Holiday Music

Something to “feast your ears on” over the holiday break, try this album by Miro Quartet. It is full of interesting string quartet arrangements where they gave various composers free reign to do what they wanted. It includes some lesser known Christmas tunes and even a long mash up of famous melodies entitled “Songs of Christmas Past" which starts with Handel’s Hallelujah theme, and moves through different carols and the Nutracker, and more Classical themes.

And, additionally, I once put out an short album of strangely altered Christmas material where the recognizable melodies are often barely there, or hidden, or perhaps changed from major to minor and made into a Tango like this first track. If I were to do a Christmas album now it might be a little more straight ahead, but this was fun and I thought the students might enjoy hearing it.