December 24-25-26, 2010


Sandro Botticelli, Mystic Nativity, National Gallery, London, 1501
 
Christ Church Cathedral Choir Notes
Christmas / 1st Sunday after Christmas

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Two of the organ voluntaries for Christmas are the work of  Louis-Claude Daquin.  Click to go to his complete organ works performed by Olivier Baumont at the 1714 Boizard organ of the Abbey of Saint-Michel de Thiérache.
Louis-Claude Daquin
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The postlude for the Christmas Eve Choral Eucharist is Charles-Marie Widor, Toccata from Symphonie No. 5. Click to listen to a performance of the entire Symphonie No. 5, or any of its movements, by Marie-Claire Alain at the Cavaillé-Coll organ of the Church of St. Germain-en-Laye.
Charles-Marie Widor
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Once in Royal David's City sung by Edward Burrowes and the St. Paul's Cathedral Choir, John Scott conducting. (The painting is by Piero della Francesca, 1470, and hangs in the National Gallery, London.)

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California Boys' Choir

One of Benjamin Britten's very popular accomplishments is his Ceremony of Carols.

Click to read about the Ceremony of Carols.

Click to hear the Ceremony of Carols performed by the California Boys’ Choir. 

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Fra Filippo Lippi and Workshop, The Nativity, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., c. 1445

Online performances of Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248, with versions conducted by Georg Christoph Biller / Riccardo Chailly / Diego Fasolis / John Eliot Gardiner / Phillip Ledger / Karl Münchinger) 

Cantata I for the 1st Day of Christmas 

Cantata II for the 2nd Day of Christmas 

Cantata III for the 3rd Day of Christmas 

Cantata IV for New Year's Day 

Cantata V for the Sunday after New Year 

Cantata VI for the Feast of Epiphany

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Vittore Carpaccio, Flight into Egypt, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1500

The Gospel reading for December 26 tells of the Flight into Egypt.  Click to go to an online performance of Hector Berlioz, L'Enfance du Christ with Nicolai Gedda, Victoria de los Angeles, Ernest Blan, Roger Soyer, the René Duclos Choir, l'Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, André Cluytens conducting.

Click to go to a second performance with Yves Saelens, Miyaghi Osada,  Olivier Lallouette, André Cognet, Gregory Reinhart, il Coro della Radio Televisione Svizzera Italiana (Diego Fasolis, chorus master); l'Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Serge Baudo conducting.