Another year, another chance to post great Christmas music through december. A carol (or similar) a day for Advent, or at least the bit of it that turns up on Advent Calendars. Starting with...
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1. It's appropriate this year to start with a Ukranian carol. Everyone knows the English version which was created 101 years ago, but this is 'Schedryk', originally a New Year Carol, accompanied by bandur, the Ukranian string instrument. Slava Ukraini!
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Sorry, I really wasn’t clear there, was I? Our ‘Carol of The Bells’ is the adapted version. The Ukrainian one is the OG.
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Love this carol in all its forms. Thank u for a new one. 🙏 Slava Ukraine. 🇺🇦
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Here's another great version -
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It’s December. It means it’s high time for Carol of the Bells / Shchedryk, a beautiful melody by the Ukrainian composer Leontovych which is based on traditional Ukrainian carols:
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2. I'm OBSESSED by 's setting of 'Lully, Lulla, Lullay'. This recording by is insanely beautiful. Warning: it's sort of mesmeric, then as the soprano takes off in the final verse you become dead of joy. Mind how you go.
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3. Another lullaby, but a slightly different mood - a lovely slug of Austrian schmaltz: 'Still, Still, Still'. Sung here by the Cologne Cathedral Girls' Choir in a really rather gorgeous arrangement. Death is still mentioned, but it's a bit less murdery.
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