Christmas Collection

As the title suggests in Christmas Bells, bells play the leading part. This medley begins with bell chiming on the CD (this comes with the set), after which the band come in with a solid chord. During...

O Heiland, reiß die Himmel auf (O Savior, Rend the Heavens Wide) was written by the German poet Friedrich von Spee (1591-1635) during the Thirty Years? War. The profound text echoes the misery of that...

Maria durch ein? Dornwald ging (Blest Mary Wanders Through the Thorn) is a traditional German Christmas song. The earliest known version is recorded in the Andernacher Gesangbuch from 1608. Halfway th...

Polish Christmas Lights is a collection of three traditional Polish Christmas carols arranged for wind ensemble with flexible instrumentation. These three themes are used throughout the composition, w...

The Englishman, Bishop Reginald Heber (1783?1826), wrote Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning for Epiphany. These lyrics were published in 1811, in the Christian Observer, but were set to mus...

God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen appeared in print for the first time in William Sandy's Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern in 1833, although it was believed to have been written many years earlier. Today...

When the song Silent Night was fi_x005Frst heard, at Christmas 1818 in the village church of Oberndorf, near Salzburg in Austria, no one could have dreamt of the success this Christmas carol would enj...

Gustav Holst composed almost 200 works, one being a very elegant and charming fantasy on the old English christmas carols: Good Christian Men, Rejoice; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; Come Ye Lofty, Co...

Gustav Holst composed almost 200 works, one being a very elegant and charming fantasy on the old English christmas carols: Good Christian Men, Rejoice; God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen; Come Ye Lofty, Co...

Gelobet seist du Jesu Christ (We Praise You Jesus Christ) is an old Christmas hymn dating from the 16th century, which can still be found in many hymnbooks today. John Blanken has created a varied and...

Polish Christmas Lights is a collection of three traditional Polish Christmas carols arranged for wind/brass ensemble with flexible instrumentation. These three themes are used throughout the composit...

Dieses Werk basiert auf den zwei Liedern Puer natus est und Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, alle gleich. Jacob de Haan arrangierte diese zwei Lieder unter Verwendung von thematischem Material der Gregorianis...

Dieses Werk basiert auf den zwei Liedern Puer natus est und Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, alle gleich. Jacob de Haan arrangierte diese zwei Lieder unter Verwendung von thematischem Material der Gregorianis...

The Holly and the Ivy is one of the oldest and most popular of all English Christmas carols. The text refers to Mary and Jesus, but equally to the pre-Christian tradition of celebrating the winter sol...

Mit diesem Arrangement des ursprünglich französischen Weihnachtsliedes Engel auf den Feldern singen hat Roland Kernen wieder einmal ein bezauberndes Konzertstück geschaffen. Das Werk beginnt mit einer...

The Spirit of Christmas is a medley of charming Christmas carols, all with an international character. The medley consists of the following five carols: Away in a Manger; The First Noel; It Came Upon...

The Little Drummer Boy ist ein Weihnachtslied, dessen Melodie Jung und Alt sofort wieder erkennen werden. Dieser Weihnachtsklassiker erzählt von einem kleinen Jungen, der das in seiner Krippe liegende...

The Christmas Song, der seltsamerweise an einem heissen Sommertag des Jahres 1946 komponiert wurde, ist ein Evergreen unter den Weihnachtsliedern. Der Text beschreibt sehr anschaulich ?Maronen, die üb...