Tag Archives: Daily Dose of Christmas

I discovered this by some random YouTube searching. It’s an entire album, coded as a single video, by a Canadian composer named Wendy Jensen. Jensen’s album is a compilation of traditional songs and original works, and it’s quite a lovely, … Continue reading →

Ever see any of these “ambience” videos floating around YouTube? They are long videos, usually multiple hours long, that you can turn on and let play in the background if you want a specific sonic ambience. There are “rushing stream … Continue reading →

Francis Poulenc (1899-1963) is a composer about whom I know very little. I can’t even name a work of his off the top of my head! But maybe I should change that, after listening to today’s piece, Four Motets for Christmastime. … Continue reading →

A longer work today, and one that I’m unfamiliar with to this point: the Christmas Oratorio by Camille Saint-Saens. Saint-Saens was one of the most gifted musical prodigies in history, ranking almost with Mozart in terms of the ease with which music … Continue reading →

OK, yesterday I featured Queen doing “White Christmas”. Freddie Mercury is one of the four faces on my personal Mount Rushmore of popular music voices, so let’s see what I can find by the other three? Here’s Annie Lennox: Next … Continue reading →

Here’s a rarity that I didn’t even know existed. It’s not the best quality recording, because it’s taken from a live show more than forty years ago, but the worst recording of Freddie Mercury is still a recording of Freddie … Continue reading →

Since I’m doing all this James Bond content of late, here’s a Christmas song from the James Bond Christmas movie, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service! (Yes, it’s a Christmas movie, but yes, that ending…sob….anyway….) This song is heard in the movie … Continue reading →

Over the years I’ve posted a lot of Christmas music by chamber ensembles, but I tend to gravitate toward brass quintets and string quartets. So, today, let’s give the Woodwind Quartet and Quintets some love!

It’s December 1! If you’re new to my blogging game, this is something I’ve been doing every December for…a while, anyway. I did it every year at Byzantium’s Shores, and I’m doing it here. Every day from December 1 to Christmas … Continue reading →