Christmas DVDs
There’s a reason that your local public broadcasting station has been airing some of these great Christmas videos each year – they’re great Christmas videos, with the music performed by some of the best a cappella groups out there! The difference between watching them on PBS and on DVD/video, of course, is that with these, you can watch them over and over, and back up to those particularly delicious moments that make Christmas music so popular. Christmas music, performed by some of the top jazz, barbershop and choral groups – you love their year-‘round stuff, now enjoy the holidays with them, year-‘round.
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Opening Credits Put a Little Love In Your Heart Santa Claus is Coming to Town When it Snows Audience Greetings Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland I Wonder As I Wander Do You Hear What I Hear One Small Child / We 3 Kings Frosty The Snowman Audience Greeting 2 I Bought You a Plastic Star (For Your Aluminum Tree) Pure Imagination / White Christmas Lean On Me All Wrapped Up Love Train |
The Blenders have been performing a series of very successful Christmas concerts for many years and now we finally have a chance to see for ourselves what makes the shows so popular. Neither all a cappella nor just Christmas songs the concert is nevertheless a real treat for Blenders fans who enjoy their wonderful harmonies and a blend that can only come after many years of singing together. The all a cappella "Hark The Herald Angel Sings" and "I Wonder As I Wander" are particular treats on this enjoyable live performance footage.
| 2409 DVD $29.95 |
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Its the Most Wonderful Time of the Year Carold of the Bells Happy Holidays - Its the Holiday Season The Christmas Song Jingle Bells White Christmas The Twelve Days of Christmas The First Noel - Angels We Have Heard on High - Joy to the World Hanukkah Medley (featuring Vocal Spectrum) Veni, Veni Emmanuel (O Come, O Come Emmanuel) It Came Upon a Midnight Clear Do You Hear What I Hear O Holy Night (featuring Vocal Spectrum) Alleluia Betelehemu Little Drummer Boy Hallelujah Chorus Amen (featuring RD Mathey) Silent Night |
2007 International Silver medalist Chorus (and 2004 International Champions) The Ambassadors of Harmony are an extremely talented 160 voice chorus who really shine under the direction the the very highly regarded director Jim Henry, the bass singers of the International Champion quartet The Gas House Gang. Here we see them perform one of their entertaining live Christmas concerts which was filmed in Touhill Performing Arts Center in St. Louis. A well-produced film which captures the spirit of the season along with both the power and gentleness of such a large male chorus. Includes a special guest appearance from Vocal Spectrum. Recommended.
| 5768 DVD $19.95 |
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Joy To The World Come To Save The World Baby King Adeste Fideles Ay Ay Ay It's Christmas We Owe Them More Than That On This Christmas Night King Of Glory Santa Bring Me My Baby Back To Me Up On The Housetop Chances Long Black Train 29 Ways To My Baby's Door Nuttin' For Christmas Silent Night God Rest Ye Merry Genltmen Little Drummer Boy Grace |
Recorded live from Minneapolis's Orchestra Hall at the culmination of one of their always-sold-out Christmas concerts this DVD finds the award-winning a cappella group returning to its musical roots to deliver what the Pioneer Press calls "..an event as much a party as a concert." "A fine blend, a driving sense of rhythm, and a pitch that's right on target", this DVD puts you front row at the holiday event where Tonic Sol-fa, "…filled the air with a marvelous variety of musical textures."
| 1220 DVD $19.95 |
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Happy Holiday Let it Snow Christmas Love Song Santa Claus is Coming To Town White Christmas Sleigh Ride It Came Across A Midnight Clear Caroling, Caroling Good King Wencesslas Christmas Is Coming Snow Fall Merry Christmas Baby Santa Baby The Christmas Song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Operator Happy Holiday (Reprise) Goodnight |
What’s better than hearing Manhattan Transfer sing our favorite holiday tunes? Seeing them sing those holiday tunes, LIVE! Thanks to the awesome sound and picture quality of this DVD, you can watch the internationally acclaimed quartet spread Christmas cheer in your very own living room. It's like having your very own personal concert. All 11 tracks from their earlier CD release, 'The Christmas Album' are presented as well as four solo songs (one for each member of the group). Also included, in the bonus features, is an rare interview with the group, sharing their individual backgrounds, their secret to success, and insight on how they learn their music as a group. This DVD is sure to become a Holiday Treasure and is not to be missed!
| 4634 DVD $24.98 |
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Of The Father's Love Begotten In Dolci Jubilo O Magnum Mysterium Sa Qui Turo Zente Pleta Rosa Das Rosas Riu, Riu chiu A Christmas Round: Today The Virgin, Village Wedding The Holly And The Ivy A Virgin Unspotted Ave Maria Star Of Wonder We Three Kings The First Nowell In The Bleak Mid-Winter A Medley Of Christmas Spirituals Rise Up Shepard And Follow Behold That Star Oh, What A Pretty Little Baby Oh Jerusalem In the Morning Christmas Time Is Here |
Known especially for their dazzling and evocative Christmas programs, Chanticleer's acclaimed 2002 PBS special CHRISTMAS WITH CHANTICLEER: AN ORCHESTRA OF VOICES features bonus material not heard on the original broadcast. The songs are all Chanticleer audience favorites, from early English hymns to Franz Biebl's enchanting "Ave Maria", John Tavener's "A Christmas Round" holiday standards such as "The First Nowell", and Vince Guaraldi's timeless, "Christmas Time Is Here." Filmed at the Metropolitan Museum's famed Medieval Sculpture Hall.
| 7053 DVD $18.98 |
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O come, O come Emmanuel King Jesus hath a Garden The Holly and the Ivy Once in Royal David's city Stille Nacht Personet Hodie In Dulci Jubilo While Shepards Watched their Flocks by Night O come, all ye Faithfull Coventry Carol God rest you Merry, Gentlemen Hark! The Herald Angels Sing |
Enjoy this top-notch choir and get in the Christmas mood by both watching and listening to some wonderful singing directed by Timothy Brown. Filmed at St. Edmundsbury Cathedral, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England
| 7965 DVD $14.98 |
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Once in royal David's city Quem pastores laudavere In dulci jubilo Angels from the realms of glory In the bleak mid-winter Quittez, pasteurs While shepherds watched Silent Night The Shepherd's Carol The Angels and the Shepherds Riu, riu, chiu O little town of Bethlehem The Shepherds' Farewell I wonder as I wander Small wonder the star Sussex Carol Gloria in excelsis Deo God rest ye merry gentlemen Hark! the herald angels sing |
The world famous Christmas Eve service, presented by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, is brought to us in a format it was destined to be seen on - DVD. This widescreen BBC presentation is a dazzling display that is sure to be enjoyed by any who appreciate both watching and listening to christmas choral music. Some memoralable moments include the opening boy soprano solo if "One in royal David's city," the big choir sound of "Silent Night," the fast-pased "Riu, Riu Chiu" which is sure to put a smile on your face and the beautiful soothing melody of "I Wonder As I Wander." Also, the finale, "Hark The Herald Angels Sing." Along with the pristine DVD transfer of the service, those who buy this DVD will also be treated to the first televised service, recorded in 1954, as well as giving you the option of viewing only the musical portions of the service, excluding the readings. Also, a booklet detailing the history of the service, lyrics to all songs and a 30 minute conversation between Sir David Wilcox, Sir Philip Ledger and Stephen Cleobury, the three Directors of Music at King's Collefge since 1957.
| 7351 DVD $24.98 |
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Fantasia On O Come, O Come Emmanuel Watchman, Tell Us Of The Night O Come Al Ye Faithful Gesu Bambino Advent Motet People Look East There Is No Rose Lo, How A Rose E'Er Blooming Ary's Wonder Lux Aurumque He IS Born Jesus Jesus Rest Your Head Sanctus (From Mass) Hodie Christus Natus Est Mary Had A Baby O Day Full Of Grace Carol Of The Drum We Three Kings Of Orient Are Mothering God, You Gave Me Birth Ring Out Ye Crystal Spheres From Hodie Compline |
With almost 20,000 attendees at their annual Christmas series of concerts and the airing on PBS television and radio stations across the nation has certainly made the Concordia Choir a great Christmas tradition for many. The 400 voices celebrates the birth of Jesus Christ with some spectacular arrangements including "Gesu Bambino" and the title track "O Come All Ye Faithful". Two new compositions by director Rene Clausen, who has over the 26 years he has been directing the choir become world-renown, are superb. Always top-notch this choir continues to build upon it's already excellent reputation.
| 8463 DVD $24.98 |
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Prelude On How Brightly Shines the Morning Star (J. Robert Hanson) Of the Father's Love Begotten Angels We Have Heard On High (arr. Rene Clausen) O Holy Night (arr. Rene Clausen) There Is No Rose of Such Virtue (Christopher Brown) Light Everlasting (Oloaf Christiansen) Lost In the Night (arr. F. Melius Christiansen) Light One Candle to Watch for Messiah (arr. Wayne Wold) Vene Sanctus Spiritus (Jacques Berthier) All My Heart This Night Rejoices (arr. Ralph Johnson) Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day (arr. John Rutter) He Is Born (arr. Donna Gartman Schultz) Before the Marvel of this Night (arr. Carl Schalk) Good Christian Friends, Rejoice! (arr. Paul Nesheim) Calm On the Listening Ear of Night (Kenneth Jennings) Twelfth Night (Samuel Barber) How Great Our Joy (arr. John Rutter) Nowell Sing We, Both All and Some (Raymond Monelle) Infant Holy, Infant Lowly (arr. Paul J. Christiansen) Sussex Carol (arr. Philip M. Young) Jeg er saa glad (arr. Paul Nesheim) Go, Tell It On the Mountain (arr. Carolyn Jennings) Psalm 150 (Alberto Ginstera) Joy To the World (arr. Charles Fosberg) Comline (arr. Rene Clausen) |
On the cover of “O Holy Night” we see an awesome giant Christmas mural, with the huge Concordia Choir in front of it, and The Concordia Orchestra in the foreground. This massive Christmas celebration has been an annual event for many years, and it just keeps getting bigger and better. 24 songs, with spoken parts, all accompanied, some familiar (“Angels We Have Heard On High,” “O Holy Night,” “Joy to the World”), some unfamiliar ( “Of the Father’s Love Begotten,” “Light One Candle to Watch for Messiah,” “Calm on the Listening Ear of Night”), but together in sequence they magnificently tell the Christmas story. “O Holy Night” is a triumph, one of the best of the year!
| 6824 DVD $24.98 |
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Navidad Nuestra Ritsch Ratsch Filibom Oh, Mi Belen! El Desembre Congelat Alegria A La Nanita Nana Las Posadas Campana sobre Campana El Belen Tocan a Fuego El Noi de la Mare Chiquirrquitin El Rorro Away In A Manger A Wealden Trio The Souling Song Christmas Song Christmas In The Southwest La Trulla Betelehemu |
The Choral Excellence Series has joined legendary choral conductor and arranger Robert De Cormier to produce a A Counterpoint Christmas -- a fanciful journey around the world during the holiday season. Selections include familiar and less-familiar melodies and carols from around the world ending with the splendid suite of Argentinean Carols, Navidad Nuestra, by Ariel Ramirez. This beautifully-produced DVD will put you in the spirit of the season while presenting a unique collection of exciting Christmas music. If you are looking for something new this holiday season, a Counterpoint Christmas will be a great selection.
| 3033 DVD $17.95 |
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We Need A Little Christmas It's The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year Sleigh Ride Silver Ride Silver Bells Medley: We Wish You A Merry Christmas/Deck The Halls/Jingle Winter Wonderland Medley: Jolly Old St. Nicholas/Up On Top Of The House Christmas Morning Medley: O Come All Ye Faithful/ Joy To The World/Hark, The Herald Angels Sing Away In A Manger Silent Night Mary's Boy Child The Little Drummer Boy One Solitary Life O, Holy Night It Feels Like Christmas The Christmas Song The 12 Days Of Christmas White Christmas |
From The Opening "We Need A Little Christmas" to the ending song, "White Christmas", The Letterman present a heartfelt program of songs from Christmas past and present. Combining their close harmonies with traditional and updated arrangements this concert is abundant with holiday cheer. The audience seems to enjoy the recognizable songs, and the new ones and in several instances sings along. The first half of the show is given over to secular songs and the second to more religious minded themed carols. Whatever the song the Lettermen deliver them in a sound that has become identifiable with them over the years. This concert is family fare to be shared year after year.
| 4745 DVD $14.98 |
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Nimrod Fanfare For A Festival For Unto Us A Child Is Born O Come, All Ye Faithful Gloria As Lately We Watched Mbiri Kuna Mwari Chichester Psalms Cantemos A Maria Candle Light Carol Sing Nowell Sing Gloria All My Heart This Night Rejoices Wake Awake Vom Himmel Hoch Agincourt Song O Magnum Mysterium A Christmas Alleluia Still Still Still Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day Epilogue Jerusalem Infant Holy Infant Lowly Silent Night |
The magnificent 4-day Christmas Festival at Decorah, IA's Luther College tells the story of Christmas in song and narration, and features the 85-member Symphony Orchestra and hundreds of members of Luther's Nordic Choir, Pike Kor, Cathedral Choir, Norsemen and Cantorei. 26 cuts, all accompanied: "For Unto Us A Child Is Born" from Handel's "Messiah," Leonard Bernstein's dramatic "Chichester Psalms," John Rutter's "Candlelight Carol," Bach's "Gloria," the joyous "Cantemos a Maria"–it's all wonderful!
| 8352 DVD $21.98 |
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Prelude: Christmas at Luther Arise your light has Come Joy to the World Light Everlasting Verbum caro factum est Ring Out, Wild Bells! Run, Ye Shepherds, To The Light Nowel Rocking Carol And The Glory Of The Lord Come And Behold O Magnum Mysterium De Mornin’ Come Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head The First Nowell Hope For Resolution Postlude: Intoduction to Luther College |
Festive music, robed choristers and glowing candlelight capture the wonder and joy of the Christma season. "Christmas at Luther" features over 500 singers and the 85-member Symphony Orchestra of Luther College. Lots of fabulous singing here under the direction of Weston Noble and this Iowa Public Television production certainly gets you in the mood for a Nordic Christmas! 63 minutes running time.
| 7961 DVD $21.98 |
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O Come All Ye Faithful O Little Town of Bethlehem Joy To The World Carol of the Birds Angels We Have Heard On High O Tannenbaum The First Noel Lippai / Upon The Mountain Jingle Bells Silent Night Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Pueri Concinite Joy To The World God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen The Little Drummer Boy O Du Frohiche O Heiland Reiss Die Himmel Auf Es Hat Sich Halt Eroffnet Ihr Kinderlein Kommet Silent Night Von Himmel Hoch Good King Wenceslas Deck The Halls Adeste Fideles Still, Still, Still |
What a holiday treat - two world-class choirs on one DVD! First enjoy the majesty that is the Mormon Tabernacle Choir annual Christmas concert when the full choir fills the Tabernacle in Salt Lake City with joyous Christmas music. Beautifully filmed and beautifully sung - You will be watching fot many holidays to come. The second part of the DVD contains an almost all a cappella film featuring the Vienna Boys as they prepare for and enact the annual Christmas pagent in the historic Augarten Castle in Vienna, Austria.
| 7953 DVD $14.98 |
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The Song of Peace - Olaf C. Christiansen Messiah, Prince of Peace (Trinity Canticles) - Daniel Kallmen Love Divine, All Loves Excelling - John Ferguson For Unto Us A Child is Born (Messiah) - George Friedrich Handel In Terra Pax (Excerpt) - Gerald Finzi Before the Marvel of this Night - Carl Schalk Gloria - Olaf Gjeilo In Thee is Gladness - Giovanni G. Gastoldi The Christmastide (Jessye's Carol) - Donald Fraser -Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Felix Hendelssohn Bartholdy Noel! -Stecen Sametz Ding, Dong! Merrily on High - Felix Hendelssohn Bartholdy Glories Ring - Steven Amundson Carols for the Choirs: He Came Down tha We May Have Love - John Ferguson Carols for the Choirs: Love Has Come - F. Seguin Carols for the Choirs: On Christmas Night - English Traditional Carols for the Choirs: Toda La Tierra (All Earth Is Hopeful) - Alberto Taule Carols for the Choirs: Jeg er Sa Glad (I Am So Glad) - Peder Knudsen Carols for the Choirs: Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Silent Night, Holy Night) - Franz Gruber Joy to the World - Lowel Mason And God Said: One Day Shall Dawn (King David) - Arthur Honegger Beautiful Savior - F. Melius Christiansen |
F. Melius Christiansen, founder of the Music Department at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, planned and directed the first St. Olaf Christmas Festival in 1912. Over the next 96 years the Festival has grown to include, as individual groups and as a massed ensemble, the St. Olaf Choir, the St. Olaf Orchestra, the St. Olaf Cantorei, The Manitou Singers and the Viking Chorus and Chapel Choir. The result of the coming together of all this huge and joyous talent easily fills two CDs, 30 pieces with some narration that tell the story of Christmas, beginning with the all-instrumental "Messiah, Prince of Peace" and ending with F. Melius' gorgeous "Beautiful Savior." It's hard to pick favorites, but "For Unto Us a Child is Born" from Handel's "Messiah," Steven Sametz' "Noel!," Carl Schalk's "Before the Marvel of This Night," Donald Fraser's "This Christmastide" (Jessye's Carol), the 6-part medley "Carols for the Choirs" arranged by John Ferguson, F. Melius' lovely "Lullaby on Christmas Eve" and Arthur Honegger's "And God Said: One Day Shall Dawn" (King David) come easily to mind.
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Canticles Of Light O Come All Ye Faithful Lux Aurumque O Helga Natt True Light Juleverset O Yule, Full Of Grace Jeg er sa' glad hver Julekveld Carol Of The Bells Lullyby On Christmas Eve Our Father Hope For Resolution Hark! The Herald Angels Sing Stay With Us Beautiful Savior Light Everlasting Et Barn Er Fodt I Bethlehem Julemotet Geistliches Wiegenlied Op. 91 no. 2 Jeg Er Verdens Lys O Day Full Of Grace |
This special is the seventh in a popular series of PBS holiday concerts that have featured the St. Olaf Choir. The Christmas concert commemorates the centennial of Norway's independence and the cultural roots of St. Olaf College, founded in 1874 by Norwegian Lutheran immigrants. Singing in the majestic, 900-year-old Trondheim Cathedral was a highlight for the internationally known St. Olaf Choir, which has performed in prestigious music venues around the world since its founding in 1912 by F. Melius Christiansen, a Norwegian immigrant. Christiansen established the choir's distinctive style of a cappella singing, a tradition carried on today by artistic director and conductor-and St. Olaf College alumnus-Anton Armstrong.
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Adagio (Enigma Variations) (Edward Elgar) Light Everlasting (Olaf C. Christiansen) Keep Your Lamps (arr. Andre Thomas) There Shall A Star (Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy) Lost in the Night (arr. Kyle Haugen) Pilgrim's Hymn (Stephen Paulus) Adam Lay Ybounden (Richard Webster) All This Night (Robert Scholz) Mary Speaks (Daniel Gawthrop) Gloria (Jeffrey Rickard) What Child (Paul Lohman) Midnight Clear (Russell Schultz-Widmar, arr. Robert Scholz) Come to the Cradle (Cathy and Laura Conger, arr. Robert Scholz) The Song of Peace (Olaf C. Christiansen) The Little Light of Mine (arr. Moses Hogan) Oh, How Joyfully (Andrew Carter) Pat-A-Pan (Hershy Kay) Carols for Choir and Orchestra (arr. John Ferguson) O Day Full of Grace (Christoph E. F. Weyse, arr. F. Melius Christiansen) Dona Nobis Pacem (Ralph Vaughan Williams) Narration Stay With Us (Egil Howland) Beautiful Savior (arr. F. Melius Christiansen) |
The St. Olaf Choir was formed in 1911 by Dr. F Melius Christiansen, a Norwegian immigrant. So began a tradition of a cappella choral sacred music that remains strong and vital today. 23 pieces, such songs as Edward Elgar's "Adagio," Christiansen's "Light Everlasting," and "The Song Of Peace," Bartholdi's "There Shall Be A Star," Paulus' "Pilgrim's Hymn," Daniel Gawthrop's "Mary Speaks," Paul Lohman's "What Child," our friend Moses Hogan's arrangement of "This Little Light of Mine," Williams' "Dona Nobis Pacem," Hovland's "Stay With Us" and "Beautiful Savior." The music is that of angels, and the focus of this wonderful CD is what the holiday is all about, the birth of Christ. Excellent!
| 6768 DVD $24.98 |
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I'll Be Home For Christmas Caroling, Caroling Winter Wonderland (with Jeff Oxley, bass) White Christmas You're A Mean One Mr. Grinch (performed by Acoustix) Toyland Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow Christmas Time Is Here (with Steve DeCrow, tenor) I'll Be Home for Christmas O Come, All Ye Faithful Do You Hear What I Hear? Little Drummer Boy What Child Is This? O Holy Night Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah The Secret of Christmas I'll Be Home for Christmas (reprise) |
Experience the Vocal Majority Chorus, directed by Jim Clancy and Greg Clancy, in this hour-long DVD produced from live performances of their acclaimed Christmas concerts at the Dallas Convention Center. Acoustix and soloists Steve DeCrow and Jeff Oxley join the Chorus in a program destined to become a holiday favorite. Seventeen songs, some favorites: "Winter Wonderland" (with Jeff Oxley, bass), "YouÕre A Mean One, Mr. Grinch" (with Acoustix), "Christmas Time is Here" (with Steve DeCrow, tenor), "IÕll Be Home for Christmas," "Do You Hear What I Hear?," "Little Drummer Boy," "Hallelujah Chorus from Messiah," and "The Secret of Christmas." Now you can see as well as hear the best barbershop chorus in the world.
| 5606 DVD $19.98 |
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