| Welcome Christmas: Carols and Lullabies From Around the World | 
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Category: Music
Publisher: Clarion
Studio: Clarion
Manufacturer: Clarion
Label: Clarion
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.8 x 0.5
MPN: 908
UPC: 040888090823
EAN: 0040888090823
ASIN: B0002ZMJA2
Release Date: August 31, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Oh, mi Belen! (Biscayan) | | • | El Desembre Congelat (Catalonian) | | • | Alegria (Puerto Rican) | | • | A La Nanita Nana (Spanish) | | • | Las Posadas (Spanish) | | • | Campana sobre Campana (Andalusian) | | • | En Belen Tocan a Fuego (Castilian) | | • | El Noi de la Mare (Catalonian) | | • | Chiquirrigultin (Andalusian) | | • | El Rorro (Mexican) | | • | Encore: Fum, Fum, Fum! (Catalonian) | | • | What Sweeter Music - Michael Fink | | • | Sussex Carol - arr. Dale Wood | | • | Sing Hallelu! - Stephen Paulus | | • | Pat-a-Pan - arr. Robert J. Bastastini | | • | Go Tell It on the Mountain - arr. Steve Barnett | | • | Christ Was Born on Christmas Day - arr. Randall Davidson | | • | O Little Town of Bethlehem - arr. Stephen Paulus | | • | The Friendly Beasts - arr. Robert Farlee | | • | Infant Holy, Infant Lowly - arr. Daniel Kallman | | • | Ding, Dong, Merrily on High - arr. Chester Alwes | | • | 'Tis Winter Now - arr. Monte Mason | | • | It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - arr. Philip Brunnelle | | • | Away in a Manger - arr. Bradley Ellingboe | | • | The Holly and the Ivy - arr. Virgil Thompson |
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Album Description
From across the United States have come composers and arrangers whose work contributes to this collection of Christmas music. These are carols from around the world brought together in arrangements that reflect an inherently American diversity and spirit. From Virgil Thomson?s camp meeting setting of "The Holly and the Ivy" and Steve Barnett?s swing version of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" to Randall Davidson?s homespun "Christ Was Born on Christmas Day" and Conrad Susa?s magnificent Carols & Lullabies, commissioned from Susa specifically for VocalEssence. Maestro Brunelle has chosen carols?both familiar and unfamiliar?tied to one another by their inventiveness, charm and beauty in one of the year?s most exciting new holiday discs.
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British composer Benjamin Britten's Ceremony Of Carols is an Advent staple. In Conrad Susa's Carols & Lullabies - Christmas In The Southwest, the work now has an American companion piece. Initially inspired by festive Spanish-language songs that are typically sung in Arizona, the work incorporates traditional material from Catalonia, Puerto Rico, Castile, Andalusia, and Mexico. The lush yet spirited choral settings are splendidly sung by the VocalEssence Singers and underpinned by instrumentation that, like the Britten composition, relies heavily upon the harp. But Susa has also employed a marimba, a type of xylophone often heard in Mexican and South American music, which adds a deliciously subtle ethnic coloration. The balance of the program is devoted to well-known carols in arrangements by modern American composers. The entire album is an unexpected gem that soothes, exalts and pleasures the spirit. If there is any justice, it will become a beloved seasonal staple. --Christina Roden
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Welcome Christmas November 29, 2007
This is simply the most enchanting Christmas recording I have ever owned. I can't recommend it highly enough for those who love Christmas and some of the finest choral music. You'll love it too!
Diversity in Christmas Traditions October 24, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
It is getting more difficult each Christmas Season to find discs that offer Christmas choral music that is infused with a sense of "rootedness" borne out of time-hewn tradition and at the same time compliments--rather than rehashes--the existing repertoire of age-old Christmas choral music.
This is one of those rare discs that accomplishes this difficult task of offering a different approach to Christmas choral without slipping into the secular/contemporary (which usually strips all meaning and "rootedness" from Christmas). It does so by continuing to mine selections from Christmas traditions; however, the traditions are beyond the historical milieu of Olde Europe.
At least half the selections here hail from Hispanic origins. If I know anything about Hispanic culture (not much, but I live in the American Southwest), it is nothing if not traditional and rooted, yet passionate and alive.
If you are looking for a Christmas disc that can compliment (i.e., blend with but not duplicating) existing Christmas choral traditions, this is a "must-have" disc for your Christmas collection.
To be sure, several of the tracks are from the European Christmas choral traditions. But even these are executed with
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