Little Gifts
Track Listings
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1. Silent Night
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2. He is Born
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3. Bring a Torch, Jeannette, Isabella
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4. Long Long Road
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5. I Wonder and I Wander
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6. Frosted Windowpanes
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7. North Shore
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8. What Child is This
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9. Presents
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10. Silhouettes
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11. Clouds
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12. Snowfall
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13. Coming Home
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Editorial Reviews
About the Artist
Continuing in the tradition of George Winston and Lorie Line, Krsiti Kruse weaves a tapestry of color into her solo piano music. From warm and poignant melodies to dynamic sounds, this music is designed as nourishment for the soul. Kristi's concerts include inspiring hymn arrangements, new-age original compositions and a variety of well-known favorite songs.
Being passionate about music and it's power to touch people's lives prompted Kristi to start recording her arrangements and compositions. Her first recording "Afterthoughts" was released in March of 2001 and is an intimate and thoughtful collection of music--perfect for background music or for that quiet Sunday morning cup of coffee. She quickly followed up with "Little Gifts" a musical gift basket of holiday tunes and heartfelt original compositions. Her recordings are now being used for the Dubuque Community School's website and "FaithQuest" a United Methodist Church Visual production.
Kristi has been free-lancing in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area since 1991. Formally a Dayton's pianist, now she frequently entertains for the St. Paul Convention and Visitors Bureau, charity events and many private celebrations throughout the Minneapolis-St. Paul area. She has recetnly expanded her touring area to perfrom concerts at local churches in Dubuque, Iowa, Fargo, North Dakota, Eau Claire, Wisconsin and Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.
Kristi began taking lessons at the age of seven and soon acquired a partner as the family dog Penny would sleep under the piano bench as Kristi practiced.
Kristi received her Bachelors of Music Degree from the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire and her Master of Music and Doctorate of Musical Arts degrees from the University of Minneasota in Minneapolis.
For more information contact Kristi Kruse at 612-339-2519 or kskruse@msn.com.
Product Description
Kristi Kruse unwraps her talents with a Christmas recording embracing the warmth of the hearth at yuletide. Whether you're coming home for the holdidays or spending the evening with family and friends, "Little Gifts" is a musical treasure for the cold winter nights.
Little Gifts,Kristi Kruse,Kristi Kruse,Whether you're stuffing stockings or spending the evening with family and friends, "Little Gifts" is a musical treasure on a cold winter night.
Little Gifts
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- Bryn Terfel's beautiful voice.
- Why do people think this guy can sing??
- Relaxing
- Bryn Terfel's Simple Gifts
- A Heartfelt Offering Reminiscent of An Earlier Era
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Bryn Terfel - Simple Gifts
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ASIN: B000B8ISN2
Release Date: 2005-10-11 |
Tracks:
- Ave Verum Corpus, K.618 - Adapted by Chris Hazell
- Deep River - Arranged by Chris Hazell
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Everything about Bryn Terfel is over-life-size: his physique, his personality, his breath-control, and of course his extraordinarily beautiful voice. This recording displays his stunning vocalism and versatility to full advantage, but its title belies its content. Alhough it does include some simple pieces, the execution is fussy, overdone, and calculated for maximum external effect. The program ranges from Mozart, Pergolesi and pseudo-Bach to Sondheim in arrangements that are pure Hollywood, complete with throbbing strings and rolling drums, often destroying the spirit as well as the letter of the original compositions. It begins with Mozart's heavenly "Ave verum" arranged for baritone solo and chorus, frustratingly cut off after a few phrases (another setting of the same text by Karl Jenkins, written for Terfel, is more satisfying, being complete and original). The splendid baritone Simon Keenlyside joins him here as well as in the opening number of Pergolesi's "Stabat Mater;" originally for soprano and alto, this must be the baritones' revenge on female singers who usurp songs written for men, like Schubert's and Schumann's cycles. Franck's "Panis angelicus" also inexplicably becomes a duet; unfortunately, Terfel's and tenor Aled Jones' voices do not match. Bach-Gounod's popular "Ave Maria" is all swells and exaggerations. The rest of the program consists of folksongs, hymns, show and film tunes, inflated to operatic proportions and generally ending in a fade-out or a flourish. Even the title song is anything but simple. This record is not for purists who like their music performed the way the composer wrote it, but aficionados of great singing will love it. --Edith Eisler
Customer Reviews:
Bryn Terfel's beautiful voice........2007-05-13
Bryn Terfel has a beautiful voice. Listening to him is very pleasant and definitely something to look forward to. I read a review saying he would replace tenor Pavroti. However, I believe that Mr. Terfel is a Baritone and not a Tenor. That does not detract from the fact that he should be considered one of the world's top male singers. His voice is truly impressive. This CD by Bryn Terfel is one from our collection that is outstanding and a favorite.
Why do people think this guy can sing??.......2007-04-27
Sorry, I think this guy is one of the most overrated singers out there today. He always sounds like he is singing holding his nose shut. VERY nasal sounding.
If you want to listen to an incredibly beautiful voice, buy one of Josh Groban's CD's--you won't regret it! He has the voice of the century!
Relaxing.......2007-02-03
Excellent selection of music. It covers many different types. My wife likes being able to hear the words with out instruments drowning out the vocals. I find it relaxing and many of the songs are familiar and very well done.
Bryn Terfel's Simple Gifts.......2006-02-25
Simply superb. I don't know what our local (Wash DC) paper was talking about when they said Deep River was the weakest link. I was enthralled from beginning to end. I have had the pleasure of hearing Bryn Terfel live in recital at the Kennedy Center. I can assure you that his voice has only improved with age. He was wonderful then and is spectacular now!
A Heartfelt Offering Reminiscent of An Earlier Era.......2006-02-15
Bryn Terfel harkens back to earlier American operatic stars such as Richard Tucker and Robert Merrill who crossed grenres to satisfy their unquenchable need to sing any and all songs that moved them to an appreciative public. These great singers all had their origins singing sacred music from their respective religions and learned to lay their considerable talents before the altar of the simple inspirational song.
This recording is wonderful on many levels. The selections are an unusual mixture of classical sacred music, spirituals, hymns, Lieder, Austrian Christmas and Gaelic songs, musical numbers and movie theme songs harmoniously combined to touch the soul of the listener in a gentle ebb and flow of devotion, intensity and tenderness. All of these songs are beautiful in and of themselves and in his hands, we experience them anew.
Bryn Terfel sings with the commitment necessary to make the awesome challenge of simplicity look easy. To my way of thinking, he is the most communicative and articulate singer today, bar none. He is a poet who savors the sound, feeling and meaning of each and every word and marries it uniquely and faithfully to the music. He transports the listener into the life of a song and transfixes us each and every moment. His enormous talent is not overwhelming or distractive and is inextricably and wholly intertwined with the music. This is greatness and it is very, very rare today.
I like the inclusion of the choir in several of the numbers as it reflects on the nature and context of the songs. I am less fond of the selections with the guest soloists as I feel they do not match his ability to "get inside" a song. The orchestra and orchestations are sensitive and enhancing.
This recording is simply wonderful and should have a broad appeal. It will move and inspire the believer, satisfy and fulfill the otherwise spiritual, calm the troubled and renew a flagging soul.
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- beauty, simplicity, and utility
- Words and Music Marry in Siegfried's Arrangements
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Gentle Words: Shaker Songs
Polly M. Rupe , John Whitbey , Issachar Bates , David Stutz , Ann Glusker , Lisa Cardwell Ponten , The Tudor Choir , and Doug Fullington
Manufacturer: Loft Recordings
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Release Date: 2001-06-05 |
Tracks:
- I Will Bow And Be Simple
- In Yonder Valley
- All Is Summer
- O Lord Make Me Pure
- Love Is Little
- The Burning Day
- Circular March
- Help Me, O Lord
- Heavenly Display
- Followers Of The Lamb
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Customer Reviews:
beauty, simplicity, and utility.......2001-09-12
Of this CD's twenty-eight tracks, eighteen are arrangements by Kevin Siegfried; the remaining ten are straightforward, unadorned performances of Shaker hymns, sung either by the choir in unison, or by a solo voice, as they would have been sung in Shaker services. Occasionally the choir stomps and claps, also as the Shakers would have done. The unison songs and Kevin's settings blend seamlessly together, since Kevin's music is very sensitive to the spirit of the original tunes. His harmonies have an open, rough-hewn quality to them, like early American furniture, sturdy and useful. The music carefully mirrors and supports the text, occasionally employing mixed meter to follow the natural cadences of speech. The settings are largely homophonic, like Lutheran chorales, rendering the text easily comprehensible. Kevin avoids unnecessary embellishments and repetitions, and each piece is a small, well-proportioned gem, averaging about two minutes in length. In the liner notes, Kevin writes of his desire to preserve the Shaker ideals of "beauty, simplicity, and utility" in his settings, and he has succeeded brilliantly; the music is unassuming, serene, and peaceful.
Words and Music Marry in Siegfried's Arrangements.......2001-06-27
This recording of Shaker Hymns arranged by composer Kevin Siegfried and sung by the very fine Tudor Choir of Seattle is magnificent for several reasons chief of which is the careful blending of text and music in the arrangements. The "gentle words" of these hymns come alive through Siegfried's thoughtful soundscapes, providing the right context for the message of these poignant and life affirming hymns. This is no small task and although the Tudor Choir sings beautifully throughout, it is the arranging that has really caught my ear on this cd; you'd be hard pressed to find a recording of choral works with a better marriage of text and music. Well worth your money, time, and ears.
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- not to great
- Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$
- You get what you pay for.
- Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ...
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100 Favorite Patriotic Songs
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- Living in America
- Home on the Range
- Old Colony Times
- Clementine
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- Ring Ring de Banjo
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- To a Wild Rose
- Hail Columbia
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- Gettysburg
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- God Bless America
- National Emblem
- Soldier, Soldier Won't You Marry Me
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- Oh, Susannah
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp
- Toast
- Dixie
- St. Louis Blues
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- Battle Cry of Freedom
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Customer Reviews:
not to great.......2007-04-04
We were disappointed with this CD, but for the price I guess we can't expect much. I didn't care for the new style presentation of the songs. I like a more traditional rendering.
Not so bad, 100 tunes for 4$.......2005-06-22
I red the comments of two other people who have bought this 4 CD BOX SET and it is not really so bad. I will even add that there are some excellent tunes. However, I must agree with the fact that few tunes seem to have been recorded 40 or 50 years ago, mainly when you hear the scratches of an old turntable but it is just 2 or 3 tunes. Furthermore, if you do not know American music, it is a good BOX SET to buy if you consider that you received 4 CD for 4$ including 100 tunes. On these 4 CD, I have heard some orchestration that I have never heard before and I consider that they are different but interesting. Any way, after hearing these 100 tunes, you will say to yourself that you like this tune, this other tune, this other tune and so on and you will be able to buy a more expensive CD with the tunes that you like. However, I have bought many CDs in the last few weeks and as you know, there are always some tunes that you like and some tunes that you do not like on every CD that you will buy. So, don't buy it at 25$ but at 4 or 5$ dollars, it is a very good choice for 100 tunes.
You get what you pay for........2004-07-04
You get what you pay for. The singers put their own spin on the singing of each song. If you didn't hear the words you would not recognize some of them. Even some of the music sounds like a bad recording of music played on a turntable. Definitely not worth the price.
Now I know why there were no song samples to listen to ..........2004-07-04
I wish this review had been here when I was thinking of purchasing it. I guess you get what you pay for. If you are thinking of buying this, you are better off recording your own CDs (or at least buying one that you can listen to a sampling of the songs). This album includes songs that were mere recordings of the songs playing on an old record player. It's almost so unbelievable that it is funny.
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Release Date: 2003-05-20 |
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Cheerful Baby is a happy collection arranged to offer your child increased joy in their world. Designed by a team of experts from a broad range of scientific and artistic disciplines, Cheerful Baby's compositions explore melodies, rhythms and tonal ranges most likely to induce a happy mood in little listeners. Cheerful Baby's resonant acoustic recordings feature celeste, violin, flute and clarinet and include harp, viola, and cello, masterfully played by the award-winning musicians of The Arcangelos Chamber Ensemble. Selections include classical music, lullabies and nursery rhymes.
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Real music not synthesized.......2004-11-07
We checked this out from our library and my son really seems to respond to it. We like it better than Baby Einstein because it is real music not synthesized although I think my son likes the Baby Einstein as well.
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81st Birthday Concert
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ASIN: B000003GJ4
Release Date: 1993-11-01 |
Tracks:
- Zion's Walls
- At The River
- Simple Gifts
- Three Moods: Embittered
- Three Moods: Wistful
- Three Moods: Jazzy
- Night Thoughts
- Conversation With Aaron Copland, Donald L. Leavitt And Leo Smit
- Introduction By Jan DeGaetani/Twelve Poems Of Emily Dickinson
- Nature, The Gentlest Mother
- There Came A Wind Like A Bugle
- Why Do They Shut Me Out Of Heaven?
- The World Feels Dusty
- Heart, We Will Forget Him
- Dear March, Come In!
- Sleep Is Supposed To Be
- When They Come Back
- I Felt A Funeral In My Brain
- I've Heard An Organ Talk Sometimes
- Going To Heaven
- The Chariot
- The Little Horses (From Old American Songs, Second Set, 1952)
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- Calming and Soothing for your little love
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Guess How Much I Love You
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ASIN: B0000A1OFI
Release Date: 2000-04-08 |
Tracks:
- "Guess How Much I Love You" (A Special Reading by Sam McBratney)
- Brahms Lullaby
- Twinkle
- Simple Gifts
- Silver Is The Moonlight
- The Better Part of Me
- Over The Moon
- Hush Little Baby
- The Water Is Wide
- Gaelic Lullaby
- Little Angel
- Day Is Done
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- Moon Song
- Mother Nature Sings
- Gentle Rain
- By The River
- Meadowland Melodies
- Clouds
- Beyond The Sky
- Attunement
- A Warm Breeze
- Streams
- Starry Nights
- Nurture and Nature
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- In Minuet Style - Hubert Parry
- Variation No. 9 (Nimrod)Edward Elgar
- Intermezzo from Momentum Suite - Peter Hope
- Of Foreign Lands And People
- Child Falling Asleep
- Dreaming
- Sunrise from Daphine et Chloe - Ravel
- Prelude in G Flat Major, op 7 - Heino Kaski
- Evening Prayer from Hansel and Gretel - Humperdinck
- Lyric Pieces - No. 5 Cradle Song - Grieg
- Venus, The Bringer of Peace - Holst
- Largo from the New WOrld - Dvorak
Album Description
3CD music collection inspired by the best selling book. "Guess How Much I Love You" is a story - a tale of the reassuring bond of love between a parent and a child.
3CD Vinyl Packaging
Customer Reviews:
AWESOME.......2006-11-11
I got this for my grand daughter and decided to open it un and listen it to it before I sent it to her. I loved it so much that I kept this copy for myself and bought another one for her. I also bought one to give as a baby shower gift! The songs and music on these CD's are just so nice! I find them VERY relaxing and peaceful. I think this should be a must for every baby. My grand daughter loves it. It immediately calms down a fussy baby. You can't put a price on that!
Calming and Soothing for your little love.......2005-05-19
I love this CD collection. My son loves to cuddle and listen to soothing and dulcet tones of the author reading the story. By the second track he is getting drowsy and by 5th one, the eyes are closed. It's the only CD that keeps him entertained till he falls asleep in the crib. The other CD's are great at stopping cranky moods. I don't know what it is about this collection but it's just made for little ears!
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Christmas Around the World
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ASIN: B000001V9P
Release Date: 1995-10-17 |
Tracks:
- While Shepherds Watched - Sir Malcom Sargent
- White Christmas - Alvera Cordova/Coro Della Piccola Casa San Giuseppe
- Nar Juldags Morgon Glimmar - Axel Stordahl
- Bethlehems Stjarna - Axel Stordahl
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- So Long, Stay Well - Rod McKuen
- Come To Our Manger - The Eusebia Choir/Helen Economopolus
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Marvelous pictures and scenery.......2007-07-19
This is a great video of Australia's animals. If, like me, you don't buy into the evolutionary theory, you'll need to edit some of it's content. As usual National Geographic is a strong evangelistic propagandist for evolution. They speak of theory as if it's verifiable fact. This is simply sad. You can use this video to teach on bias in media.
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- a voice teacher and early music fan
- like all but one track
- Heaven is here!
- A Very Mixed Bag
- Among My Top 10 Christmas Recordings
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A Little Chrismas Music: Kiri Te Kanawa; The King's Singers
various/traditional , Dame Kiri Te Kanawa , The King's Singers , London Sinfonia , and Richard Hickox
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ASIN: B000002RRF
Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
Tracks:
- Here We Come A-Wassailing
- It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
- The Little Drummer Boy
- I Wonder As I Wander
- We Wish You A Merry Christmas
- Es Ist Ein Ros' Entsprungen
- Ding Dong! Merrily On High
- Stille Nacht
- O Little Town Of Bethlehem
- A Little Christmas Music (Medley A La Mozart)
- The Coventry Carol (Lully, Lulla)
- The Boar's Head Carol
- Gaudete
- Joy To The World
- Three Spanish Carols: Riu, Riu, Chiu
- Three Spanish Carols: El Nino Querido
- Three Spanish Carols: Villancico Catalan
- Deck The Hall
- The Wexford Carol
- The Gift (Simple Gifts)
- Patapan And Farandole
Customer Reviews:
a voice teacher and early music fan.......2006-11-29
The King's Singers come to us steeped in the 500 year old English tradition of choral singing; and that's fine with me.!!!There are 6 singers in this group (the personnel change from time to time)namely: Jeremy Jackman and Alastair Hume (countertenors)- Robert Chilcott (tenor)- Bruce Russell and Simon Carrington (baritones) and Stephen Connolly (bass). They are very capably accompanied by the City of London Sinfonia and Brass Quintet conducted by Richard Hickox. An added PLUS is the great Kiri Te Kanawa who sings an arrangement by Daryl Runswick entitled "A Little Christmas Music (Medley a la Mozart)". It's a hodge-podge of Mozart melodies sewn together in a rather haphazard manner, and meant to be humorous. I guess this type of composition does not appeal to me personally, and I'm sorry that Kiri's glorious voice was wasted. However, that's only MY opinion; I am certain others may disagree.
This album is really a mixture of Christmas tunes and that's partly what makes it interesting. And, of course it is masterfully sung by the King's singers;I enjoy all their discs; especially the recording of Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. Some of the arrangements on this disc are somewhat esoteric, and I'm not too fond of the very STRANGE arrangement (again by Daryl Runswick) of the Coventry Carol, but 'to each his own'. Their opening selection:"Here We Come a-wassailing" (arr. Robert Chilcott) is a great opening number and I must say that it's the best arrangement I have ever heard of this selection.
Let's face it:the KING'S SINGERS are perfection. But don't forget our American group:Chanticleer.
like all but one track.......2006-02-02
With the exception of track 11 (The Coventry Carol, Lully lulla) I really like this CD. I personally prefer the traditional renditions of The Coventry Carol. I do not like the "modern" harmonics and arrangement of it on this CD. Otherwise, it is very fine, indeed.
Heaven is here!.......2005-10-26
Xmas carols are always touching, but this cd is beyond all you have already heard. The King's Singers plus Kiri Te Kanawa is a combination of angelical adult voices, yes, adults can also have angelical voices. Buy this cd and check yourself if it is not true!
A Very Mixed Bag.......2003-08-15
I've often admired the King's Singers' performances, and of course they are a famous and accomplished ensemble, noted for the precision of their close-harmony singing, so I was looking forward to this CD. I regret to say that I find it a very mixed bag, on the whole disappointing. Unfortunately the reliable executant skills of the King's Singers are not matched here by their judgment and taste in choosing arrangements--perhaps there was too great a push for mixing it up, adding variety, "something different." The resulting arrangements are wildly uneven, some of them unattractive and tasteless in varying degrees from mild to dreadful. They range from the very good (bands 7 and 18: straightforward a cappella close-harmony, which is what these singers do best), to exotic (band 16), to schmaltzy (band 5), to busy (band 8), to campy (bands 11 and 19), to cutesy (bands 3 and 6), to terminally cutesy-poo (bands 4, 11, and 19). "Deck the halls," for example, is done in by its arch, cutesy-poo arrangement, as is "White Christmas," which even includes a bizarre, wholly gratuitous interpolation of a bit from Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije, God knows why!
Band 12, "The Coventry Carol," the longest cut on the CD, demands special mention: it is downright awful. The annotator of this CD writes cosily, "And of course there are the old traditional English Christmas songs, all mulled wine and mince pies." Nothing could be less descriptive of what we get here, where the misguided, pretentious, weird, grotesquely ugly, far-out dissonant-modern arrangement does its utmost to pervert and spoil this lovely old English carol, twisting and distorting it into something almost unrecognizable; this cut is a real horror. (Sir David Willcocks, the famed King's College choirmaster under whom the King's Singers trained and sang as youths, would be appalled. The man responsible for this travesty, one Daryl Runswick, also arranged two other selections; his consistently tasteless arrangements comprise three of the four worst on the CD.)
The performing forces vary from the a cappella singers to accompaniments with brass ensemble or orchestra. The variable but undistinguished engineering (EMI's Abbey Road studios, 1989)--over-processed, over-bright, hard-edged, and occasionally canned-sounding--is an additional drawback. If you like traditional Christmas music (as I do) you might want to think twice before buying this CD. At least try to listen to it first. Caveat emptor.
Among My Top 10 Christmas Recordings.......2002-12-26
King's Singers maintains the highest standard for all those who aspire to create spine-tingling a cappella harmony. Somewhat akin to the small number of their peers worldwide, no style seems off limits to their abilities. But certain aspects set the King's Singers apart. Perhaps it is their early and consistent training in the English choral discipline, or the many, years of touring together in one combination or other. Their most remarkable quality is their quintessentially English sound -- the pipe-like tone produced especially in the mid- to upper registers -- that is at once remarkably free of vibrato, but still alive with overtones. If one listens closely to the solo parts, it becomes evident: the sound isn't produced merely by excellent group intervallic intonation, but by individual voices capable of producing overtones. Thus, it's the sound you can't hear that takes your breath away.
Because the recording is so excellent on the whole, one disappointment stands out: I wish that Coventry Carol had been saved for another recording. The dissonances conjure up distressing images at odds with the overall effect they seem to have been trying to accomplish with the recording, and I can certainly imagine that in another context, I might have been interested and emotionally moved, rather than unsettled and annoyed.
In any case, this has remained for years one of my favorite Christmas recordings, and I have to give it 5 stars.
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Celtic Spectacular
Erich Kunzel , and Cincinnati Pops
Manufacturer: Telarc
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ASIN: B00006771B
Release Date: 2002-04-30 |
Customer Reviews:
This SACD is very good.......2007-07-20
All of the music this SACD is very good. I like very much of the celtic music.
Interesting and good music.......2007-01-26
A good music ,good sonics.
I particularly enjoyed some traks such as No. 4 in which James Galway plays but also no. 6 and 9 and the others.
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