World’s Best Christmas, New Year and Winter Music

In no particular order, the best music ever written for the Christmas – New Year Holidays and Winter!

Enjoy as part of the FuturisTrendcast Year 2017 wrap-up & New Year 2018 celebrations!

There should be no surprise that most of it is Russian music — Russians embrace and celebrate winter like no other!

Гeoргий Свиридов ~ The composer of the Russian winter wonderland, Georgy Sviridov ~ the dreamy Waltz Snowstorm (Waltz from the musical illustrations to A.S. Pushkin’s “Snowstorm”)

Арам Хачатурян ~ Вальс из кф Маскарад  ~ Aram Khachaturian’s amazing waltz from the Soviet/Russian masterpiece film Masquerade, after the immortal work by Michail Lermontov. (The New Year masquerade ball has been a long-standing Russian tradition.)

Гeoргий Свиридов ~ Troika by Georgy Sviridov  ~ The word ‘Troika’ (Eng. ‘trinity’) usually refers to the iconic Russian set of three horses pulling a sleigh or carriage.

Гeoргий Свиридов, Метель ~ Georgy Sviridov’s Winter Romance

А снег не знал и падал ~ lovely Romantic Soviet/Russian song ~ The Snow Knew Not as It Kept Falling… (this amateur video is perhaps, well, amateur, but the music is very lovely – don’t miss!)

Salvatore Adamo ~ Snow is Falling

And of course, The Nutcracker. See my full post with several classic versions, and enjoy:

• The Divine Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker: Russian Holiday Cartoon, Waltz of the Flowers, Soundtrack + Classic Bolshoi Ballet Performance

In addition, also from The Nutcracker:

Petr Illich Tchaikovsky ~ Pas de Deux (The Nutcracker)

Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from The Nutcracker (The Royal Ballet, UK) ~ lovely performance