Season’s Greetings!
A few tunes from YouTube to mark the day, starting with a Ding-Dong from the Clare College Cambridge Choir and Geoffrey Simon …
From the same CD comes a super arrangement of the carol “Gaudete” which has had well over 1 million views on YouTube …
Next, Leroy Anderson’s “Sleigh Ride” from Canada with Karl Hirzer conducting. In this same Christmas Concert he introduced and played a rare Bach-Stokowski transcription entitled “Arioso,” so that’s included here too …
“Sleigh Ride” …
“Arioso” …
Another “Sleigh Ride,” this time from Prokofiev with Andre Previn and the LSO in 1977 …
Back to Stokowski with Mozart’s “Sleigh Ride” and infinitely more ‘big-boned’ than the usual ‘historically informed performance’ we hear nowadays …
Finally, still with Stokowski and Handel’s”Hallelujah,” the LSO Chorus being in fine form, the sopranos in particular in the very last bar! …
Happy Christmas!
Edward J.