Listening to records on Christmas day

[jwg]

We normally have WQXR or WCRB on listening to classical music in the background but since we were tired of Christmas music and too much talking so I decided to listen to some of our records. We have many of them. Last year we listened to one and for a number of years it was none. Of course we also have lots of CDs that we rarely listen to.

Yesterday it was 15 of them in a pretty broad range of genres. Not in the exact order but close:

Christmas in the New World by The Western World - North and Latin American Christmas music

Palestrina: Missa Hodie Christus Natus Est & Six Motets - King's College Choir

A Ceremony of Carols and other Britten - Robert Shaw Chorale

Long Time Ago - The Quadrivium, an early music group that I was a member of and one of the performers in this record.

Don Alfonso the Wise, Music of Medieval Spain -Trio Live Oak, a "spin-off" from the Quadrivium

A Coat of Many Colors , Songs of the Sephardim, Vol II by Voice of the Turtle, another Quadrivium "spin-off"

Musica Antiqua Slovac - Prague Madrigalists

Jacob Obrecht, Pierre de la Rue Motetten - ProCantione Antiqua

Harp of Joy - The Chancel Choir of Plymoth Church, Shaker Heights

A boy was born - The Boston Cecilia Chorus; Robert was a member and on this record

Turkey, songs and dances of Turkey - singers and ensembles of Radio Ankara

Goofing-Off Suite - Pete Seeger

Demolition Derby - Sandy Bull (only listened to a couple of cuts of this)

Greenhouse - Leo Kottke (side one only)

Abbey Road - Beatles

Comments

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

The Sandy Bull one sounds interetsing.

[rsc.livejournal.com]

The "other Britten" with the Ceremony of Carols was Rejoice in the Lamb and the Festival Te Deum.

The Cecilia recording, in addition to A Boy Was Born (also Britten), had the Poulenc Christmas Motets.

Abbey Road is not , in my opinion, the Beatles at their best, although there's some nice stuff on it.

[fauxklore]

I have several albums by Voice of the Turtle.

And I really need to listen to my LPs, tapes, and CDs more.