Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 53 minutes ago, Cerebral Cortex said: definitely recommend Delius' Sleigh Ride (not that Sleigh Ride). And then there’s Mozart’s “Sleigh Ride” which is different from the other two! For anglophones, amusingly titled “Schlittenfahrt” in the original German Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will 2,215 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I think I've posted about it here before, but this album is awesome: Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 1 hour ago, Will said: I think I've posted about it here before, but this album is awesome: Thanks for the share. If we’re talkin’ swing jazz Xmas music it doesn’t get better than these two originally released as a single together in 1935. Will 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrbellamy 6,270 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Watching Breaking Bad this year introduced me to the Duke Ellington Nutcracker album. Love it! Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 2 minutes ago, mrbellamy said: Watching Breaking Bad this year introduced me to the Duke Ellington Nutcracker album. Love it! It is a nice one! It's mostly Billy Strayhorn's album, though, most of the arrangements were from him. Duke Ellington was responsible for this one, though: That opening Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I love The Duke’s Nutcracker too!! I discovered it about 5 years and it’s been a mainstay of my holiday listening since. The arrangements can be really offbeat and cool. Like the Chinese Dance one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,266 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 On 11/2/2017 at 0:35 PM, BloodBoal said: Try The Greatest Miracle. Holy shit, someone else here knows this score! Stu, you'll like it. Its a great score. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 As far as film music is concerned, Mychael Danna did this wonderful 'ancient' christmas score that utilizes several well-known charols in gorgeous string settings. idril 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 7, 2017 Share Posted November 7, 2017 And picking up on the subject of music for wintry sleigh rides from earlier in the thread, here are two wonderful pieces from Bernard Herrmann The latter doesn't seem especially Christmasy to me, perhaps because it's an adaptation of "Miss McLeod's Reel" which can only ever make me think of Copland's "Hoe-Down," which is definitely not Christmasy at all. Cerebral Cortex 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted November 9, 2017 Share Posted November 9, 2017 Since I last posted in this thread we’ve had some more soundtracks released that I like to listen to; Elfman’s Scrooged Silvestri’s A Christmas Carol Mancini’s Santa Clause the Movie and a few, uh, unofficial ones... Giacchino’s 2 Prep & Landing scores Silvestri’s Polar Express score Going away from film music, I forgot about this gem my mom has in her LP collection; Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 24, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted November 24, 2017 Black Friday is the official start of the season and The Discos are decorating the Xmas tree (and the rest of the house) this morning and playing two CDs What else but... Bespin, Ollie and PokeDocMatt 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted November 24, 2017 Share Posted November 24, 2017 This year, the Charles Aznavour Christmas album will play in my ears! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,977 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 One of my favourite Christmas-themed pieces is Krzysztof Penderecki's 2nd Symphony. He is probably most known for his avant garde atonal music of his youth (and popularised by the horror films, I'm sure) but my favourite work of his is the exact opposite of that. He shocked the concert music scene in the early 1980's where he decided he's done with those crazy experiments and started composing music in a more neo-romantic idiom. And that is when this symphony premiered. It is actually labeled as "Christmas" symphony due to the inclusion of Silent Night as the running motif. But the entire work is quite brooding and dark. I love it. Karol Disco Stu and Dixon Hill 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idril 86 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 1 hour ago, crocodile said: One of my favourite Christmas-themed pieces is Krzysztof Penderecki's 2nd Symphony. He is probably most known for his avant garde atonal music of his youth (and popularised by the horror films, I'm sure) but my favourite work of his is the exact opposite of that. He shocked the concert music scene in the early 1980's where he decided he's done with those crazy experiments and started composing music in a more neo-romantic idiom. And that is when this symphony premiered. It is actually labeled as "Christmas" symphony due to the inclusion of Silent Night as the running motif. But the entire work is quite brooding and dark. I love it. This is really interesting - I didn't know this about Penderecki at all! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,977 Posted November 25, 2017 Share Posted November 25, 2017 Yeah, he basically stated that there is nowhere to go with all this aleatoric stuff and decided to go back to more traditional music. Oh speaking of Penderecki and Christmas, I listen to his Credo mass quite a lot around this time of the year: Karol Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,232 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 It used to be a tradition to get together with friends and jam on this back in Manhattan, but the west coast just isn't as fitting for it. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 Yeah, LA sucks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 8 hours ago, TheGreyPilgrim said: It used to be a tradition to get together with friends and jam on this back in Manhattan, but the west coast just isn't as fitting for it. A classic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted November 26, 2017 Share Posted November 26, 2017 If you are looking for a gentle intrumental christmas album that is great from the beginning to the end, this one with the Prague Philharmonic is a classic: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted November 27, 2017 Share Posted November 27, 2017 On 11/24/2017 at 10:16 AM, Disco Stu said: Black Friday is the official start of the season and The Discos are decorating the Xmas tree (and the rest of the house) this morning and playing two CDs What else but... I have both but We Wish You A Merry Christmas was one of the 1st CD’s I bought. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted December 2, 2017 Share Posted December 2, 2017 11 year old Korngold The Snowman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Just made this new playlist. That's for the cocktail hour, preferably to listen while drinking Champagne. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,489 Posted December 22, 2017 Share Posted December 22, 2017 Champagne is not a cocktail, unless it's a Champagne cocktail, which is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Omen II 1,235 Posted December 23, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted December 23, 2017 Listen to this, it'll blow your socks off. Monticello19, idril and Jurassic Shark 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 A holiday staple. Amirite, @Disco Stu? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,509 Posted December 23, 2017 Share Posted December 23, 2017 This has a very Christmas-y air about it. Lovely woodwind writing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holko 9,491 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 If we already had Gregorian... My family and I are pretty far from being religious, and neither do we listen to Gregorian regularly, but this has become a must-have for our Christmas: http://picosong.com/wRLeL/ (Wait out the halfway mark!) Also this album: It's one-person acapella overdubs Bobby McFerrin style, from a time before every narcissistic asshole with no singing talent on Youtube was doing it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,489 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 I'll be listening to GLORIA, later on. It doesn't get much more Christmasy than "Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth, peace to all men of goodwill". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 Just now, Richard said: I'll be listening to GLORIA, later on. It doesn't get much more Christmasy than "Glory to God in the highest, and on Earth, peace to all men of goodwill". I find that remark... insulting! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,489 Posted December 24, 2017 Share Posted December 24, 2017 I usually find it in The Bible Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Loert 2,509 Posted December 25, 2017 Share Posted December 25, 2017 Excellent work from Rachmaninoff...0:00 - 6:30 is filled with sleigh bells! (figuratively speaking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sharkissimo 1,973 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Short but sweet, but most importantly it's great for tormenting the neighbors. Gotta love Gergiev and his masterfully subtle sleight-of-hand. He's like Ludwig Van Beethoven by way of Ernest Borgine. Edit: I was meant to post this in the Classical Music thread, but oh... fuck it. This will do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 I don't start listening to Christmas music for another few weeks, but I'm definitely going to listen to this come December. It's the great Simon Callow reading an abridgement of Dickens' A Christmas Carol backed by a traditional English brass band playing Christmas music. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,489 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 On 12/10/2008 at 7:42 PM, Stefancos said: Christmas is meaningless without Last Christmas by Wham! That is true, but I prefer the b-side, EVERYTHING SHE WANTS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 2 minutes ago, The Illustrious Jerry said: And some Andrea Bocelli. I'll pretend I never saw that. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Illustrious Jerry 3,356 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 You cannot deny his voice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted November 10, 2018 Share Posted November 10, 2018 Well, he still has not recorded JW's works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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geom_00 36 Posted November 12, 2018 Share Posted November 12, 2018 On 12/23/2017 at 3:27 PM, Omen II said: Listen to this, it'll blow your socks off. Thank you for this! It was amazing! Hi all! I just found this site, and I'm glad there are so many people who love John Williams. Anyway, here is my contribution to the Christmas Music. Percy Faith's O Come All Ye Faithful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 25, 2018 Share Posted November 25, 2018 The Williams/BPO 1992 Joy to the World is of course a Christmas classic, but it definitely proves that dynamic range can be taken too far. The quiet parts are way too quiet and then you get blasted away when it gets loud from turning it up to hear the quiet stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 On 11/25/2018 at 8:25 AM, Disco Stu said: The Williams/BPO 1992 Joy to the World is of course a Christmas classic, but it definitely proves that dynamic range citan be taken too far. The quiet parts are way too quiet and then you get blasted away when it gets loud from turning it up to hear the quiet stuff. But it has Sleigh Ride. Woo hoo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 55 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: But it has Sleigh Ride. Woo hoo My favorite recorded performance of Sleigh Ride! That jazz drum set is so emphasized! It’s awesome JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted December 1, 2018 Share Posted December 1, 2018 It is my favorite as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geom_00 36 Posted December 2, 2018 Share Posted December 2, 2018 On 11/25/2018 at 9:25 AM, Disco Stu said: The Williams/BPO 1992 Joy to the World is of course a Christmas classic, but it definitely proves that dynamic range can be taken too far. The quiet parts are way too quiet and then you get blasted away when it gets loud from turning it up to hear the quiet stuff. If you want a really good version of Joy to the World that doesn't do that, may I suggest Percy Faith? I find his orchestral Christmas songs to be respectful to the season, but also very powerful. If any of you have Sirius XM radio, there is a channel called Holiday Pops. This channel (it might only be available online at the moment) has classical Christmas music 24/7 now until Christmas Day. I hope I'm not beaking any forum rules by "plugging" this, I just think the channel is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Is there any better Christmas music than John Coltrane's bittersweet rendition of "My Favorite Things"? It strikes precisely my ideal tone in Christmas music. I mean I listen to plenty of the joyful stuff too, but this feels like coming home. EDIT: Heh, just scrolled up and saw that @TGP already posted this last year. And that I endorsed that post at the time. Well, Christmas is all about perennial favorites/traditions after all! Dixon Hill 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 12,008 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 On 12/23/2017 at 9:27 PM, Omen II said: Listen to this, it'll blow your socks off. Great! I can't find my socks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bespin 8,472 Posted December 4, 2018 Share Posted December 4, 2018 Me neither, my cat now steal and hide them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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