I ran across this YouTube of Yo-Yo Ma and Alison Krauss teaming up on a traditional Christmas carol. It’s interesting and lovely because her voice is out front, and the instrumental accompaniment is quite understated. And it is Yo-Yo Ma, after all.
Please share the holiday music you like! (Let’s try to keep a balance between gag songs and actual fine music.)
I spent a couple of hours this afternoon hanging Christmas lights. Through most of that time I could not get that mindless Paul McCartney song, “Wonderful Christmas Time,” out of my head.
That said, I have to say the coolest Christmas song arrangement ever to me is Mannheim Steamroller’s version of, “Silent Night.” So good it can bring me to tears if I’m in the right frame of mind.
The Yo Yo Ma and Alison Krauss duet appears on the album Songs of Joy and Peace that Yo Yo Ma performs with a number of pop stars (James Taylor on Here Comes the Sun, for example).
But here is the greatest Christmas Carol ever recorded, profound in its evocation of the importance of the season