Phillip Sear: Christmas Fantasies - 3 & 4 ( Away in a Manger / A Child this Day is Born )

[jannarta]

Phillip, Your Christmas Special is delightful and I will send an original piece of my Christmas art work to say thank you. Have a Merry Christmas and continue your good work in 2010. jannarta

[PSearPianist]

Thank you. That's really kind - and I look forward to seeing the artwork!

[Babejuda]

When I hear your music and playing, I always think: "What musical-surprises will be next"?

Although you have a style of your own, you manage to surprise us the listeners, in each of your pieces. Wonderful. Bravo.

[PSearPianist]

Thanks - I certainly try not to be routine in my pieces.

[CelestialTorment]

Truely fantasy... :))

[PSearPianist]

I hope so!

[stagehand19]

I am loving your video's as usual. The Christmas Fantasies got me thinking about other Christmas music. There is the fantasia on Christmas carols by Vaughan Williams & the carol symphony by Victor Hely-Hutchinson which is a beautiful work written in the late 1920's. I first heard it in the short version he wrote & called A fantasia from a carol symphony, which I believe was an arrangement designed to fit onto 2 side of a 12" 78. I wonder if this version was ever published as a piano solo?

[PSearPianist]

Thank you for your interesting comment. I would certainly like to see a piano arrangement of the Hely-Hutchinson, but have not checked if one exists.

[thinkgreenlovepurple]

Thanks for sharing your wonderful Christmas music, these are 2 of my favourites.

seasons greetings :)

[PSearPianist]

Thanks, and seasons greetings to you too!

[stlivermore]

Congratulations. Your Christmas fantasies are exquisite one and all. Thanx for the delightful Christmas gift of music. Cheers.

[PSearPianist]

Thank you - one more yet to come!