Your favourite Christmas Carol

[Dave the OAP]

This is mine

Sung by the mothers waiting for Herod's men to come and kill their sons

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIvH5GdY4JE

 

[Dave the OAP]

Sung this many times

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLQRxZpkgrY&feature=related

 

[Dave the OAP]

also this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FRtBVYYMW4

part two is the next one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JveXl0bLM1I&feature=related

 

[Mellotron]

Oh Holy Night by a country mile.

The chords are as EPIC as anything I've ever heard. Surprised Muse have never covered it, would be perfect for them.

 

[Lady Whistledown]

We three kings of Orient are
One in a taxi, one in a car
One on a scooter, beeping his hooter
Smoking a fat cigar

Ahhhh, it's like being seven years old again.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

My least favourite is The First Noel.

 

[The Large One]

Are there any that don't sound like a dirge?

Any happy ones?

 

[Tooting Gull]

Still the best

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu3QPjmHXug

 

[Dave the OAP]

Oh Holy Night by a country mile.

The chords are as EPIC as anything I've ever heard. Surprised Muse have never covered it, would be perfect for them.

I do like Oh Holy Night, but I personally prefer singing more complicated harmony stuff.

In Dulce Jubilo ( not the Mike Oldfield version)
Angelis Ad Virginem
In the Bleak Midwinter ( Darke or Holst version)

 

[WATFORD zero]

My least favourite is The First Noel.

or

 

[Titanic]

In terra pax - Gerald Finzi

There is a rather good new recording of it available here...

Track 6... CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY (A) - In Terra Pax (Doyle, Williams, City of London Choir, Bournemoth Symphony, Wetton) - 8.572102

 

[Dave the OAP]

In terra pax - Gerald Finzi

There is a rather good new recording of it available here...

Track 6... CHRISTMAS ANTHOLOGY (A) - In Terra Pax (Doyle, Williams, City of London Choir, Bournemoth Symphony, Wetton) - 8.572102

Agreed did that last year.

In Terra Pax in the Bach B Minor is quite sublime

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agNMQ3FtwBk

Pyotr Illich Tchaikovsky's The Crown of Roses has beautiful words

 

[Brovion]

Are there any that don't sound like a dirge?

Any happy ones?

What? How can you call something like "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" a dirge? It's an inspiring piece of music. And "Ding Dong Merrily On High" positively bounces along.

I think my favourite is probably God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen, but it varies depending on my mood and the circumstances.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Are there any that don't sound like a dirge?

Any happy ones?

There are plenty of happy ones, Oh Little Town of Bethlehem, Little Donkey etc,

Its all about what you want out of it. personally I find a lot of teh more "serious" carols tend to be very dark

I never really understood the Christian celebration of a child that was born, who would die in a most horrible and barbaric way as something to be happy about.

Doesnt stop me enjoying singing some of the most beautiful music though

 

[Dave the OAP]

Al this is a jolly basque carol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKQIomtXXkc&feature=related


" most highly flavoured gravy!"

 

[Acker79]

The Muppet one.

 

[corkster]

In the bleak mid winter

 

[Nigella's Cream Pie]

In the bleak mid winter

Beat me to it - Kings College Choir:

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[Ding Dong !]

O holy night.

It's b e a utiful

 

[Juan Albion]

Here is the Canadian entry, a truly beautiful carol from the native point of view.

Known as the Huron Carol, or Twas In The Moon of Wintertime, or Jesus Ahatonhia.

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