Due to a series of events, it's December again. And for the fifth year, I'm going to do an advent calendar of carols. Sub-category: Ones I particularly like. Something old, something new, nothing cheeky, nothing blue. I'll link to them all in this thread and do a YouTube playlist as well. - ThreadSky

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social • 153 days ago

Due to a series of events, it's December again. And for the fifth year, I'm going to do an advent calendar of carols. Sub-category: Ones I particularly like. Something old, something new, nothing cheeky, nothing blue. I'll link to them all in this thread and do a YouTube playlist as well.

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freedomquixote.bsky.social•131 days ago

Thanks for doing this, last year's was an education 👍

hodders129.bsky.social•153 days ago

Ahhh thank you! A lovely start to the Christmas period!

flashwildlove.bsky.social•153 days ago

"Due to a series of events, it's December again."

I blame November. It's a real quitter when it gets into the 30s.

washerofpots.bsky.social•150 days ago

📌

markiddon.bsky.social•150 days ago

Seasons greetings Mr Addison! Looking forward to listening to this years collection of festive loveliness. x

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•150 days ago

Hello, you! Happy Advent! x

janeinbath.bsky.social•152 days ago

I used to love this when I was on the other place. I'm so pleased you're continuing the tradition over here.

linguistforsail.bsky.social•152 days ago

📌

dragsh.bsky.social•149 days ago

Thank you for this lovely gesture. No idea how I missed previous years but now I’ve got a treat coming.

johnsculpture.bsky.social•152 days ago

What’s your YouTube channel called? Getting from here to where I can pick it up from my YT history is ridiculously painful.

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•152 days ago

I’ve no idea. It’s just a playlist. Can you not just follow the link?

johnsculpture.bsky.social•152 days ago

Yes but that goes to pop up in blue sky, which lets me jump to a browser, which lets me jump to an app where I’m signed in and somewhere along the line it doesn’t find the playlist just the song.

But…now this reply is in my history I can follow that so I don’t care so much.

johnsculpture.bsky.social•152 days ago

Technology, making everything simpler since…

richardpaulsimms.bsky.social•148 days ago

📌

alicharlo.bsky.social•133 days ago

📌

viperish.bsky.social•153 days ago

Wow! Thank you, I'd never have heard that if you hadn't posted it. I like it here.

nycclaudia.bsky.social•149 days ago

📌

laurenlaverne.bsky.social•137 days ago

This is LOVELY x

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•137 days ago

😘 It's my favourite thing every year.

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

You can find the playlist here. I'll add as we go along, of course.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ7C147l-vtUlEUotT_2YIw0CR0cAqeS&si=vSYIb6OBIRb0G08H

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

There are playlists for the other years, too. Some videos have fallen off YouTube, but the vast, vast majority are still there.

Here's the original one from 2020.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ7C147l-vtvpSFSNvUXkYcOsF12MI_s&si=4UE2LLXe_99PvGHt

lomelindi12.bsky.social•153 days ago

Thanks for this! Love Christmas carols

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

This is the one from 2021.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ7C147l-vt9ncFiztiGzS0Z_XyHACMF&si=VnbOzEi4l_5aKTVM

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

This is 2022's.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ7C147l-vtCprjQ6HDL96Nx98jWSoA8&si=kH_b7rTGJILLpp68

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

And here's last year's.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQJ7C147l-vsXAVidVqxnlQ9ACs3Pdlox&si=r4lO96rK7OZIxR8O

alistairkirk.bsky.social•146 days ago

How did I not know you'd been doing this? Now I've got 5 years of carols to catch up on .

alixkroeger.bsky.social•150 days ago

📌

troyella.bsky.social•146 days ago

Thank you. 📌

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

1. Let's begin with something that's old *and* new - 'Maria's vaggvisa', which is Swedish composer Fredrik Sixten's stunning arrangement of the ker-lassic Franz Gruber setting of 'Silent Night'. All sorts of things I like crammed into one carol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzyZ2mWl4bk

horsehead13.bsky.social•153 days ago

Vaggvisa sounds like it could be something blue

infotempling.bsky.social•153 days ago

Thank you - that’s exquisite and a new one to me

fionadolman.bsky.social•153 days ago

Every Christmas my dad would play me carols I’d never heard before. I miss him desperately this time of year and this has reminded me of him so much. Will really look forward to the next ones but this version of silent night is simply beautiful and he would have loved it. Thanks Chris.

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

That's lovely, Fiona. I hope he'd have liked the next lot. Check down the thread for links to previous years' playlists, if you like.

snowythepyro.bsky.social•152 days ago

BBC Symphony Chorus sang this a few years ago in our Christmas concert - but set in English. Somehow it's even more beautiful in Sixten's own language ❤️

simonpartridge.com•152 days ago

Oh my, that is gorgeous. The Swedes really have a way with Christmas music, don't they? My *current* favourite Christmas album is "Julens Stjärna" by the Stella Chamber Choir but now I'm odd to investigate the rest of *this* album. Thanks for sharing it. https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_kMzPSSTHekRO4bh1Q6PZ5sjVeEa5wJzYk&si=1ck-QbMe-ALbfMus

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•152 days ago

They sure do. I think theirs is the strongest Christmas game, run reasonably close by the Polish tradition. I've posted a bunch of scandi stuff in the last few years and even persuaded (or at least influenced mildly) the MD of our choir to get us to sing 'Jul, jul, strålande jul' last year. Goals.

simonpartridge.com•152 days ago

Lucky you - how wonderful! I miss singing in a choir. Losing yourself in that body of sound. Happy memories of Christmas as a boy chorister. Just the best time of year for singing.

sarahcgray1.bsky.social•153 days ago

Oh my goodness. That is sensational

jjdg26.bsky.social•153 days ago

Thanks, played it while putting up the Christmas tree. I should add that I was not putting up the Christmas tree myself (I shamelessly dodged the task), but I think it gave the rest of the household an added bit of motivation, so in a sense I contributed.

blashford.bsky.social•153 days ago

This is what Social Media needs right now, every day.

linda73.bsky.social•153 days ago

Thank you for starting with this. It's utterly joyous 🎶

feebee69.bsky.social•152 days ago

This sounds like some kind of passport a woman needs for having sex abroad.

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•152 days ago

2. Somehow, singing Daddy Bach’s ‘O Jesulein süß’ unaccompanied makes it even lovelier. Turns out he needn’t have bothered writing all the instrument parts. Please don’t tell the people who want to cut orchestra funding.

https://youtu.be/SNNTDzlIkqQ?si=e8qmeRdIuEZ5Orp2

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•151 days ago

3. 'A Simple Gloria' by Libby Larsen. Gorgeous 21st Century American carol, sweetly performed by the Sacramento University Chorale.

https://youtu.be/wBI-U_-nk8k?si=an0apJJsVc2G9YzA

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•150 days ago

4. Stone cold classic, this. A proper Proustian, childhood-invoking rush: David Willcock's arrangement of 'Shepherd's In The Field Abiding'. It's enormously satisfying to sing the glorias as a lower voice. You'll find it in the blue book. IYK, as the kids say, YK.

https://youtu.be/ckGy3uhwYmw?si=ydJ70KRG3HgOnfDI

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•149 days ago

5. All-round marvel Anna Lapwood's own setting of 'O Nata Lux'. So simple, so beautiful, yet you never know what corner it's going to turn. It starts with a sort of hypnotic dissonance, then at a minute opens out into this lovely bluesy thing, then changes again. And again.

https://youtu.be/txIhKh6Ob0s?si=GWCa2tWASCAB6Wsu

simon-beattie.bsky.social•149 days ago

In case you might be interested, here's an offering of mine which was published last year: https://soundcloud.com/simon-42-1/advent-calendar-1 Thanks for listening!

clublog.org•149 days ago

Thanks for the recommendation. That's absolutely wonderful. Singing the dissonant tones must be challenging...

judeabb.bsky.social•149 days ago

How absolutely beautiful. Thank you.

claredowding.bsky.social•149 days ago

Oooh, that's GORGEOUS!

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•148 days ago

6. Happy Nikolaustag to all Deutscher and Österreicher. Big old day for German-speaking kiddies. Did they get a visit from St. Nick or Krampus? There are lots of songs for what I'm now calling Nikkitag, but this one is especially loved: 'Oh, du Fröliche' - Oh, you joyful.

https://youtu.be/_GV-V_kXLjo?si=DfraInmKaAr9JIRP

bluepfist.bsky.social•149 days ago

Got any Two Step?

rgallacher.bsky.social•149 days ago

Thanks for all these. Never knew you were a choral/classical fan

ashhermes.bsky.social•149 days ago

Mesmerising. Being able to sing the dissonant tonalities must be tricky, as you always being pulled towards a resolution. Gorgeous stuff!

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•150 days ago

Ugh. *David Willcocks'

Rogue apostrophe. By which I mean, I put it in the wrong place.

jo42.bsky.social•150 days ago

Thank you. Really enjoyed that.

thehames.bsky.social•150 days ago

Thank you. I send these to my Mum and they’re making her cry. In a good way.

annadavidson.bsky.social•150 days ago

Me too! Not you? 😁

clairecopperman.bsky.social•151 days ago

That's beautiful, Chris. Thank you.

wfergie.bsky.social•152 days ago

Thank you Chris. Made my day!

barryspinnaker.bsky.social•153 days ago

Maria’s vaggvisa? Are you sure that’s not blue?

thehames.bsky.social•153 days ago

That’s remarkably beautiful.

shedonedistillery.bsky.social•152 days ago

That's a bit blinkin' gorgeous! 💚

jrubba.bsky.social•153 days ago

Stunning

troyella.bsky.social•146 days ago

So lovely. ❤️

gnickod.bsky.social•140 days ago

Wonderful.

davidpeirson.bsky.social•152 days ago

Another great selection, I'm sure. Do you know this one?

jannieber.bsky.social•151 days ago

📌

jon-chamberlain.bsky.social•153 days ago

And a Spotify playlist? Or am I being greedy?

samtw.bsky.social•148 days ago

Beautiful series, thanks Chris!

mirthematician.bsky.social•144 days ago

📌

operabunny.bsky.social•130 days ago

📌

alisonjc.bsky.social•143 days ago

Thank you for doing this. Beautiful music

alisonterry.bsky.social•149 days ago

📌

tinareynolds.bsky.social•135 days ago

📌

thornfieldhall.bsky.social•138 days ago

📌

clairecopperman.bsky.social•153 days ago

So happy to see you're doing this here, Chris: it's one of the highlights of my Advent. And what a glorious one to start with.

timpopkid.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com•153 days ago

I like this idea quite a bit and am a big fan of seasonal and holiday music. Would you consider it blatant thievery if I made one of these in an attempt to delight my dozens of followers? Mine is likely to be stupider than yours.

mrchrisaddison.bsky.social•153 days ago

I don't think I can claim any ownership to the idea of advent calendars, much as it would be financially very beneficial to do so. Have at it.

timpopkid.ibuywaytoomanyrecords.com•153 days ago

Thanks, I’m just trying to be polite and not rip you off too blatantly.