Classical Guitar Music

Enjoy this wonderful collection of acoustic Holiday music that is never loud or fast but always soft and soothing!The Story Of The CD…by producer Darren Curtis SkansonIt has again been a very busy fall at CCM both in the recording studio and at the label. We have been working on this new Christmas CD and we [...]

Mary’s Lullaby with classical guitar and cellos is a slow contemplative work that is very peaceful and reverent. It is also my only original composition on the CD “A Light Classical Christmas”. Mary’s Lullaby has 2 distinct sections. The first section I imagine Mary singing softly to the Child about now much she loves him as she [...]

Song history of Away In A Manger - First published in an 1885 Lutheran Sunday School, “Away in a Manger” has two major melodies for the song, neither of them with certain authorship. The first two verses of “Away in a Manger” were originally published in a Lutheran Sunday school book in 1885. Two years [...]

Song History -  We Three Kings of Orient Are is a Christmas carol (technically an Epiphany carol) written in 1857 by Reverend John Henry Hopkins, Jr., who wrote both the words and the music for We Three Kings of Orient Are as part of a Christmas. We Three Kings of Orient Are first appeared in his Carols, [...]

Song History - “O Holy Night” (”Cantique de Noël“) is a well-known Christmas carol composed by Adolphe Adam in 1847 to the French poem “Minuit, chrétiens” by Placide Cappeau (1808-1877). Cappeau was a resident of Roquemaure, located a few miles north of the historic city of Avignon. He was a commissionaire of wines, and an occasional [...]

Joy to the World Song History -  ”Joy to the World” is one of the best-known and best-loved of Christmas carols. Joy to the World contains a message of joy and love replacing sin and sorrow. Though the triumphant words “Joy to the World” exemplify the Christmas feeling, this familiar text is actually a translation based [...]

Song History - Carol of the Bells (also known as the “Ukrainian Bell Carol”) was adapted from “Shchedryk” by Mykola Dmytrovych Leontovych, which was first performed in December 1916 by students at Kiev University. Carol of the Bells was a part of the Ukrainian National Chorus reportoire during its 1,000-plus concert tour around Europe and [...]

Angels We Have Heard On High - Song History
Angels We Have Heard On High is a Christmas carol based on a traditional French carol known as Les Anges dans nos Campagnes. Its most common English version was translated in 1862 by James Chadwick and is most commonly sung to the hymn tune “Gloria”, as arranged [...]

We Wish You A Merry Christmas Song History - In the days of Olde England (16th century ), groups of traveling singers would entertain for food or pay. These groups were called “waits” and were extremely popular at Christmastime.  We Wish You A Merry Christmas is one of those tunes that was sung by the [...]

Song History “What Child is This?“ -  The tune of “Greensleeves“, which is the underlying melody for What Child is This , is a product of the sixteenth century. Greensleeves is an example of folk music in the truest sense of the phrase. Webster defines folk music as the “traditional and typically anonymous music that is [...]