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The Christmas net is cast wide in this captivating collection of seasonal music.
John Fox has crafted a delightful Carol Fantasia. Bryan Kelly’s Scrooge is an action-packed Dickens compression, brought to visceral life by esteemed actor Simon Callow, who also narrates Philip Lane’s Another Night Before Christmas, an update by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy of the classic poem. Lane’s Old Christmas Music is expressively rich, and spans the centuries. Smaller pieces from Liszt, orchestrated by Gordon Jacob, Rebikov and more recent works, complete a delightful selection.
John Fox: Carol Fantasia
Carol Fantasia
Bryan George Kelly: Scrooge
Scrooge
Philip Lane: Old Christmas Music
I. Anon. 16th Century: Gaudete
II. Peter Warlock: The First Mercy
III. French trad.: Bring a Torch
IV. Peter Warlock: Bethlehem Down
V. Mykola Leontovych: Carol of the Bells
Philip Lane: Another Night Before Christmas
Another Night Before Christmas
Matthew Curtis: Christmas Rush
Christmas Rush
Vladimir Rebikov: Christmas Tree Suite, Op. 21: I. Waltz
Christmas Tree Suite, Op. 21: I. Waltz
Franz Liszt: Weihnachtsbaum, S186/R71 (excerpts) (arr. G. Jacob and P. Lane as Christmas Tree Suite for orchestra)
V. Scherzoso (Little Scherzo, "Lighting the Tree")
VI. Carillon (Chimes)
X. Ehemals (Old Times)
XII. Polnisch (Polish)
Adam Saunders: Fairytale Sleighride
Fairytale Sleighride
Angela Morley: Snowride
Snowride
Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Les saisons (The Seasons), Op. 37b: XI. November: Troika (arr. P. Lane for orchestra)
Les saisons (The Seasons), Op. 37b: XI. November: Troika (arr. P. Lane for orchestra)
Thomas Hewitt Jones: Christmas Cracker
Christmas Cracker
9th December 2011
“Bryan Kelly’s Dickens distillation Scrooge, exuberantly narrated by Simon Callow, is one of the main items here, alongside Philip Lane’s Old Christmas Music, Matthew Curtis’s Christmas Rush and other pieces with a Christmas backdrop.”
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