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#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalChristmas Week 5
December is a time of traditions. And the Classics a Day feed is no different. We continue our tradition of making Classical Christmas our December theme.
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The challenge is to post music related to the season. So sacred works for Advent and Christmas, secular works about winter, or even just music written and/or premiered in December.
Here are my posts for the fifth and final week in December.
12/26/22 Arnold Bax: Mater ora filium
Bax didn’t write much choral music. But in the early 1900s, he did set this traditional text, that celebrates the journey of the Three Kings.
12/27/22 William Crotch: Lo! Star-led Chiefs
This choral piece is often sung in Anglican churches during Epiphany. It was originally part of William Crotch’s oratorio “Palestine,” published in 1818.
12/28/22 Peter Cornelius: Three Kings from Persian lands afar
In the mid-1800s, Cornelius was a renowned opera composer in his native Germany. In England, he was a one-hit-wonder. And that one hit was this tune from his Op. 8 Weihnachtslieder.
12/29/22 Jacobus Clemens non Papa: Magi veniunt ab oriente
Most of Clemens’ output was sacred music. This would have been sung at a Feast of the Epiphany service, marking the Magi visiting the Christ child.
12/30/22 Jacob Handl-Gallus: Omnes de Saba
The text is one of the graduals for Epiphany. Handl first published his setting in his 1586 collection Opus musicum.