes: I would recommend it equally to folkies, the classicaly inclined,
and of course any "net.nlang.celts" fanatics who may be reading this. The
album is a collection of little-known traditional Christmas music of the
British Isles with an emphasis on its pre-Christian roots. Included are
some songs you probably haven't heard as well as some alternate versions
of songs that you probably have heard. I am thinking, for instance, of
the unusual and rather pagan version of "The Holly and the Ivy" from the
album; it's almost enough to make one want to start a movement to "take
the Christ back out of Christmas" :-) !
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Prentiss Riddle
{ihnp4,seismo,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddleandrew@inmet.UUCP (12/18/83)
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inmet!andrew Dec 17 18:32:00 1983
Try "A Christmas Present" by James Reiman and William Wright (Rooster 109).
Delightful folk-bluegrass renditions of Christmas carols.
Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics ...{harpo|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrewemjej@uokvax.UUCP (12/22/83)
#R:zinfandel:8500017:uokvax:4000001:000:830 uokvax!emjej Dec 20 11:15:00 1983 By all means look into *Christemas In Anglia*, The Early Music Ensemble, on Nonesuch *English Medieval Carols and Christmas Music*, The New York Pro Musica, on Everest (it suffers from the technology of the time it was recorded, but the "Alma Redemptoris Mater" and "Ave Maria" on side one alone are sufficiently glorious to be worth it) *The Christmas Story*, The Waverly Consort, on Columbia There's another Nonesuch early Christmas music album that is out and is very good (their version of "Orientis Partibus" sounds like the asinus is stomping determinedly across Palestine, and you'd better not get in its way) but I don't recall title or artists--maybe *A Medieval Christmas*? It's particularly interesting for its readings in Hebrew and in Saxon. Let's hear from you pre-1650 music fans, James Jones
root@zehntel.UUCP (01/07/84)
#R:zinfandel:8500017:zinfandel:8500021:000:679 zinfandel!berry Jan 6 10:25:00 1984 Also try 'Psallite! A renaissance Christmas" by the local San Francisco a capella men's choir 'Chanticleer' (It's a pun). Available on sale now at Tower record (where I got it) or from Sine Qua Non, One Charles St., Providence RI 02904. It includes: Stolzer: O admirabile Commercium Handl: Canite tuba in Sion des Pres: O Virgo virginum des Pres: Ave Maria 15th c. English: Now make we joy Hail Mary full of grace Nowell Mouton: Quaeramus cum pastoribus di Lassus: Resonet in laudibus H. Praetorius: Joseph lieber, Joseph mein M. Praetorius: Psallite unigenito H. Praetorius: In dulci jubilo 16th c. Spanish: E la don don Verges Maria Riu riu chiu