It’s always been my belief that some of the best offerings in life come from one choosing to go down the ‘less traveled path’—so wonderfully conjured in Robert Frosts’s beautiful poem. I stopped by these snowy, wooded songs, bearing my accordion, glockenspiel, guitar, and other assorted oddities, and attempted to carve out a path for these beautiful gems by composers both familiar and well-hidden.
1. Rustic Serenade to the Virgin Mary—Berlioz
2. Now Tell Us, Genle Mary/Christmas Carol from Anjou—Franck
3. Christmas Chimes/The Christmas Tree-Gade
4. Knecht Ruprecht—Schumann
5. Happiness at Christmas—Mendelssohn
6. The Sussex Mummers’ Christmas Carol—Grainger
7. Noel/Swiss Noel—Daquin
8. The Shepherds at the Manger: In dull jubilee—Liszt
9. A Christmas Gift—Paine
10. A Rose Is Gently Blooming—Brahms
11. Children Playing Around the Christmas Tree/A Music Box Gift—Rebikov
12. Old Christmas Carol/Whence Comes this Rush of Wings—Franck