I don't like most Christmas music. In fact, I'm an atheist. But I do love Christmas / Christian music which has a sense of the numinous and the sublime – such as Noël Nouvelet, the Coventry Carol, this, or anything by Hildegard von Bingen. What else should I be listening to this December?
Hopefully, my examples speak for themselves – but, to clarify, I'm looking for music which (1) dates back centuries (at least in style), and (2) has a rarified, reverent feeling. |