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Best Classical Christmas Music: 10 Essential Pieces
Udiscovermusic ^ | December 20, 2024 | Alice Benton

Posted on 12/23/2024 11:30:53 AM PST by nickcarraway

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Handel: Messiah, HWV 56 / Pt. 2: XLII. "Hallelujah"

J.S. Bach: Magnificat in D Major, BWV 243: I. Chorus: "Magnificat"

Byrd: O magnum mysterium

1 posted on 12/23/2024 11:30:53 AM PST by nickcarraway
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Are they 10 Easy Pieces?.............


2 posted on 12/23/2024 11:32:08 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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Adoration of the Magi - O Magnum Mysterium - St Paul’s Choir School
https://youtu.be/yc4Gy0Rf5Os


3 posted on 12/23/2024 11:34:56 AM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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Wait just one dang minute. What about Grandma got run over by a Reindeer? 😏


4 posted on 12/23/2024 11:35:59 AM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Thanks for these. I’m always looking for good Christmas music and this list seems very useful. Remember singing O Magnum Mysterium in choral. One of my absolute favorites. Occasionally find myself singing it to myself at odd moments.


5 posted on 12/23/2024 11:37:43 AM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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What about Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer?
6 posted on 12/23/2024 11:37:52 AM PST by fso301
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Nero Wolfe - Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer - Elmo and Patsy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55YN0q0IJuw

Name a song, I might well have a Christmas video for it.


7 posted on 12/23/2024 11:42:57 AM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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Ok, minority report here for another “O Magnum Mysterium” by the great Spanish Renaissance composer Tomas Luis de Victoria.

No question that “Our Fenix, Mr. Byrd” is one of the greatest composers (if not THE greatest) England ever produced. But I think Sr. Victoria edges him out here. Tighter construction and clearer counterpoint.

O Magnum Mysterium

8 posted on 12/23/2024 11:47:20 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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rocking around the christmas tree by brenda lee...


9 posted on 12/23/2024 11:47:49 AM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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Great minds think alike!


10 posted on 12/23/2024 11:48:10 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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https://www.yout-ube.com/watch?v=r9URPvejWHk


11 posted on 12/23/2024 11:56:54 AM PST by BipolarBob (As it was in the days of Noah they were feasting, drinking egg nog and celebrating Christmas.)
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Sorry. Missed that one. Closest I’ve got is

O Christmas Tree (Harry Potter, Bones, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings, NCIS LA, Smallville, JAG, NCIS) - Tom Hall
https://youtu.be/xepLsxi6jQo


12 posted on 12/23/2024 11:57:01 AM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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ok... thank you for your effort and Merry Christmas...


13 posted on 12/23/2024 12:05:05 PM PST by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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Link below for beautiful live stream sacred Christmas music.

https://www.wqxr.org/shows/holiday-music/


14 posted on 12/23/2024 12:15:21 PM PST by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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Happy Christmas, please!

During the early research on the authorship of Night Before Christmas, Don Foster found that Happy Christmas was not in much use when Henry Livingston used it in his letter to his fiancee, Sally Welles in 1773. Happy Christmas was the original text in the 1823 first printing of the poem.


15 posted on 12/23/2024 12:15:29 PM PST by mairdie (GreenwichVillage ArmyPoet: https://www.iment.com/maida/family/father/oldsoldiersdrums/frontcover.htm)
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The entire soundtrack to Charlie Brown Christmas


16 posted on 12/23/2024 12:17:25 PM PST by woodbutcher1963
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Wait just one dang minute. What about Grandma got run over by a Reindeer? 😏

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I’ve always thought that that is a stupid and unattractive song.


17 posted on 12/23/2024 12:22:48 PM PST by laplata (They want each crisis to take the greatest toll possiWe neve hear of gambling paying off $billioble.)
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Jackson Berkey's Cantorum Christmas - The Anniversary Carols

https://www.amazon.com/Jackson-Berkeys-Cantorum-Christmas-Anniversary/dp/B00000HF2U

Still, Still Night, Jackson Berkey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eSc823q9rc

18 posted on 12/23/2024 1:15:34 PM PST by Oorang (Politicians:-a feeble band of lowly reptiles who shun the light and who lurk in their own dens. )
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Great post, thanks
Merry Christmas to all


19 posted on 12/23/2024 5:11:08 PM PST by orlop9
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Switch #1 and #2 and put Handel #3 and you are good to go.


20 posted on 12/23/2024 5:27:21 PM PST by Captain Compassion (I'm just sayin')
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