Kicking off my Christmas Countdown of 10 favourite Christmas songs and hymns (shared in no particular order), I’m delighted to present Handel’s magnificent “Hallelujah Chorus” from Messiah. This festive journey will carry us right up to Christmas Eve. Hallelujah has…
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Hallelujah (From Handel’s Messiah) – Christmas Countdown No. 10
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Messiah (1741) – George Frideric Handel
The Messiah is the second composition from George Frideric Handel to feature here. The previous was the exquisite opening aria from his 1738 opera Serse also known as Ombra mai fu and Largo from Xerxes or Handel’s Largo. The Messiah premiered…
Hallelujah (1984) – Leonard Cohen (Rufus Wainwright version)
Adam (Leonard Cohen’s son) tells the story of an amusing moment between Cohen and perhaps his closest creative peer, Bob Dylan. “A lot of people have made the comparison between Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen over the years and there’s…
Leonard Cohen’s ‘Come Healing’ and 5 Other Contemporary Spiritual Masterpieces
As far as musical sub-genres go, contemporary-spiritual music doesn’t get its just-deserts! Heck, we might have got into the weeds professing our love for folk-rock and alternative seattle music, but when did you ever hear people spout on about ‘contemporary-spiritual…
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