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Highlighting selections for Advent from the Christmas albums we recommended to and were featured in the December 2009 Sons of Norway Viking Magazine. For the complete list, see yesterday's posting.
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This Week's Playlist:
- Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme, BWV 140 | Leif Alpsjö & Malin Svensson | Tidlöst! | Sweden
- Veien som går inn te Betlehem (The Way That Goes In To Bethlehem) | Kari Bremnes | Desemberbarn | Norway
- Gottes Sohn ist kommen (God's Son Has Come) [Canone all'ottava for two manuals and pedal] in F, BWV 600 | Andreas Liebig | Stjerneklang | Norway
- Gud faders søn enbaarne (God The Father's Only Son) | Sinikka Langeland | Stjerneklang | Norway
- Gå mot Betlehem (Go Towards Bethlehem) | Oslo Gospel Choir with Princesse Märthe Louise & Sigvart Dagsland | Det skjedde i de dager | Norway
- Det syng i natt (The Song In The Night) | Sondre Bratland | Rosa frå Betlehem | Norway
- Bered en väg för Herran (Prepare A Way For The Lord), adventssalm | Sara Isaksson | Jul i folkton | Sweden
- Von Himmel hoch, da komm ich her (From Heaven Above To Earth I Come) in D, BWV 606 | Andreas Liebig | Stjerneklang | Norway
- Et lite barn sa lystelig (A Little Child So Merrily), salmetone etter Arve Moen Bergset | Sinikka Langeland | Stjerneklang | Norway
- Å, skjønneste rose på vår jord (O Loveliest Rose On Our Earth) | Sondre Bratland | Rosa frå Betlehem | Norway
- Það aldin út er sprungið [Es ist ein Ros' entsprugen] (Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming) | Gunnar Gunnarsson & Sigurður Flosasson | Sálmar Jólanna | Iceland
- Marias fang (Mary's Embrace) | Oslo Gospel Choir with Sigvart Dagsland | Det skjedde i de dager | Norway
- Det var en natt (It Was A Night) | Rikard Wolff | Desemberbarn | Sweden
- Den fagraste rosa er funni (The Fairest Rose Is Found) | Sondre Bratland | Rosa frå Betlehem | Norway
The listing order is TUNE NAME | ARTIST | ALBUM | COUNTRY.
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If you liked the nyckelharpa rendition of “Wachet auf”, you may also like the version on the new recording “Fest” by Fotefar & Håvard Lund (three Norwegians and a Swede). There’s a nice review of “Fest” on RootsWorld: http://bit.ly/7U7oZk.