Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber, Augusta Holmès, James Pierpont, Mel Torme, Meredith Willson
Performer: Aldo D. Platteau, Margaux de Valensart, Maxime Melnik, Virginie Leonard, Pierre Derhet, La Monnaie Children’s and Youth Choirs
Conductor: Benoît Giaux
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Cypres
Catalogue: CYP8612
Release: 2021
Size: 1.08 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. anon.: Puer natus est nobis
02. Piae Cantiones: Tempus adest floridum
03. Platteau: Interludium
04. trad.: Alle, psallite cum luya
05. trad.: The Boar’s Head Carol
06. trad.: Maria door een doornwoud trad
07. trad.: C’estot la veill’ don Noeye
08. trad.: O, souh ! Mareye, qui fait-i freud
09. trad.: Bondjou, wesene, dwermez v’eco ?
10. trad.: Er is een kindeke geboren op aard
11. trad.: Quelle est cette odeur agréable ?
12. trad.: Entre le bœuf et l’ane gris
13. trad.: Le bel ange du ciel
14. trad.: Noël nouvelet
15. trad.: Guillo, prends ton tambourin
16. Juan Francisco Munoz y Pabon, José Ramón Gomis: La nana, balada al Nino Jesus
17. trad.: El Noi de la Mare
18. trad.: Birjina gaztetto bat zegoen
19. trad.: Tu scendi dalle stelle
20. Pierpont: Jingle Bells Intro
21. Willson: It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas
22. Pierpont: Jingle Bells Bridge
23. Felix Bernard, Richard B. Smith: Winter Wonderland
24. Tormé: Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
25. Pierpont: Jingle Bells Ending
26. Henri Martinet, Raymond Vincy: Petit papa Noël
27. Holmès A: Trois Anges Sont Venus ce Soir!
28. trad.: La Marche des Rois
29. Hippolyte Ackermans, René Sarvil: Le Noel des petits santons
30. Adolphe Adam, Placide Cappeau: Minuit, chretiens
31. William J. Kirkpatrick, Anonymous: Away in a Manger
32. Jehan Tabourot, George Ratcliffe Woodward: Ding Dong Merrily on High
33. Lowell Mason, Isaac Watts: Joy to the World !
34. Richard Storrs Willis, Edmund Sears: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
35. trad.: Coventry Carol
36. Mendelssohn, Wesley: Hark ! The Herald-Angels Sing (From “Festgesang zum Gutenbergfest, WoO 9, MWV D4: II. & Charles Wesley)
37. Gruber: Stille Nacht
2021/22, a cultural season unlike any other, brings the 30th anniversary of Cypres. Musical renewal and reinvention is of the essence for any record label in today’s environment. An enterprising spirit; a constant quest for newly composed works; firm roots in the local musical landscape; representation of prestigious names and advocacy of young talent: all these are elements that constitute our particular creative formula.
This fifth album in Cypres’ anniversary series offers a real Christmas odyssey, a journey through time in search of our childhood memories: Tino Rossi for some, Jingle Bells for others. Composer and arranger Aldo D. Platteau has carefully selected the most beautiful existing Christmas carols and assembled them into a fresco of Seven popular and traditional Christmas scenes for choir, soloists and instrumental ensemble. These musical pictures allow us to reconnect with our traditions and give us the intimate conviction that there is a magical dimension to life – the magic of Christmas!