Album
|
Another Night Before Christmas and Scrooge: Works by Fox, Layne, Curtis, etc.Simon Callow Narrator
|
||||||
Loading, please wait...
Einojuhani Rautavaara has produced an astonishing body of works—symphonies, concertos, operas, chamber music, and choral works—the fruit of an apparently inexhaustible imagination. The composer's works for children's chorus alone make up this attractive Ondine release. The largest piece, Marjatta, the Lowly Maiden, with texts from the Kalevala, is described as a Finnish mystery play in one act, in which the story of the Annunciation and Jesus' birth is transported to the northern forests. It is accompanied with great restraint and austerity by flute, bongos, anvil, and string quartet. The piece beautifully illustrates Rautavaara's ability to conjure up aural images of mystery and transcendence using very simple materials; the haunting music is often very strange, but it is never complicated. All of the pieces on the album, in fact, demonstrate the composer's gift for artless, memorable melody deployed with such inventiveness that it is never hackneyed or predictable. This may be music written for children to perform and enjoy, but its substance and depth give it plenty to offer adult sensibilities. The pieces were written between the early '70s and mid-'90s. The Tapiola Choir, led by Pasi Hyƶkki, sings with purity, sweetness, and mature musicality. The soloists are all superb, particularly soprano Tuuli Lindeberg in the title role in Marjatta. Ondine's sound is clean, clear, and balanced. © Stephen Eddins, Rovi
| CD 1 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
John Fox ComposerCarol Fantasia, for orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 1 | Carol Fantasia, for orchestra | 6:18 | $0.99 | |||
Bryan Kelly ComposerScrooge, for narrator, violin & orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 2 | Scrooge, for narrator, violin & orchestra | 19:47 | $3.49 | |||
Philip Lane ComposerOld Christmas Music, for orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 3 | Gaudete | 1:58 | $0.99 | |||
| 4 | The First Mercy | 2:37 | $0.99 | |||
| 5 | Bring a torch | 1:32 | $0.99 | |||
| 6 | Bethlehem Down | 4:02 | $0.99 | |||
| 7 | Carol of the bells | 2:02 | $0.99 | |||
Philip Lane ComposerAnother Night Before Christmas, for narrator and orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 8 | Another Night Before Christmas, for narrator and orchestra | 6:00 | $0.99 | |||
Matthew Curtis ComposerChristmas Rush, concert march for orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 9 | Christmas Rush, concert march for orchestra | 4:23 | $0.99 | |||
Vladimir Ivanovich Rebikov ComposerWaltz from 'Yolka' ('The Christmas Tree'), for piano, Op.21 WorkRecorded 2011
Gavin Sutherland Conductor,
RTE Concert Orchestra Orchestra,
Simon Callow Narrator,
Royal Ballet Sinfonia Orchestra
|
||||||
| 10 | Waltz from 'Yolka' ('The Christmas Tree'), for piano, Op.21 | 2:25 | $0.99 | |||
Franz Liszt ComposerWeihnachtsbaum (Christmas Tree), S.186 WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 11 | 5.Scherzoso (Little Scherzo 'Lighting the Tree') | 2:13 | $0.99 | |||
| 12 | 6.Carillon (Chimes) | 2:42 | $0.99 | |||
| 13 | 10.Ehemals (Old Times) | 4:28 | $0.99 | |||
| 14 | 12.Polnisch (Polish) | 4:14 | $0.99 | |||
Adam Saunders ComposerFairytale Sleighride, for orchestra WorkRecorded 2008 |
||||||
| 15 | Fairytale Sleighride, for orchestra | 4:37 | $0.99 | |||
Angela Morley ComposerSnow Ride, for orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 16 | Snow Ride, for orchestra | 3:43 | $0.99 | |||
Pyotr Ilich Tchaikovsky ComposerThe Seasons, Op.37b WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 17 | 11.November: Troika | 3:07 | $0.99 | |||
Thomas Hewitt Jones ComposerChristmas Cracker, for orchestra WorkRecorded 2011 |
||||||
| 18 | Christmas Cracker, for orchestra | 3:11 | $0.99 | |||









