Hi All,
I'm just wondering whether you have any recommendation book for christmas songs introduction.
I've heard Sir David Willcocks recording, the introduction is very majestic, but not sure there it's published.
Regards,
Kevin
Hi All,
I'm just wondering whether you have any recommendation book for christmas songs introduction.
I've heard Sir David Willcocks recording, the introduction is very majestic, but not sure there it's published.
Regards,
Kevin
I received
Fourteen Introductions on Christmas Carols for Organ by Jerry Westenkuehler
H.W. Gray/Warner Bros. GBM0101
as a gift some years ago.
Comments after each. * means that I abbreviate them - they are a bit long for me. No comment means setting for one manual. Most are quite usable. We don't have any 12 tone harmonies, either.
Joy to the World [Antioch] - Chimes
Good Christian Frends, Rejoice [German Carol]
Adeste Fideles
Angels We Have Heard on High [Gloria]*
Angels from the Realms of Glory [Regent Square]
Go tell it on the mountain
The First Noel*
Silent night, Holy night - sweet! - 4' flute tremmed/celestes
It Came upon the midnight clear [Carol] - solo reed in tenor
Hark the Herald Angels Sing [Mendelssohn]*
O lIttle Town of Bethlehem [St. Louis]
We Three Kings [Kings of Orient] - solo reed in tenor
Once in Royal David's City [Irby] - solo reed
What Child is This? [Greensleeves] - solo reed