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A Christmas Rose
Beautiful carols and music for Christmas. A heady mix of Christmas favourites performed by famous crooners of the past and the soaring voices of college choirs. The 'Hallelujah' chorus rubs shoulders with 'White Christmas' and music boxes mingle with chil
Beautiful carols and music for Christmas. A heady mix of Christmas favourites performed by famous crooners of the past and the soaring voices of college choirs. The 'Hallelujah' chorus rubs shoulders with 'White Christmas' and music boxes mingle with chil
A Christmas Rose
Beautiful carols and music for Christmas
A heady mix of Christmas favourites, from traditional carols to Victorian songs, peformed by famous crooners of the past and by the soaring voices of college choirs. The 'Hallelujah' chorus rubs shoulders with 'White Christmas', while music boxes mingle with children's voices and fine Christmas organ music.
1. O come, all ye faithful
2. The Happiest time of the year
3. What child is this?
4. Skaters waltz
5. Silent night, holy night
6. Have yourself a merry little Christmas
7. Sheep may safely graze
8. This must be Christmas day
9. Christmas song
10. Silver sleigh ride
11. Shepherds' Farewell
12. Hallelujah Chorus
13. Away in a manger
14. Dance tune from 'Hansel & Gretel'
15. White Christmas
16. Jingle bell rock
17. March of the toys
18. O little town of Bethlehem
19. The holly and the ivy
20. The twelve days of Christmas
21. Auld lang syne
Deanna Durbin (track 1)
The South Oxfordshire Young Singers (tracks 2, 8 & 16)
The Cherwell Singers (tracks 3 & 19)
Ian Giles (tracks 5, 18 & 20)
Judy Garland (track 6)
Martin Souter (track 7)
Nat King Cole (track 9)
The Choir of Worcester College, Oxford (track 11)
The Harlow Chorus (tracks 12 & 21)
Anne Shelton (track 13)
Bing Crosby (track 15)
Geraldo (track 17)
CCL CDG1076
This compilation p & c 2003 Classical Communications Ltd
Image: Christmas Greetings Christmas Card. Worthing Museum & Art Gallery/Bridgeman Art Library
Made in Great Britain
A Christmas Rose
Beautiful carols and music for Christmas
Nothing conjures up that unique Christmas spirit - the joy, the happy memories, the treasured dreams - like music. Traditional carols like 'O Come, All Ye Faithful', all-time favourites like 'White Christmas', lilting melodies like 'Skaters Waltz', and such rousing songs as 'The Twelve Days Of Christmas' - you'll find the essence of that festive spirit, captured for all time, in 'A Christmas Rose' - a programme brimming with best-loved Christmas favourites.
As the fire crackles, the tree glitters, the children wait with bated breath for Santa, and the snow whispers outside, gather the family together to listen to 'A Christmas Rose'. This joyous presentation promises you more than an hour of seasonal joy, merriment and memories. A young and wistful Judy Garland with 'Have yourself a merry little Christmas' (a never-to-be-forgotten moment in the 1940s musical 'Meet Me In St. Louis'), the velvet voice of Nat King Cole with 'Christmas Song' (Chestnuts roasting on an open fire), written by Mel Torme, and with a voice that enchanted millions of us in the 1930s and 40s, Deanna Durbin singing 'O come, all ye faithful' - Christmas cheer sparkles in this heart-warming collection.
Here are the songs you've known for years - The Cherwell Singers asking 'What Child Is This?'... the pure voices of Worcester College Choir singing the poignant 'Shepherds' Farewell', from Berlioz's masterpiece 'The Childhood of Christ'… Anne Shelton, who brought such warmth to her many recordings, giving her unique touch to 'Away in a manger'…The Harlow Chorus rejoicing in that great Christmas anthem, 'Hallelujah' from Handel's 'Messiah'…Geraldo and his orchestra reviving that golden favourite, 'The march of the toys', from Victor Herbert's operetta 'Babes In Toyland… the happy, sunny voices of The South Oxfordshire Young Singers revel in two musical crackers - 'Silver Sleigh Ride' and, recalling the 1960s, 'Jingle Bell Rock'. And there are charming performances of such seasonal delights as 'The Holly and The Ivy', 'O Little Town of Bethlehem', the dance tune from 'Hansel and Gretel'. Finally, to remind us that the New Year is just a few days way, The Harlow Chorus invite us all to link arms for 'Auld Lang Syne'.
'A Christmas Rose' highlights joyful, happy music to make your Christmas bright, old- time songs and sacred carols to make it special, with favourite singers and uplifting choirs. It will revive a host of cherished memories from Christmases past. You will treasure it always, as a feast of time-honoured favourites to bring you joy, love and happiness year after year.
Programme notes by Martin Moritz
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