Christmas [Original recording reissued]

Franz Xaver Gruber (Artist), Morten Lauridsen (Artist), Mykola Dmytrovich Leontovych (Artist), Ken Neufeld (Artist), Lewis Redner (Artist), Noel Regney (Artist), John Rutter (Artist), Johann Abraham Peter Schulz (Artist), Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck (Artist), Christmas Traditional (Artist), Paul Salamunovich (Artist), Sinfonia Orchestra of Chicago (Artist), Los Angeles Master Chorale (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 15, 1996)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Original recording reissued
• Label: Rubedo Canis Musica
• ASIN: B000002NPV
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #248,984 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Carol of the Bells

2. What Sweeter Music, for chorus

3. Wassail

4. Do You Hear What I Hear?

5. The Lamb, for a cappella chorus

6. Puer Natus in Bethlehem (Piae Cantiones)

7. O Magnum Mysterium, for chorus

8. O Little Town of Bethlehem

9. The Angels And The Shepherds (Bohemian)

10. la nanita nana, carol (Spanish)

11. Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian)

12. De Virgin Mary had a baby boy

13. Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming) (Alte geistli

14. Hodie Christus natus est, motet for 5 voices & continuo (Cantiones Sacr

15. The Boar's Head Carol

16. Ihr Kinderlein kommet (O, Come, little children)

17. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)

18. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb tone and execution, September 1, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Christmas (Audio CD)

Maestro Salamunovich does a superb job of blending the Chorale in an unbelievable combination of tones with superlative diction. The great organs and symphonies of the world are something to be experienced, but Maestro Salamunovich brings expression of the music from a brilliantly-tuned instrument of voices and instruments. O Magnum Mysterium is a piece which one must listened.

8 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Particular interest in the song, "Sweet Little Jesus Boy.", October 20, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Christmas (Audio CD)

Please note that Sweet Little Jesus Boy is not, as presented, a "Traditional" song. The composer is Robert Hunter MacGimsey, who wrote the song on Christmas Eve in New York City when he observed how the celebration of the birth of Jesus had degraded into shameless drunkedness and commercialism, with the message of His ministry all but forgotten. He went to his apartment and began writing a lament: Sweet Little Jesus Boy, we didn't know you come to save us, Lord, look how we treated you...Our eyes was blind, we couldn't see, we didn't know who you was. My name is Glen Stockton. Bob MacGimsey was my uncle. Throughout his life he wrote hundreds of songs based on the old Negro style, including Shadrach, Jonah and the Whale, Jeri Jericho, Daniel in the Lion's Den, Down to the River, Were You There When They Crucified My Lord, and Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen. If you have ever heard genuine old Negro spirituals, most likely they were songs written and published by Bob MacGimsey. He passed away in 1979; his 100th birthday would have been September 7, 1998. He was also known as the world's greatest whistler, able to whistle in 3-part harmonies with perfect pitch. Most celebrated artists of the 1920's to 1940's sang his songs, and millions heard him whistle on NBC radio during that period. He worked at the Walt Disney Studios on the movie, "Song of the South," and was the whistling heard in many of the Disney classic animated features.