Christmas Greetings from Colin (via a round robin) to friends, Column readers & music-lovers everywhere. Sleigh Ride. Troika. Messiah. Weihnachtsoratorium. Shepherds’ Farewell. Jesu, joy of man’s desiring. Oratorio de Noël. A Children’s Overture.

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Tenebrae (choir)

Munich Bach Orchestra/Karl Richter.

(No apologies from me for using a second Colin Davis recording, his 1961 version of L’Enfance.)

Myra Hess’s transcription.

Saint-Saëns’s Oratorio de Noël (complete) conducted by Christoph Poppen.

Roger Quilter’s A Children’s Overture (1919). Czecho-Slovak Radio SO/Adrian Leaper.

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Guy Holloway on December 17, 2022 at 9:26 am

What an under-appreciated joy the Saint-Saëns is! It was written when he was only 22 or so. I’ve been listening this week to the 1981 Anders Eby recording with the stellar Swedish soprano Britt-Marie Aruhn. I also love the recording for Anne Sofie von Otter’s ‘Expectans Expectavi’ – I’m pretty sure it’s her first commercial recording (made when she was 26)…
Happy Christmas listening to you, Colin, and to all on this forum.
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Rob Cowan on December 17, 2022 at 11:35 am

And to you Colin and to every other Col’s Column dweller.
Best.
Rob.
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canderson on December 17, 2022 at 7:37 pm

Thanks chaps. Col
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