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Release Date: 11/15/2011 Label: Naxos Catalog #: 8572744 Composer: John Fox, Bryan Kelly, Philip Lane, Matthew Curtis, Vladimir I. Rebikov, Franz Liszt, Adam Saunders, Angela Morley, Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Thomas Hewitt Jones Performer: Simon Callow, Mia Cooper Conductor: Gavin Sutherland Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra, Royal Ballet Sinfonia
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Conceptually this release is a bit of an oddity, as the rather un-Naxosy cover suggests, but Christmas is a time of surprises. Most of the music on this festively generous disc lies well within the boundaries of light music, and rightly so, many will consider. Adam Saunders' Fairytale Sleighride, Angela Morley's MGM-esque Snowride, even Philip Lane's treacly arrangement of Tchaikovsky's Troika (from his piano suite The Seasons), all fall into this category, but each is well-crafted and likely to please those game for seasonal merriment.
Matthew Curtis's Christmas Rush is more Ealing than MGM, has excellent brass band potential and is one of the instrumental highlights of the disc, along with Gordon Jacob's fine orchestration, seamlessly added to by Philip Lane, of some of the pieces from Liszt's not-always-Christmassy Weihnachtsbaum suite for piano. Lane's own Old Christmas Music adroitly brings the distant past into the present in an easily digestible form. John Fox's Carol Fantasia is a straightforward medley of chestnuts; it is Christmas Cracker by Thomas Hewitt Jones, former BBC Young Composer competition winner, that is the best of the various carol arrangements, bringing the CD to an appropriately rousing end. The two works which give the disc its ungainly title both have parts for narrator, in this case the eminently dependable Simon Callow. Lane's Another Night Before Christmas sets a familiar children's poem slightly modernised by Carol Ann Duffy. Again, Lane's music is a bit syrupy, the piano part rather clichéd, but families will enjoy Callow's avuncular reading of the genial poem in any case. Brian Kelly's compression of Dickens' much-loved Scrooge story is in another league, dramatically and evocatively orchestrated. Kelly's Improvisations on Christmas Carols was one of the best works on a previous Naxos release of Christmas music, which also featured a couple of pieces by Philip Lane and Victor Hely-Hutchinson's sine qua non of the genre, A Carol Symphony. Scrooge is sparklingly read by Callow, whose narration alternates with the music, giving diminutive listeners ample space to follow the story. In fact, Kelly's version goes no further than the Ghost of Christmas Past and turns the final third of the work into general rejoicing at the Fezziwigs' Christmas ball. Before you can say "What the Dickens?", everyone is having a marvellous Christmas, just as it should be. The recording is very good, especially the RTÉ tracks. Philip Lane's liner notes briefly summarise the composers and their pieces, intriguingly describing himself in the third person in the process. In sum, a good stocking-filler or cockle-warmer, and a lot more appealing than Christmas telly. -- Byzantion, MusicWeb International |
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Carol Fantasia by John Fox |
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Scrooge by Bryan Kelly |
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Simon Callow (Narrator),
Mia Cooper (Violin)
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Old Christmas Music by Philip Lane |
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Another Night Before Christmas by Philip Lane |
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Simon Callow (Narrator)
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Christmas Rush by Matthew Curtis |
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Gavin Sutherland
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Christmas Tree Suite, Op. 21: Waltz by Vladimir I. Rebikov |
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Weihnachtsbaum for Piano, S 186: no 5, Scherzoso by Franz Liszt |
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Conductor:
Gavin Sutherland
Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1874-1876; Rome, Italy |
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Weihnachtsbaum for Piano, S 186: no 6, Carillon by Franz Liszt |
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Gavin Sutherland
Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1874-1876; Rome, Italy |
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Weihnachtsbaum for Piano, S 186: no 10, Ehemals! by Franz Liszt |
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Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1874-1876; Rome, Italy |
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Weihnachtsbaum for Piano, S 186: no 12, Polnisch by Franz Liszt |
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Gavin Sutherland
Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: 1874-1876; Rome, Italy |
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Fairytale Sleighride by Adam Saunders |
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Snowride by Angela Morley |
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Gavin Sutherland
Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: 20th Century |
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Les saisons, Op. 37b: no 11, Novembre "Troika" by Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky |
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Conductor:
Gavin Sutherland
Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: Romantic Written: Russia |
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Christmas Cracker by Thomas Hewitt Jones |
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Conductor:
Gavin Sutherland
Orchestra/Ensemble: RTÉ Concert Orchestra Period: 21st Century |
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