Hallé: A Christmas Celebration

 
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Hallé: A Christmas Celebration
Hallé, Hallé Youth & Hallé Children's Choirs, Stephen Bell

[ Halle / CD ]

Release Date: Friday 9 September 2016

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"A lovely festive celebration and a reminder of what Christmas is all about" Oldham Chronicle (2014)

Christma s is a time for the family, and one of the joys of the Hallé's annual Christmas concerts is the way that they unite the whole Hallé musical family: not just the Hallé and Hallé Choir, but the Hallé's superb Youth Choir and Children's Choir too. That gives a special flavour to this annual Manchester tradition.

This album contains a delightful collection of popular, ever-loved and newly discovered seasonal gems, covering orchestral and choral works from across the Christmas ages.

Alongside works by composers acclaimed for their film and TV music, Hollywood's own John Williams and Nigel Hess (Ladies in Lavender; Hetty Wainthropp Investigates), are choral must-haves including seasonal gems from British composers John Rutter and John Gardner. The orchestra glitters in Noel!, specially written for Hallé and conductor Stephen Bell and described as a 'Festive Romp for Organ and Orchestra', and in American favourite Sleigh Ride by Leroy Anderson.

This is an album that has time for both wintry magic and quiet contemplation and which also includes songs that sparkle as brilliantly as the lights on any tree. The Hallé carol concerts are a joyous celebration of seasonal tradition in the fullest sense: of Christmas past, present - and future. Enjoy!

"a pretty spectacular affair which goes for the big effect rather than for seasonal intimacy...If this sets the scene for Christmas CDs 2016, then we are in for a boisterous time. Which, perhaps, is no bad thing given the trials and tribulations of the year that is so rapidly passing." MusicWeb

Tracks:

NIGEL HESS
A Christmas Overture

ADOLPHE ADAM
arr. Darius Battiwalla
O Holy Night

JOHN GARDNER
Tomorrow Shall Be My Dancing Day

PEARSALL ARR. ROBERT
In Dulci Jubilo

RODERICK ELMS
Noel
World Premiere Recording

JOHN WILLIAMS
Somewhere In My Memory

ADAM SAUNDERS
Fairytale Sleightride

JOHN RUTTER
Angels' Carol

SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Waltz, Winter Bonfire

GUSTAV HOLST
Personent Hodie

JOHN IRELAND
The Holy Boy

ELIZABETH POSTON
Jesus Christ The Apple Tree

RICHARD BISSILL
A Christmas Carnival

CHRISTINA ROSSETTI / HAROLD DARKE
In The Bleak Midwinter

NIKOLAI ANDREYEVICH RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Dance Of The Tumblers

MARTA KEEN, arr. Alwyn Green:
Christmas On The Beach at Waikiki (arr. Alwyn Green)

LEROY ANDERSON:
Sleigh Ride

TRADITIONAL
We Wish You a Merry Christmas