GIVEAWAY HAS ENDED!!
Christmas music is filling our house! I love this time of year when there are so many arrangements and variations of familiar Christmas songs available. For my birthday, my parents gave me a new Christmas CD, NOEL: Carols of Christmas Past, by Jenny Oaks Baker. It is lovely! Some of my favorite Christmas songs are on this CD: We Three Kings, In the Bleak Midwinter, and O Come, O Come, Emmanuel.
Not only does the CD feature the breathtaking violin of Jenny Oaks Baker, but it also features more ancient instruments like the lute, kora, and dulcimer. These bring a European folksy style to the arrangements. There are also guest artist appearances by Alex Sharpe, formerly of the group Celtic Woman, and Kitka, a Women’s Vocal Ensemble from Europe. I love Kitka’s contribution to Patapan!
Alex Sharpe recorded a music video with Jenny Oaks Baker for the song Silent Night, which Sharpe sings in Irish Gaelic.
Beautiful, isn’t it? Guess what? I enjoy this CD so much I’m giving one away courtesy of Deseret Book! To enter just tell me your favorite Christmas song in the comments. Simple as that.
Silent Night is probably my favorite, but I like them all! 🙂
Beautiful! Thank you so much for sharing!
“Christmas in the Country” by the Gaither Vocal Band and Silent Night (seriously it is my favorite!). 😀
Blessings!
~Miss Rachel~
“I heard the bells on Christmas day” is one I really like. Hard to pick one!
Judi 🙂
Oh, gosh, I don’t know if I can choose! I guess I would go with Silent Night 🙂
I don’t think I can pick one favorite christmas song. There are just too many and every year I learn new ones. I am definitely a traditionalist though and prefer the traditional carols and songs to the new ones that come out.
One favorite is “Oh come, oh come Emmanuel” too! It’s so haunting and thoughtful.
I love Away in a Manger, especially when sung in Spanish. 🙂
My favorite Christmas song is White Christmas sung by Bing Crosby.
There are many, many to choose from!! Carol of the Bells is definitely high on my list!
Christmas music is my very favorite. I don’t know if I could choose a favorite. My husband and I attend a Chanticleer concert every year. It has a become a special tradition for us.
Jesus is Alive by Josh Wilson is my absolute favorite since I heard it last November!
White Christmas! 🙂
Angels We Have Heard on High! And Carol of the Bells! 🙂
If I have to choose a favorite, I guess it’s O Holy Night. I also love Jenny Oaks Baker. She is so talented and pretty. Thanks for the giveaway!
Carol of the Bells
Joy to the World!!
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I can’t choose my favorite song to listen to, but my favorite to sing is Oh Come, All Ye Faithful.
Wow, this is beautiful! My current fave is O Holy Night.
I love O Holy Night. Thanks!
Lately, the hymn that most moves my soul is Mary, Did you Know? I think hearing about one mother’s everyday occurrences with such a special child is making me think more humbly about the role I play in the lives of my own children.
My favorite song is Silent Night, but I love them all! I have her other Christmas CD and love it, I am excited to listen to this one as well!
I love Carol of the Bells.
Ooh that looks like such a great CD! I’ve been wanting something new this year. I love a 4 part women’s version of “In the Bleak Midwinter” that I sang with a little group called the Cinnamon Creek Folk Singers back in Brigham City, UT. I got to play my little harp on it and the harmonies are SO pretty!
O holy night. And oh how I yearn to sound like Jenny every time I pick up my violin!
Gesu Bambino!
Oh my gosh, I want this CD SO BAD!!! I have been dying for it. Please little randomizer, randomize in my favor!
My favorite Christmas song is Christmas Canon by Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I just love it so much. But I also love Angels We Have Heard on High, Riu Riu Chiu, and O Come O Come Emmanuel. I love the slower, traditional Christmas songs rather than the Jingle Bell junk. Blech.
How Far is it to Bethlehem.
I love Carol of the Bells. It reminds me of Home Alone (ha!) and it think it’s fun and exciting.
I love Mary Did You Know? because my dad used to sing it to us while playing the guitar. So beautiful.
That was so beautiful and peaceful. Thank you for sharing. My favorite Christmas carol is “Away in the Manager”. I especially love the version in the Primary songbook with the asleep chorus.
I’d love to have this for my daughter who is learning the violin right now.
My favorite christmas song is “Room in the Inn”. It’s a beautiful choir number with a great message and if you haven’t heard it, you should definitely check it out.
It’s so hard to pick a favorite Christmas song! I do love John Rutter’s “What Sweeter Music.” Jenny Oaks Baker is amazing. I’d love to own her Christmas CD! Love your blog!
White Christmas. It is just so classic. I also love Joy to the World. Or listening to my children sing “I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas.” Can’t beat it.
Thank you for sharing that beautiful video. Silent Nighti is my favorite.
I LOVE Hilary Weeks, First Lullaby/Silent Night. I can picture Mary on that night gazing in her newborn sons eyes and all the feelings she must have had! Oh how I love, love, love Christmas music!!
I love Christmas music! Not sure what my favorite is but I love Drummer Boy
Christmas music is beautiful, add the violin with a talented musician like Jenny Oaks Baker and WOW:) The First Noel is my favorite Christmas hymn.
You reminded me why I love Christmas music so much! That video was awesome. I loved singing Silent Night in Polish for my recital in college. (Sally Deford has a wonderful arrangement.) I am realizing that I really need to add to my Christmas music collection. As for a favorite, that is so hard. The first one that comes to mind for me is Coventry Carol. However, just now I read about it on Wikipedia and read the lyrics and learned what it was about, and it makes me so sad! My other favorite is What Child is This, but that has a sad part too. Guess I’m a little melancholy in my music choices. Best Church choir piece though has got to be Star of Bethlehem-Shine for Me Again.
My favorite is Angels We Have Heard on High. It’s just fun to sing!
The Christmas Song/Pinecones and Hollyberries
Once in Royal David’s City
I love Silent Night – traditional but beautiful!
I, too, am a traditionalist when it comes to Christmas music. No Rudolph or Jingle Bells for me. But I love Silent Night, Angles We Have Heard on High, and O Holy Night. I also love Once in Royal David’s City. I think my favorite non-hymn Christmas song is Still, Still, Still. So many to choose from! Great giveaway!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful music with all of us. I’ve seen it advertised but had not heard any selections until now. So peaceful and during this time of year that is very hard to come by! I needed this today. ONE of my favorites is Good King Wenceslas because it tells such a Christ-like story of service.
I think it is impossible to pick just one favorite – but the first that comes to mind is “Mary, Did You Know”. I really love that one!
I love Silent Night. For me this is where the true meaning of Christmas can be felt.
Silent Night is mine also. Love it. Love all of them
“Mary, Did You Know” is my favorite. Gorgeous song, wonderful lyrics!
I just found “Bring the Torch Jeanette Isabella” on Youtube yesterday to play for my husband because he’d never heard it. It’s not my favorite, but I did always think it was cool when I was little because it had my name in it.
Honestly, how can anyone choose ONE favorite???? Christmas music is the best of the best. I do totally love the “Glorias” of “Angels We Have Heard on High.” Annie Lennox did a cool arrangement using that melody with the words to “Angels from the Realms of Glory.” -Sasha
O Holy Night is definitely my favorite! I’ve seen Jennie Oaks Baker and TOFW and she was fabulous! Thanks for the giveaway!
I’ll be home for Christmas! Favorite 🙂
My favorite is definitely “Oh Come, Oh Come Emmanuel.”
I love “Ave Maria” and “Mary Did You Know”.
Joy to the World is #1 with Silent Night a very close 2nd 🙂
Merry Christmas!
I love Christmas music and this sounds delightful! One of my favorites is “In The Bleak Mid Winter.”
Beautiful! “O Come, O Come, Emmanuel” is my favorite.
I have always loved silent night. But all Christmas music that is centered on our Savior holds a special place in my heart.
My favorite Christmas hymn is “What Child is This” I have loved it ever since I heard it the first time.
I am really in love with “The Little Drummer Boy”
I love Christmas music…so hard to pick just one! But, if I had to pick one it would probably be The First Noel (maybe becuase my daughter
s name is Noel!:)
I love Angels we have Heard on High.
O Holy Night. My absolute favorite song, no matter the singer.
O holy night … Carol of the bells … God bless your way … Joy to the world.
Goodness! How’s a girl to choose??
My favorite Christmas songs are O Holy Night and Breath of Heaven (Amy Grant) .
My favorite is Away in a Manger
I love Away in a Manger!
My favorite song is O Holy Night.
My favorite is I Heard the Bells Christmas Day…but I also LOVE In the Bleak Midwinter…
Christmas music. Christmas music is my favorite. I have to pick ONE song? ….um, Oh Holy Night.
O come all ye faithful…in Latin. So pretty!
While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night (arr. Sally Deford)
Sleigh Ride (instrumental) is my favorite Christmas song, in general. But my favorite hymn is Angels We Have Heard on High. 🙂
go tell it on the mountain. reminds me to always share the joy of jesus.
It is so hard to choose just one, but I really love O Come, O Come, Emmanuel!
I love Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella!
I love Bring a Torch Jeannette, Isabella!
I’ve got so many favorites right now, but I’ll say for right now it’s a toss up between Steve Erquiaga’s acoustic rendition of Angels We Have Heard on High and the Lower Lights rendition of Stars of Glory.
I love Mary Did you Know by Kenny Rogers and Wynnona Judd. I also love the Transsyberian Orchestra On This Very Christmas Night.
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My favorite Christmas song is either O Holy Night by Michael Crawford or the First Noel to Pachabel’s Canon
One of my favorites is I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day. It isn’t sung very often but I still enjoy the reminder, that even when the holidays can be hard (separation from family, job loss, etc., etc.,) and you aren’t really feeling the spirit, the reason for the season is still the same (and much more than just presents).
I LOVElove Jenny Oaks Baker! My young family has enjoyed listening to her talent in our home for several years now. I was privileged to hear her perform Live, when her first Christmas CD (O Holy Night) debuted. I appreciated that every song on this CD was about our Savior; the true purpose of Christmas. It is from this, I share one of my most favorite Christmas songs, the French carol ‘Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle’. (Beautiful music and meaningful words!!)
My favorite Christmas song is Still, Still, Still! Thanks for all that you share on your blog.
Joy To The World is my favorite!
My favorite Christmas song is “Oh Holy Night.” Thanks for the opportunity to win!