Baton Christmas

Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) was a German composer and conductor. His is best known for his opera 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor'. Besides this opera he composed works for orchestra, piano, choir and so...

Otto Nicolai (1810-1849) was a German composer and conductor. His is best known for his opera 'Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor'. Besides this opera he composed works for orchestra, piano, choir and so...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios, masses and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. When Gounod's Opera '...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios, masses and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. When Gounod's Opera '...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios, masses and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. When Gounod's Opera '...

French composer Charles Gounod (1818-1893) regained great successes as a composer of operas, oratorios, masses and as an organist soon after graduating at the Paris Conservatory. When Gounod's Opera '...

Max Reger (1873 -1916), was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. Between 1904 and 1912 Reger composed the "Schlichten Weisen" op. 76, 60 songs in 6 volumes. One of th...

Max Reger (1873 -1916), was a German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and academic teacher. Between 1904 and 1912 Reger composed the "Schlichten Weisen" op. 76, 60 songs in 6 volumes. One of th...

The Two Christmas Songs, 'Weihnachtsschnee' and 'Weihnachts Wiegenlied' are just beautiful examples of Edvard Grieg's craftsmanship as a songwriter. (Solo Voice and Concert Band)

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

The chorus Jauchzet Frohlocket! is the very beginning of the first part of Bach's Christmas Oratoria: 'Am erster Weihnachts-feiertage'. (Choir and Concert Band)

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

Much of Schubert's songs do have a simple strophic character. These verses stand half-way between 'Art-song' and 'Folk-song'; the melody seems to be drawn from nature. Schubert marvellously achieved t...

1. Adeste Fideles (Latin Hymn), 2. First Nowell (English Carol), 3. Oh, how joyfully (Sicilian Hymn), 4. Silent Night (German Carol), 5. Cold December's Winds were stilled (Catalan)

n 1980, wellknown and respected Brittish composer/arranger Peter Hope arranged a number of Christmas Carols which were recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra and Colin Davis. In this transcription...

On Christmas Eve of 1818, Catholic priest Josef Mohr, showed Austrian composer Franz Xaver Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816 and he asked Gruber to set the poem to music. Because the chu...

On Christmas Eve of 1818, Catholic priest Josef Mohr, showed Austrian composer Franz Xaver Gruber a six-stanza poem he had written in 1816 and he asked Gruber to set the poem to music. Because the chu...

'Transeamus usque Bethlehem' is a traditional Latin Christmas song, which was long erroneously attributed to the German Kapellmeister Joseph Schnabel (1767-1831). In the sixties of the twentieth centu...

'Transeamus usque Bethlehem' is a traditional Latin Christmas song, which was long erroneously attributed to the German Kapellmeister Joseph Schnabel (1767-1831). In the sixties of the twentieth centu...

'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection 'Hymns and Sacred Poems', having been written by Charles Wesley but this is not the version widely kno...

'Hark! The Herald Angels Sing' is a Christmas carol that first appeared in 1739 in the collection 'Hymns and Sacred Poems', having been written by Charles Wesley but this is not the version widely kno...

Three Christmas Carols arranged bty the American arranger Douglas McLain.

Three Christmas Carols arranged bty the American arranger Douglas McLain.

'Christmas Eve' is an opera in four acts with music and libretto by Rimsky-Korsakov and composed between 1894 and 1895. In the 3rd act of the opera, a chorus sings the Tsaritsa's praises in a magnific...