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Artist:
William Mathias,
Johann Sebastian Bach,
Sergey Rachmaninov,
Joseph Canteloube,
Jeffrey Skidmore,
Ex Cathedra Chamber Choir
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Less familiar than Bach's Passions, the Christmas Oratorio (1734) is a sacred celebration on a comparably expansive musical canvas. Conceived as a complete work sub-divided into six separate cantatas, each intended for use on a different one of the 12 days of Christmas in the churches of Leipzig, the complete performance is available as a three-disc set, while this collection contains 71 minutes of highlights. Further complicating matters, Bach reused material from existing secular works, nevertheless creating a new and seamless whole. Happily the release comes with useful notes outlining the origin of the work, together with full texts in German and English. Choos...
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Artist:
Andre Corboz & Children Choir
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Artist:
Various Artists
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This album sounds like the kind of music you would expect to find accompanying a Christmas parade sequence in, say, a Doris Day movie. There are brass fanfares aplenty, heaps of swirling strings, cymbal clashes at every climax and climaxes at every key change. Roberto Alagna completes the picture by finishing each number with the kind of staggering fortissimo high note that makes the roof of your mouth tingle. The effect is totally shameless--and absolutely irresistible. Alagna's intention was to create an album reminiscent of the great Hollywood recordings and EMI has succeeded admirably, right down to the fabulously cheesy booklet photos involving fake snow and yule log...
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Artist:
Eden Burning
Track listing: 1, You Could Be The Meadow; 2, The Brontes, Alice and Me; 3, Forgive-Me-Not (live); 4 Matty Groves (live).
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Artist:
Various Composers,
Canadian Brass,
Elmer Iseler Singers
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List Price: £11.99
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Staring:
Michael Caine,
Dave Goelz,
Steve Whitmire,
Jerry Nelson,
Frank Oz
Director:
Brian Henson
Brian Henson directs his late father's creations in the Charles Dickens classic, the best known (and most oft-filmed) Christmas story of all time. Michael Caine plays the old miser Scrooge with Kermit as his long-suffering but ever-hopeful employee Bob Cratchit, Miss Piggy as Cratchit's wife, and a host of Muppets (including the Great Gonzo as an unlikely Charles Dickens) taking other primary roles in this bright, playful adaptation of the sombre tale. Or at least it starts brightly enough--the anarchic humour soon settles into mirthful memories and a sense of melancholy as the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future take Scrooge on a journey of his lonely, wasted l...
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