Choral Christmas: Don’t be silly. The Muppets? Here? No…

At 10am GMT on each day of Advent I am posting a video of a piece which, in my opinion, celebrates the best of music made by the human voice – with the occasional quirky video thrown in for good measure! You can catch up with the full Choral Christmas here.

Jerry Herman:We Need A Little Christmas, performed by the Muppets

This performance by elite ensemble ‘The Muppets’ is a titanic clash of western choral styles, and deploys bewilderingly complex counterpoint to create a layered choral construction of mind-boggling complexity. The opening of the second movement carries clear echoes of the Lutheran school of sacred music as the work hurtles towards its riotous conclusion in a triumphant major chord. It is, quite simply, one of the greatest pieces of choral music ever written.

Also, if you aren’t one of the 12m who have already watched it, this is a well funny video: