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Release Date: Oct 09, 2001
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Personnel: Kiri Te Kanawa, Renata Tebaldi (soprano); Marilyn Horne (mezzo soprano); Luciano Pavarotti (tenor); Gerald Finley (baritone); Mark Tinkler, Anthony Way (treble); Eduardo Fernandez (guitar); Tom Finucane (lute); Alan Loveday (violin); David Briggs , Simon Preston (organ).
Arrangers: Atkins; Cullen; Willcocks; Donald Cashmore.
Some of the most beautiful and stirring seasonal melodies in the classical repertoire are collected in this special two-CD set. Christmas Adagios features 45 songs for the holiday season, performed by some of the world's leading ensembles and vocalists. Selections include "Ave Maria" by Luciano Pavarotti, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" by Leontyne Price, "O Tannenbaum" by the Vienna Boys' Choir and Uwe Christian Harrer, "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Rosemary Joshua and Ian Bostridge, "See Amid the Winter's Snow" by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and many more. ~ Mark Deming
Personnel: Kiri Te Kanawa, Renata Tebaldi (soprano); Marilyn Horne (mezzo soprano); Luciano Pavarotti (tenor); Gerald Finley (baritone); Mark Tinkler, Anthony Way (treble); Eduardo Fernandez (guitar); Tom Finucane (lute); Alan Loveday (violin); David Briggs , Simon Preston (organ).
Arrangers: Atkins; Cullen; Willcocks; Donald Cashmore.
Some of the most beautiful and stirring seasonal melodies in the classical repertoire are collected in this special two-CD set. Christmas Adagios features 45 songs for the holiday season, performed by some of the world's leading ensembles and vocalists. Selections include "Ave Maria" by Luciano Pavarotti, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear" by Leontyne Price, "O Tannenbaum" by the Vienna Boys' Choir and Uwe Christian Harrer, "In the Bleak Midwinter" by Rosemary Joshua and Ian Bostridge, "See Amid the Winter's Snow" by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and many more. ~ Mark Deming
Tracks:
Disc 1:
1 - Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra "O Holy Night"
2 - Ellens Gesang III ("Ave Maria"), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
3 - In the Bleak Midwinter
4 - Coventry Carol (2): "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"
5 - Away in a manger (Tune: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)
6 - Gabriel's Message (Basque)
7 - Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), in six parts, BWV 248 (BC D7)~Pastoral sinfonia
8 - Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchetsra ("trilogie sacrée") H. 130 (Op. 25)~Il s'en va loin de la terre (Shepherd's farewell)
9 - Panis angelicus for tenor, organ, harp, cello & bass
10 - Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), in six parts, BWV 248 (BC D7)~Schlafe, mein Liebster (Slumber Aria)
11 - Wiegenlied ("Schlaf, Kindlein schlaf! Der Vater hüt die Schaf"), folk song for voice & piano (Volks-Kinderlieder), WoO 31/11
12 - O Jesulein süss, sacred song for voice & continuo (Schemelli Gesangbuch No. 203), BWV 493 (BC F234)
13 - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
14 - Cantata No. 151, "Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kömmt," BWV 151 (BC A17)~Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kommt (excerpt)
15 - Lute (Chamber) Concerto, for lute (or guitar), 2 violins & continuo in D major, RV 93~Largo
16 - Alma Redemptoris mater, motet (unspecified of 4)
17 - O magnum mysterium, motet for 8 voices
18 - Zealous Protectress (Zastupnice Userdnaja)
19 - Iubi-Te-voi, Doamne
20 - Once in Royal David's City
21 - O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (German)
22 - O Little Town of Bethlehem
Disc 2:
1 - Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
2 - Gloria in excelsis
3 - Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in F minor ("L'inverno," The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 4), Op. 8/4, RV 297~Largo
4 - First Nowell (English)
5 - In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
6 - Three Kings
7 - Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen
8 - Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian)
9 - Legend (When Jesus Christ was but a child), song for voice & piano or orchestra (16 Children's Songs), Op. 54/5
10 - Concerto Grosso in G minor ("Christmas Concerto"), Op. 6/8~Largo Pastorale
11 - Lamb, for chorus
12 - Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Balulalow
13 - Ave Maria, for voice & piano (after Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
14 - Mille cherubini in coro (after Schubert)
15 - Vesperae solennes de confessore for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 339~Laudate Dominum
16 - infant King (Basque)
17 - Lullaby for voice & piano
18 - What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
19 - contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts~Barcarolle
20 - See amid the winter's snow
21 - Blessed Son of God, for chorus (arranged from "Hodie," Christmas cantata)
22 - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
23 - White Christmas, song (from "Holiday Inn")
1 - Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra "O Holy Night"
2 - Ellens Gesang III ("Ave Maria"), song for voice & piano, D. 839 (Op. 52/6)
3 - In the Bleak Midwinter
4 - Coventry Carol (2): "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"
5 - Away in a manger (Tune: Cradle Song) (New English Hymnal 22)
6 - Gabriel's Message (Basque)
7 - Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), in six parts, BWV 248 (BC D7)~Pastoral sinfonia
8 - Enfance du Christ, oratorio for soprano, 2 tenors, baritone, 3 basses, chorus & orchetsra ("trilogie sacrée") H. 130 (Op. 25)~Il s'en va loin de la terre (Shepherd's farewell)
9 - Panis angelicus for tenor, organ, harp, cello & bass
10 - Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio), in six parts, BWV 248 (BC D7)~Schlafe, mein Liebster (Slumber Aria)
11 - Wiegenlied ("Schlaf, Kindlein schlaf! Der Vater hüt die Schaf"), folk song for voice & piano (Volks-Kinderlieder), WoO 31/11
12 - O Jesulein süss, sacred song for voice & continuo (Schemelli Gesangbuch No. 203), BWV 493 (BC F234)
13 - While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks (adapted from Handel)
14 - Cantata No. 151, "Süsser Trost, mein Jesus kömmt," BWV 151 (BC A17)~Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kommt (excerpt)
15 - Lute (Chamber) Concerto, for lute (or guitar), 2 violins & continuo in D major, RV 93~Largo
16 - Alma Redemptoris mater, motet (unspecified of 4)
17 - O magnum mysterium, motet for 8 voices
18 - Zealous Protectress (Zastupnice Userdnaja)
19 - Iubi-Te-voi, Doamne
20 - Once in Royal David's City
21 - O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (German)
22 - O Little Town of Bethlehem
Disc 2:
1 - Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night)
2 - Gloria in excelsis
3 - Violin Concerto, for violin, strings & continuo in F minor ("L'inverno," The Four Seasons; "Il cimento" No. 4), Op. 8/4, RV 297~Largo
4 - First Nowell (English)
5 - In dulci jubilo (Piæ Cantiones)
6 - Three Kings
7 - Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen
8 - Still, Still, Still (Stille, stille, stille) (Austrian)
9 - Legend (When Jesus Christ was but a child), song for voice & piano or orchestra (16 Children's Songs), Op. 54/5
10 - Concerto Grosso in G minor ("Christmas Concerto"), Op. 6/8~Largo Pastorale
11 - Lamb, for chorus
12 - Ceremony of Carols, for treble voices (or chorus) & harp, Op. 28~Balulalow
13 - Ave Maria, for voice & piano (after Bach's Prelude No. 1 from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)
14 - Mille cherubini in coro (after Schubert)
15 - Vesperae solennes de confessore for soloists, chorus & orchestra, K. 339~Laudate Dominum
16 - infant King (Basque)
17 - Lullaby for voice & piano
18 - What Child Is This? (Greensleeves)
19 - contes d'Hoffmann, opera in 4 acts~Barcarolle
20 - See amid the winter's snow
21 - Blessed Son of God, for chorus (arranged from "Hodie," Christmas cantata)
22 - It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
23 - White Christmas, song (from "Holiday Inn")