Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas. Show all posts
Wednesday, 25 December 2019

Ivory Infant Jesus, 17th century Macau

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The Infant Jesus, holding the world in his hands, carved in ivory in the 17th century.  Once ivory objects were made all over Asia and E...
Tuesday, 24 December 2019

Jesus, Mary and Joseph, refugees. What was God trying to tell us ?

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The Nativity, a painting by Lu Hong nian ( 陸鴻年) 1914-1989. Summoned by Chinese angels, shepherds are arriving at the cave in which Mary...
Monday, 23 December 2019

Christmas non-fare on BBC

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photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST [CC BY 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)] This year's Christmas schedule on B...
Thursday, 14 November 2019

A Baroque Christmas Harmonia Mundi - Charpentier Pastorale de Noël

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A baroque Christmas from Harmonia Mundi, this year's offering in their acclaimed series. Great value for money - four CDs of music so...
Monday, 11 November 2019

Christmas at St George's, Windsor

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Christmas at St George's Chapel, Windsor , with the Choir of St. George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, James Vivian, organist and cond...
Wednesday, 2 January 2019

New Year in Vienna and the Elbphilharmonie Fledermaus

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On New Year's Day, Johann Strauss Die Fledermaus live from the Elbphilharmonie, Hamburg, Manfred Honeck conducting the NDR Elbphilha...
Monday, 31 December 2018

Fun New Years Eve concert - Lang Lang, Mariss Jansons

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New Years Eve, enjoying the Silversterkonzert from Munich, with Mariss Jansons and Lang Lang and the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen ...
Thursday, 27 December 2018

It's Elf !

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Sunday, 23 December 2018

Festive Bach Christmas Oratorio : Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment SJSS

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Festive Bach Weihnachts-Oratorium (Christmas Oratorio) BVW248 at St John's Smith Square with The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenme...
Wednesday, 20 December 2017

Posthumous Christmas : Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

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Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Christmas Overture is "posthumous", in the sense that the present form in which it's known was...
Sunday, 25 December 2016

1916 Hanukkah Germans, Armenian Christians

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German troops at the front 1916 Armenian Christians, Christmas 1916, in the midst of the Armenian Genocide Read more HERE
Tuesday, 30 December 2014

How people saw in New Year 1914-1915

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Thursday, 25 December 2014

Christmas in Vienna 2014 LINK

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The 2014 Gala Christmas Concert from the Wiener Konzerthaus was broadcast live on ORF TV this morning (Austria only) but is now availabl...

Weihnachten 1914

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Wednesday, 24 December 2014

Ernst Busch Alte-neues Weihnachtslied

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Traditional German Christmas carol spiced up by Ernst Busch in his inimitable way. Much closer to the real spirit of Christmas than tinse...

On hanget korkeat, neitosket

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On hanget korkeat, neitosket  ("How high the snowdrifts"}.  by Jean Sibelius, op 1/5 published as Viisi joululaulua, a collecti...
Wednesday, 10 December 2014

From Admiral Jellicoe, Happy Christmas NOT

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Tuesday, 9 December 2014

Swedish Xmas from Stone Records

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Stone Record's Christmas discs  are always a delight but this year's offering is unique. Deck the Halls, with Susanna Andersson a...
Thursday, 26 December 2013

Dresdner Kreuzchor Weihnachtszyklus 1945

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Rudolf Mauersberger's Weihnachtszyklus first performed 15th December 1944.with the Dresdner Kreuzchor. Two months later, Dresden woul...
Wednesday, 25 December 2013

Christmas in Vienna 2013 viewing link

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Angelika Kirchschlager, Ursula Langmayr (replacing Anna Prohaska), Luca Pisaroni and Joel Prieto in this year's Wiener Konzerthaus ...