[A version of this article first appeared as a post on my blog from the Front of the Choir] There were two articles in the UK national press a few years ago, one bemoaning the fact that we don’t sing Christmas carols together as much as we u...

traditional christmas carols from Greece

Procession, Wolcum Yole!, There is No Rose Cantores Celestes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith: Director Jacqueline Goring, Harp recorded on Dec 5, 2015 'The 7 Joys of Christmas - Carols Ancient and Modern' recorded by Rick Harper www.cantoresceleste...  moreProcession, Wolcum Yole!, There is No Rose Cantores Celestes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith: Director Jacqueline Goring, Harp recorded on Dec 5, 2015 'The 7 Joys of Christmas - Carols Ancient and Modern' recorded by Rick Harper www.cantorescelestes.com http://www.facebook.com/CantoresCelestes http://www.youtube.com/user/cantorescelestes http://twitter.com/Cantores_Choir  

Cantores Celestes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith: Director Tom Power: Banjo John Showman: Fiddle recorded on Dec 6, 2014 'An Appalachian Christmas' recorded by Patric McGroarty www.cantorescelestes.com http://www.facebook.com/CantoresCelestes http...  moreCantores Celestes Women's Choir Kelly Galbraith: Director Tom Power: Banjo John Showman: Fiddle recorded on Dec 6, 2014 'An Appalachian Christmas' recorded by Patric McGroarty www.cantorescelestes.com http://www.facebook.com/CantoresCelestes http://www.youtube.com/user/cantoresc... http://twitter.com/Cantores_Choir  

Flint Welsh Male Voice Choir www.flintmalevoicechoir.co.uk some behind the scenes footage at a practice. Sung to the tune of Morti Cristie

Love bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack from my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioni...  moreLove bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack from my first entrance in, Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning If I lack’d anything. ‘A guest,’ I answer’d, ‘worthy to be here:’ Love said, ‘You shall be he.’ ‘I, the unkind, ungrateful? Ah, my dear, I cannot look on Thee.’ Love took my hand and smiling did reply, ‘Who made the eyes but I?’ ‘Truth, Lord; but I have marr’d them: let my shame Go where it doth deserve.’ ‘And know you not,’ says Love, ‘Who bore the blame?’ ‘My dear, then I will serve.’ ‘You must sit down,’ says Love, ‘and taste my meat.’ So I did sit and eat.Love bade me welcome performed by Roundelay in Chester Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back, Guilty of dust and sin. But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack from my f...    less

Thomas Rossin conducts the women of the Exultate Chamber Choir in Benjamin Britten's Sequence of Christmas Carols , Phala Tracy, Harp, Soloists: Debra Grahn, Gabrielle Doran, Lea Kirdatt, Terry Cox, Kathryn Eakright, Courney Hauboldt. This concert was per...  moreThomas Rossin conducts the women of the Exultate Chamber Choir in Benjamin Britten's Sequence of Christmas Carols , Phala Tracy, Harp, Soloists: Debra Grahn, Gabrielle Doran, Lea Kirdatt, Terry Cox, Kathryn Eakright, Courney Hauboldt. This concert was performed at Thomas Aquinas Chapel at the University of St. Thomas in December of 2011.  

from our July 2012 concert, Sacred and Profound

G.T. Holst: I Love My Love The Waldorf Student Choir - Conductor: László Bencze Nancy: Réka Laczkó, the Boy: Áron Csutoros Written and Directed by László Bencze Director of Photography: Tamás Novinszki Editor: László Bencze Music recorded in the Lut...  moreG.T. Holst: I Love My Love The Waldorf Student Choir - Conductor: László Bencze Nancy: Réka Laczkó, the Boy: Áron Csutoros Written and Directed by László Bencze Director of Photography: Tamás Novinszki Editor: László Bencze Music recorded in the Lutheran Church at Bécsi Kapu Square (Budapest) by Miklós Lengyelfi II. Original unaltered version. Special Thanks: Eszter Dániel, Szabolcs Csanicz, Bulcsú Bencze, Jurányi Art Incubator House, Independently Together (FÜGE) --------------------------------- I Love My Love [Cornish Folksong] by G. T. Holst Abroad as I was walking, one evening in the spring, I heard a maid in Bedlam so sweetly for to sing; Her chains she rattled with her hands, And thus replied she: "I Love my Love because I know my Love Loves me! O cruel were his parents who sent my Love to sea, And cruel was the ship that bore my Love from me; Yet I Love his parents since they're his although They've ruined me: I Love my Love because I know my Love Loves me! With straw I'...    less

Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) A Ceremony of Carols op. 28 per coro femminile e pianoforte Balulalow Complesso Vocale di Nuoro Pianoforte Caterina Denti Soprano Paola Sotgiu Direttore Franca Floris Nuoro -- Cattedrale S. Maria della Neve