If you’re looking for the perfect playlist to listen to this season while you’re spending time with family, hanging up decorations, or frolicking in the snow, look no further! We’ve asked the Schulich faculty, students, and alumni about some of their top music picks for the holidays, and here is what we found. From Eartha Kitt to Heinrich Schütz, Nina Nesbitt to Nat King Cole, share in the winter festivities with us and take a listen to our .
Track Listing
- Driving Home for Christmas - Chris Rea (Christopher Paul Harman)
- The Christmas Waltz - Harry Connick Jr. (Donny Kennedy)
- O magnum mysterium - Morten Lauridsen (Jean-Sébastien Vallée)
- A Spotless Rose - Herbert Howells (Jean-Sébastien Vallée)
- Es Ist ein Ros’ entsprungen - The Gesualdo Six (Martha de Francisco)
- White Christmas - Jascha Heifetz, transcription (Dorian Bandy)
- Christmas Songs - Eddie Higgins Trio (Jinjoo Cho)
- That’s Christmas to Me - Pentatonix (Jinjoo Cho)
- Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer – Billy May & His Orchestra (Richard King)
- Do You Hear What I Hear –Boston Pops Orchestra (Richard King)
- O lieber Herre Gott, SWV 287 - Heinrich Schütz (Nicole Biamonte)
- It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas - Michael Bublé (Henna Mun, Current BMus)
- Wrapped in Red - Kelly Clarkson (Henna Mun, current BMus)
- In the Bleak Midwinter - Harold Darke King’s College Cambridge (John Mac Master)
- Jingle Bells - Ella Fitzgerald (Peter Freeman)
- Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt (Peter Freeman)
- We Need a Little Christmas (from “Mameâ€) - Angela Landsbury (Peter Freeman)
- Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow - Michael Bublé (Peter Freeman)
- The Twelve Days of Christmas - Straight No Chaser (Peter Freeman)
- Twelve Days of Christmas - Bob and Doug MacKenzie (Peter Freeman)
- Sleigh Ride - Harry Connick Jr. (Peter Freeman)
- Minuit, Chrétiens – Richard Verreau (Dominique Labelle)
- Les Anges dans nos campagnes - Hysope Choir (Peter Schubert)
- The Christmas Waltz - She & Him (Nicole Pagaling, current BMus/BEd)
- The Nutcracker Suite - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Chelsea Abbott, Current BMus; Viviane Lafrance, Current MMus)
- Sleigh Ride - Emilie-Claire Barlow (Lara Deutsch, BMus '12, MMus '14)
- Crepuscule With Nellie - Thelonious Monk (Zach Fischer, Current BMus)
- O Holy Night - Nina Nesbitt (Kyle Martis, Current BMus/BEd)
- The Best of Christmas - Nat King Cole (Jen Tobin, Current MMus)
- A Christmas Gig / Mouth of the Tobique Reel - Yo-Yo Ma (Thomas Beard, BMus '14, ADip '15, MMus '18)
- River - Joni Mitchell (Charles Lowe, Current BMus)
- A Tapestry of Carols - Maddy Prior and the Carnival Band (Rebekah Hutten, Current PhD)
- Noël sans faim - Patrick Norman (Frédéric-Alexandre Michaud, BMus ’17, MMus ’19, Current MMus)
- The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole (Bohdanna Novak)
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Judy Garland (William Caplin)
- Le petit sapin - Marie Michèle Desrosiers (Félix Gauthier, Current BMus)
- °ä´Ç°ù³Ùè²µ±ð - Lili Boulanger (Yolanda Bruno, BMus ‘11, Isabelle David, BMus '11)
- The Nutcracker Suite - Les Brown and His Band of Renown (Lorelei Dietz, BMus ‘17)
- This Christmas - Donny Hathaway (Stefan Thompson, Current BMus)
- Oh Little Town of Bethlehem - Ralph Vaughan-Williams (Alexandra Johnson, Current BMus)
- St. Matthew Passion - Collegium Vocale Gent (Dean Brenda Ravenscroft)
- Christmas Oratorio V, Ehre seidir, Gott - Amsterdam Baroque Choir (Geneviève Gates-Panneton, Current BMus)
- What Are You Doing New Year’s Eve - Ella Fitzgerald (Ariadne Lih, Current MMus)