Christmas Playlist Suggestions
Hey y’all! My
apologies for the gap in blog posts these past few weeks. Is this seriously my first December
post? Yikes! Anyway… I hope you are enjoying the Christmas
season thus far. I am just loving it! Today I’d like to share some of that Christmas joy with you by giving you a few Christmas song suggestions to check out and perhaps include on
your Christmas playlist this season.
These are all songs I personally love, enjoy, and would recommend.
In the First Light by GLAD. This is one of my all-time favorite
Christmas songs. We can rejoice because
we know that HE IS COMING AGAIN!
O Come, All Ye Faithful by Dan
Forrest. I played a
duet piano accompaniment of this choral piece with our main church
pianist. It was SO FUN. I just love this arrangement!
What Child is This? / Mary, Did you Know? Erhu/harp
duet. Since I play and love one of
the coolest exotic instruments that there is and that instrument happens to be
in this video, of course I love it! :) I
would love to do a duet of these two songs with a harpist one day.
O Come, O Come Emmanuel by The Piano
Guys. I mean, who DOESN’T like
this song?! This is such a beautiful
arrangement.
Jesus! The Advent of the Messiah by Mary McDonald
and Rose Aspinall. My church choir used this Christmas
choral book for our main Christmas program last year and although there were
one of two pieces we did not use (I cannot say whether or not I would recommend
those), I fell in love with so much of the music we did sing. My specific favorites are The Gathering (3:57) and He is Born (16:45). We also did Overture/Christmas Gloria, All is
Calm, There is Room, and Jesus! High and Holy One! Again, I cannot personally recommend any of
the others in this book because I have not listened to/sung those.
ALSO, I can’t wait to share with you all a YouTube video soon
of a Christmas piano arrangement I have learned for this Christmas. So keep a lookout for that sometime soon! ;)
I’d love to hear from you!
What are
some of your favorite Christmas songs/pieces?
Have you
heard any of the above listed songs before?
Those all sound neat, I've heard those just not by those groups! =) I'm so excited for Christmas, my favorite Christmas songs are by TobyMac, For King and Country, Mandisa and others! I'm looking forward to your Christmas YouTube video, I really enjoyed your first one! :D
ReplyDeleteThat's cool you've heard of so many of those songs, although by different authors/arrangers/groups! I'm so glad you enjoyed my first YouTube video. I will have the next one up as soon as I can :) Merry Christmas!
DeleteThanks for sharing these! I really enjoyed all of them, but I especially liked "What Child is This/Mary did you know?", "Angels We Have Heard on High", all of the songs I heard from "Jesus! The Advent of the Messiah" (although I didn't listen to all of them - most of them though, I think.)
ReplyDeleteCan't wait for your next youtube video!!!
Of course, you're welcome! I'm super glad you enjoyed these, Grace! :)
DeleteI CAN'T WAIT for your next YouTube video! :D Seriously I'm so excited!
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite Christmas songs is O Holy Night :)
Thank you! I put the video up last night ;)
DeleteAh, O Holy Night is so pretty!! <3
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DeleteThe Oh Hellos’ Family Christmas Album!
ReplyDeleteThank you for the suggestion, Elizabeth!
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