If you're looking for a warm, wonderful collection of instrumental Christmas music - listen to this Early Music gem!
sample 1 (mp3)
sample 2
This delightful ensemble includes Werner John on recorders and flutes, along with the Early Light musicians on oboe, violin, guitar, lute, harpsichord, cello - and features special guest Eugene Friesen of the Paul Winter Consort. Seven talented musicians playing wonderfully creative arrangements of Christmas classics - this CD could well become one of your holiday favorites!
"Christmas Past" is my FAVORITE Christmas album - and I'm a collector of Christmas albums! Nothing puts me in that peaceful, serene holiday mood better. ---L. Nichols, Nomahegan, NJ
"This CD is the most beautiful soothing and soulful music. Listening to "Christmas Past" invokes images and memories of times past, and is a new tradition in my home. Thank you!" --K. Desantis, Medford Lakes, NJ
"Christmas Past" is so relaxing... it helps to bring you back to the moment in such a crazy season. Everyone will enjoy it! --M. Costello, Conshohocken, PA
mp3 samples from Christmas Past:
- PERFORMERS AND INSTRUMENTS:
- WERNER JOHN - recorders, wooden flute, ocarina, pan flute, crummhorn, drum
- ROBERT ANDERS - guitar and lute
- JUD BARRY - oboe
- BETH YOUNGBLOOD-PETERSEN - violin
- JULIE MASCARELLA - harpsichord
- JUDITH GLIXON - cello
- with special guest EUGENE FRIESEN - cello
- SELECTIONS:
- 1) Bring a Torch (French traditional)
- 2) He Shall Feed His Flock (from Handel's MESSIAH)
- 3) The Journey (We Three Kings with a Medieval refrain)
- 4) Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
- 5) A Rose Unfolding (Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming)
- 6) Pachelbel's Christmas (canon rearranged to include Jolly Old St. Nicholas)
- 7) What Child is This?
- 8) Emmanuel (O Come, O Come Emmanuel)
- 9) Angels Rejoice! (Medley on Angelus ad Virginum - medieval carol)
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