Music for the Christmas Season / Earl L. Miller

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Audio Samples

Album Summary

Performers

• Earl Miller (Organ)
• V and Legacy (Organ)

Composers

• Bernard de la Monnoye (1641 - 1728)
• Anonymous, English
• Scottish Traditional
• Thomas Helmore (1811 - 1890)
• Helmsley
• John Goss (Composer) (1800 - 1880)
• Peter Cornelius (1824 - 1874)
• Richard Storrs Willis (1819 - 1900)
• Gustav Holst (1874 - 1934)
• Samuel Scheidt (1587 - 1654)
• Anonymous
• Christmas Traditional
• John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820 - 1891)

Notes & Reviews:

This selection is a collection of improvisations by organist Earl L. Miller on Christmas songs.

The organ used on this selection was constructed by the Andover Organ Company in Methuen, Massachusetts and was installed in 1979.

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Works Details

Traditional, Christmas : March of the Magi Kings

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 49 sec.
• Form: March

Helmore, Thomas : O come, O come, Emmanuel (tune Veni Emmanuel) (New English Hymnal no 11)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 42 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic

Traditional, Christmas : Good Christian Men, Rejoice (a.k.a. "All Christians Now Rejoice")

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1853

Willis, Richard Storrs : It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1850

Hopkins, John Henry : We three kings

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1857

Helmsley : Lo, he comes

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.

Traditional, Christmas : Creator of the Stars At Night (Tune :: Condtor Alme)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 11 sec.

Holst, Gustav : In the bleak mid-winter

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 3 sec.
• Period Time: Post Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1904-1905

Monnoye, Bernard De La : Patapan

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas

Goss, John : See Amid the Winter's Snow, for chorus

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 5 min. 9 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : Masters in This Hall

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Notes: Composition written: Circa 1860.
• Running Time: 2 min. 8 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1860

Scheidt, Samuel : O Little One Sweet

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 14 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque

Traditional, Christmas : Nowell Sing We, carol (English)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1450

Anonymous, English : Angelus ad Virginem

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 30 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Choral
• Written: by 1360

Cornelius, Peter : The Three Kings

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1856

Traditional, Christmas : Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 12 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1582

Traditional, Christmas : What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 46 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1600

Traditional, Christmas : Unto Us Is Born A Son (Puer nobis nascitur; Piae Cantiones, 1582)

• Performers: V and Legacy (Organ); Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
• Period Time: Medieval
• Form: Choral
• Written: 13th Century

Anonymous : Saw You Never in the Twilight

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 3 min. 59 sec.

Traditional, Christmas : God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 49 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : From Out of a Wood Did a Cuckoo Fly (Czech)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 1 min. 49 sec.

Traditional, Christmas : The Holly and the Ivy (English)

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1710

Traditional, Scottish : Auld Lang Syne

• Performer: Earl Miller (Organ)
• Running Time: 6 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1797