Classical Christmas Music that ISN'T Handel's Messiah or The Nutcracker
We all love The Nutcracker and Messiah, but maybe it's time to take a break? If you're looking for Christmas music that's a little different this year, here's a whole bunch of it from the classical cannon.
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Great selection! I may have missed it, but for me Corelli’s Concerto Grosso (the Pastorale!) is classical Christmas 🎄 Maybe next year for the follow up?
@KeepitClassical
2 жыл бұрын
That's a fantastic piece! I planned to save it for a future video (you read my mind!), but I very much appreciate the suggestion
David Lang's 'Little Match Girl Passion' is a Christmas story set to music, for anyone who likes a good cry during the holiday season.
@KeepitClassical
2 жыл бұрын
Very true! I actually forgot about that work, maybe 'cause it's so sad 😭
Victoria's (or Lauriden's) setting of the introit for Christmas Day: O Magnum Mysterium.
Yes exactly, this is such a necessary topic of discussion, at least for the US and the UK, as we've become so narrow in our tastes. I've not actually seen any of these live but in the UK its not completely unheard of for them to be performed, my recommendations are: 1) Charpentier: Messe de Minuit pour Noël 2) Durante: Messe Kyrie-Gloria "In Pastorale" 3) Scarlatti (A): Messa Per Il Sanctissimo Natale 4) Lobo: Missa Beata Genitrix Maria 5) Padilla: Missa Joseph fili David 6) Clemens Non Papa: Missa Pastores Quidnam Vidistis
Gian Carlo Menotti's "Amahl and the Night Visitors" is a televised opera for Epiphany that premiered in 1951.
@TristanMA
2 жыл бұрын
Try the Pastorales of Torelli, Schiassi, Manfredini, Locatelli, and Zavateri, Bizet & Guiraud's L'arlesienne Suites, Strauss II- The Blue Danube, Rutter's Carols (Shepherd's Pipe, What Sweeter Music, Christmas Lullaby), Tavener''s The Lamb, Fantasia on Greensleeves, Pachelbel's Canon, Rimsky-Korsakov's Christmas Eve Suite, Waldteufel's Skaters Waltz, Massenet's Last Sleep of the Virgin, Widor's Toccata, Warlock's Capriol Suite, Brahms' Geistliche'es Wiegenlied, Nicolai's Vom Himmel Hoch Overture, Beethoven's Fur Elise, Ireland's The Holy Boy, Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Instrumental Noels of Corrette, Charpentier, etc.
To be honest, for most Germans, Bach's Christmas Oratorio isn't really what you'd call an insider tip.
@KeepitClassical
Жыл бұрын
Hence, this video is not present in German 😉