Music post: Christmas, obscure and/or odd
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resonantThese lists get longer as they get more obscure. I know I'm not going to be able to stop here.
While I'm offering music, maybe some of you could supply me with one of these:
- A good choral performance of the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "O Sanctissima"
- A good choral performance of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella." English, French, I'm not picky.
- A carol called "Corpus Christi Carol," but not the Jeff Buckley one. It begins "The hen flew east and the hen flew west," and it was played on "Thistle and Shamrock" a long time ago.
- Any nice simple solo performance of "Jesus Christ, The Apple Tree" (thanks, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
geoviki!)
- Anything from that Jethro Tull Christmas CD (thanks, barkley!)
Robert Shaw Chamber Singers: Hacia Belen Va Un Borrico, from "Songs of Angels." A capella choir with a wonderfully juicy baritone solo.
Waverly Consort: This Endris Night, from "A Waverly Consort Christmas." Male and female soloists with Renaissance instruments. I think what I like best about this is how Jesus is a baby, but not quite a baby; he tells Mary how to treat him: "And if I weep and may not sleep, thou sing'st, Bye bye, lullay."
Boston Camerata: Joseph Est Bien Marie, from "Xmas." Choir and Renaissance orchestra, with everything I love about Renaisssance music.
Maddy Prior and the Carnival band, Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ, from "Carols and Capers." A sweet song with Scots dialect. "And were the world ten times sae wide, clad all wi' gold and stains o' pride, unworthy yet it were tae thee under thy feet an stool to be."
Bruce Cockburn, Down In Yon Forest from "Christmas." A lot of y'all seem to have Jeff Buckley's "Corpus Christi Carol" -- this is in a similar vein, mixing Arthurian and Christian imagery in a similarly creepy way.
(And by the way, if anyone has a different tune, also called "Corpus Christi Carol," that was aired on "Thistle and Shamrock" one year -- it begins, "The hen flew east and the hen flew west" -- please please share it with me; I've been looking for it for years.)
Christmas Revels, Brightest and Best from "Christmas Day in the Morning." Female soloist with a capella choir. I think this is originally a shapenote carol, though it's not being performed that way here; it has that sort of haunting oddness.
Mike and Peggy Seeger, Joseph and Mary, from "American Folk Songs for Christmas," and Baltimore Consort, The Cherry Tree Carol, from "Bright Day Star." This is essentially the same story -- Mary asks Joseph to gather her some cherries, and Joseph says, "Let the father of the baby get you some cherries," and Jesus rebukes him from inside the womb. The first song is country-gospel style, the second a female soloist with Renaissance-style strings. Both of them have wonderful last stanzas; in "Joseph and Mary," Joseph asks the baby when his birthday will be, and he answers: "The sixth of January my birthday will be, when the stars and the elements shall tremble with glee." In "The Cherry Tree Carol," Mary asks the baby what the world will be, and he answers, "This world is none other than the stones in the street, but the sun, moon and stars, Mother, shall sing under thy feet."
Christmas Revels, Exultation, from "Wassail! Wassail!" Choir and early-music instruments, very danceable and joyful. "Come away to the skies, my beloved, arise, and rejoice in the day thou wast born!"
on this day earth shall ring, A La Nanita Nana, from "Songs for Christmas." A beautiful lullabye.
Word of Mouth Chorus, Milford (If angels sung) from "Rivers of Delight." Now, this is real shapenote singing: the melody's in the tenor, with a couple of layers of harmony above it, so it takes some practice to figure out which voice to listen to. And there's none of this dynamics nonsense; this is a choir of people singing at the tops of their voices.
Waverly Consort, Orientis Partibus, from "The Christmas Story." Also known as "The Carol of the Ass." Renaissance-style choir and orchestra.
Deller Consort, Herrick's Carol (What sweeter music), from "The Holly and the Ivy." Four-part male choir, a capella. I love these carols where the paganism creeps through: "We see him come and know him ours, who with his sunshine and his showers turns all our patient ground to flowers."
While I'm offering music, maybe some of you could supply me with one of these:
- A good choral performance of the Parker/Shaw arrangement of "O Sanctissima"
- A good choral performance of "Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella." English, French, I'm not picky.
- A carol called "Corpus Christi Carol," but not the Jeff Buckley one. It begins "The hen flew east and the hen flew west," and it was played on "Thistle and Shamrock" a long time ago.
geoviki!)barkley!)Robert Shaw Chamber Singers: Hacia Belen Va Un Borrico, from "Songs of Angels." A capella choir with a wonderfully juicy baritone solo.
Waverly Consort: This Endris Night, from "A Waverly Consort Christmas." Male and female soloists with Renaissance instruments. I think what I like best about this is how Jesus is a baby, but not quite a baby; he tells Mary how to treat him: "And if I weep and may not sleep, thou sing'st, Bye bye, lullay."
Boston Camerata: Joseph Est Bien Marie, from "Xmas." Choir and Renaissance orchestra, with everything I love about Renaisssance music.
Maddy Prior and the Carnival band, Ane Sang of the Birth of Christ, from "Carols and Capers." A sweet song with Scots dialect. "And were the world ten times sae wide, clad all wi' gold and stains o' pride, unworthy yet it were tae thee under thy feet an stool to be."
Bruce Cockburn, Down In Yon Forest from "Christmas." A lot of y'all seem to have Jeff Buckley's "Corpus Christi Carol" -- this is in a similar vein, mixing Arthurian and Christian imagery in a similarly creepy way.
(And by the way, if anyone has a different tune, also called "Corpus Christi Carol," that was aired on "Thistle and Shamrock" one year -- it begins, "The hen flew east and the hen flew west" -- please please share it with me; I've been looking for it for years.)
Christmas Revels, Brightest and Best from "Christmas Day in the Morning." Female soloist with a capella choir. I think this is originally a shapenote carol, though it's not being performed that way here; it has that sort of haunting oddness.
Mike and Peggy Seeger, Joseph and Mary, from "American Folk Songs for Christmas," and Baltimore Consort, The Cherry Tree Carol, from "Bright Day Star." This is essentially the same story -- Mary asks Joseph to gather her some cherries, and Joseph says, "Let the father of the baby get you some cherries," and Jesus rebukes him from inside the womb. The first song is country-gospel style, the second a female soloist with Renaissance-style strings. Both of them have wonderful last stanzas; in "Joseph and Mary," Joseph asks the baby when his birthday will be, and he answers: "The sixth of January my birthday will be, when the stars and the elements shall tremble with glee." In "The Cherry Tree Carol," Mary asks the baby what the world will be, and he answers, "This world is none other than the stones in the street, but the sun, moon and stars, Mother, shall sing under thy feet."
Christmas Revels, Exultation, from "Wassail! Wassail!" Choir and early-music instruments, very danceable and joyful. "Come away to the skies, my beloved, arise, and rejoice in the day thou wast born!"
on this day earth shall ring, A La Nanita Nana, from "Songs for Christmas." A beautiful lullabye.
Word of Mouth Chorus, Milford (If angels sung) from "Rivers of Delight." Now, this is real shapenote singing: the melody's in the tenor, with a couple of layers of harmony above it, so it takes some practice to figure out which voice to listen to. And there's none of this dynamics nonsense; this is a choir of people singing at the tops of their voices.
Waverly Consort, Orientis Partibus, from "The Christmas Story." Also known as "The Carol of the Ass." Renaissance-style choir and orchestra.
Deller Consort, Herrick's Carol (What sweeter music), from "The Holly and the Ivy." Four-part male choir, a capella. I love these carols where the paganism creeps through: "We see him come and know him ours, who with his sunshine and his showers turns all our patient ground to flowers."
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Date: 11/26/05 04:15 pm (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 11/26/05 05:09 pm (UTC)If you go to this directory, I've uploaded the Jethro Tull Christmas Album:
http://www.bonuspoints.net/songs/
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Date: 11/26/05 05:29 pm (UTC)Is there anything special you'd like in return? Christmasy or otherwise?
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Date: 11/26/05 05:28 pm (UTC)Carol of the Bells is another one I really like, but you don't find it too often. Or at least I don't.
I have some off beat Christmas music around here somewhere. Evergreen Mandolin Music for Christmas is very nice. Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Lots of older CD collections. Anne Murray, just because. Burl Ives.
Guess it's time to break them out, eh?
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Date: 11/27/05 03:03 am (UTC)Yeah, definitely time to pull out the Christmas music.
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Date: 11/26/05 05:38 pm (UTC)I have a copy of Carol of the Bells by Kenny Rogers, I think.
I also have a couple of Country Christmas Albums.
And A Very Speical Christmas 1 & 2.
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Date: 11/26/05 06:56 pm (UTC)I'm also very fond of the Cherry Tree Carol. I like songs that point out the illegitimate-birth angle. :)
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Date: 11/27/05 01:12 am (UTC)Jesus Christ, The Apple Tree (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0CAFBRHYT8QZ51UPEZOKY37Y1Q) - Susan McKeown and Nikki Matheson
Jesus Christ, The Apple Tree (http://s22.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=37T9XVHBZCMUD31ZJNDTV2MMVO) - The Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
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From:resonant, you are so completely groovy.
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Date: 11/27/05 03:14 am (UTC)Anyhow, you already gave me "Right" (I guess as a Thanksgiving present) -- you're done.
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Date: 11/27/05 02:15 am (UTC)And man, I love "Jesus Christ the Apple Tree", although it's the harmonies that I really like.
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Date: 11/27/05 03:15 am (UTC)Check out
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Date: 11/29/05 03:39 am (UTC)Thank you!
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Date: 12/2/05 01:47 am (UTC)I think I'll keep the request up and try to get a variety.
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