Favourite Christmas CD?

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What is your favourite Christmas CD? I’m trying to expand my Christmas CD collection and would like some suggestions.

My 2 favourite Christmas CDs are:
  1. Midnight Mass From a Medival Cathedral
    Sung by Schola Gregoriana of Cambridge. Choristers of King’s College, Cambridge.
    I don’t think I have to describe it as I am sure you can all imagine what a beautiful Christmas Mass sounds like but I especially like the opening “The Ceremony of the Shepherds” which was recorded during a live celebration of the Mass from Rouen Cathedral. 13th century style!
  2. The Bells of Dublin by The Chieftians.
    I like some tracks better than others. It opens with the ringing of the bells of Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin. and merges nicely into a polished performance of “Christmas Eve”. I love “Don Oiche Ud I mBeithil” a very old Irish carol and also the Wexford Carol. There are some great sets, especially the “Wren boys”. The Renaissance Singers add a nice classical touch to the album.
    I’m not so keen on “The Rebel Jesus.” It is a very cynical complaint about the hypocrisy of the supposedly pious. However, it is well-done and the arrangement is interesting, with the mixing of traditional instrumentation with a contemporary beat and style.
    I really dislike Ricki Lee Jones’ “O Holy Night”. It sounds like she had a bad head cold but I do enjoy this track for its uillean pipes interlude.
    The Stephen’s Day murders is funny but I wish it wasn’t #3.
I actually listen to both of these all year round!!!

Gearoidin
 
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One of my favorites is Luciano Pavoratti’s O Holy Night CD.
 
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Gearoidin:
What is your favourite Christmas CD? I’m trying to expand my Christmas CD collection and would like some suggestions.
  1. The Bells of Dublin by The Chieftians.
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I’d have to agree with you about the Bells of Dublin CD.
My favorite Christmas CDs:
  1. Christmas–Bruce Cockburn. Amazing. Old songs, a new song, 4 languages (english, french, spanish and huron!) The Huron Carol (Iesus Ahatonhia) is sung in the Huron indian language. It was written by St. Jean de Brebuef, one of the North American martyrs who’s feast we recently celebrated!
  2. OK, this is hard, just two. I like most of the songs on the Our Chirstmas CD, but it maybe out of print, Al Green singing “The First Nowell” and Roberta Flack with “What Child Is This?” in a mostly major key–it works, Also Amy Grant, Sandi Patti and other ccm-ers. But if I had to pick one CD here, I’d go with
    Kiev Christmas Liturgy with the Moscow Liturguc Choir, Fr Amvrosy, conductor. Haunting.
 
morning and night offices for Christmas vigil and Christmas day, chant CD from monks of someplace, it’s at work, I will get the number and post.
 
Insead of two specific CD’s how about artists or groups?

I have two Manheim Steamrollers I like and two Transiberian Orchestras I like.

Of course, I have tons of other Christmas music that I listen to and have promised my family when they are home I won’t listen to them until Thanksgiving and stop after the Epiphany.

Brenda V.
 
My newest fav: Il Divo! (although I am not sure if “somewhere over the rainbow” is a Christmas song).

Before: The Carpenters, Charlote Church, Mariah Carey, Christmas Carols…

but how can we cheerfuly celebrate Christmas, while our Brothers and Sisters everywhere are persecuted? (The Coptic Church was attacted, the Beheading and the Closing of Churches in Indonesia, the oppression in the Middle East). 😦
 
Anything by Mannheim Steamroller! Their rendition of “Veni, Veni Emmanuel” is what introduced me to traditional Latin music…good stuff!!

-ACEGC
 
The Christmas one by “Kenny G” came out a few years ago…I can’t think of the name of it right now and my son has it…
 
Difficult choice…I have several CDs at home, Mannheim being a big portion of them (4 or 5) (even got to see them perform last year in Denver 😃 ). But, I’d have to say its a tie between 2:
  1. Jim Reeves and
  2. Nat King Cole
These are just two that my mom would play on the old vinyl when I was growing up. Some upperbeat songs, we’d dance around the house. She and my dad have been gone now 4 years, and I miss them dearly, and miss those times.
 
Thanks for all the great suggestions. I’ll have to look into some of these.

Gearoidin
 
King’s College has a beautiful one.

For Mannheim Steamroller fans, listen to the instrumental of Silent Night late at night with all the lights off except the Nativity and the Christmas Tree. Very moving.

I just get Dan Fogelberg’s Christmas CD last year and I love it. You should sample it at least.
 
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but how can we cheerfuly celebrate Christmas, while our Brothers and Sisters everywhere are persecuted? (The Coptic Church was attacted, the Beheading and the Closing of Churches in Indonesia, the oppression in the Middle East). 😦
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We do not need to be cheerful, if by cheerful you mean that obnoxiously perky optimism that is a mask for sheer indifference to the suffering of others… BUT: we are called to rejoice, to be joyful, to remember that Christ was born into the world to conquer death and evil, that His Kingdom of Love is coming where He will reign victorious forever. Joy is something interior, something we can maintain even in the midst of outward struggle and emotional unhappiness or turmoil. Christmas is a time of great hope, even, and especially in the midst of the tragedies you describe.

As the marvelous Gospel of John states,
“The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
 
The Oakridge Boys,👍 “Thank God for Kids”, I love that song and “Little one” I have it only on a cassette and no longer have a cassette player, does anyone know where I can get a CD of this? I bought this when my children were little (in the late 80’s) Now I have grandbabies:love: and love to hear it again.
 
My 2 favorites are Trans-Siberian Orchestra “ChristmasEve and Other Stories” And Chicago XXV
~ Kathy ~
 
“The Many Moods of Christmas” suites with the Robert Shaw Chorale and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
 
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Difficult choice…I have several CDs at home, Mannheim being a big portion of them (4 or 5) (even got to see them perform last year in Denver 😃 ). But, I’d have to say its a tie between 2:
  1. Jim Reeves and
  2. Nat King Cole
These are just two that my mom would play on the old vinyl when I was growing up. Some upperbeat songs, we’d dance around the house. She and my dad have been gone now 4 years, and I miss them dearly, and miss those times.
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I remember too, Dad playing Jim Reeves records at Christmas time. The Good Old Days;) .

I like the Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton CD. Oooh cannot forget the chipmunks.
 
My vote is for Nat King Cole, too! God blessed that man with a wonderful voice!
I also like Lawrence Welks Christmas album for nostalgic reasons. Not sure if its available on cd.

Lukelion
 
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