Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber, Anders Miolin, Arthur Seymour Sullivan, John Francis Wade, Juan García de Zéspedes
Performer: Anders Miolin
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: BIS
Catalogue: BIS2026
Release: 2012
Size: 1.18 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Gruber: Stille Nacht (Silent Night) [arr. A. Miolin]
02. trad.: Good King Wenceslas
03. trad.: Lulajże Jezuniu (arr. A. Miolin)
04. trad.: Noël nouvelet – Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle (arr. A. Miolin)
05. Köhler, Beckmann: V lesu rodilas elochka – Nu tändas tusen juleljus (arr. A. Miolin)
06. Wade: Es wird schon gleich dunke – Adeste fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful) [arr. A. Miolin]
07. Zéspedes: Convidando está la noche (arr. A. Miolin)
08. trad.: Les anges dans nos campagnes (arr. A. Miolin)
09. trad.: Maria durch ein Dornwald ging – Canzone d’l zampognar (arr. A. Miolin)
10. Sullivan: It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (arr. A. Miolin)
11. trad.: In dulci jubilo – I Saw Three Ships (arr. A. Miolin)
12. Warlock, trad.: Baloo lammy – Balulalow (arr. A. Miolin)
13. Miolin: Azure Christmas
14. Miolin: Stellæ nocte hibernali somniantes
Anders Miolin here expresses the universality of Christmas by selecting festive songs from across the world and creating fantasies on them.
Here he uses songs from Russia and Poland, as well as Scotland, Mexico and his native Sweden. In his adaptations he employs a wide variety of styles.
He also includes two of his own compositions: Azure Christmas is a memory of a Christmas he celebrated on Martinique, while Stellæ nocte hibernali somniantes (‘Winter Night Dreaming Stars’) catches the experience of ‘standing in the snow looking up at the clear winter sky, with all its twinkling stars dreaming on our behalf’.
On a number of acclaimed discs, Anders Miolin has recorded his own arrangements of music by composers such as Ravel, Debussy and Granados, performing them on a 10-string guitar. Together with the Swiss luthier Ermanno Chiavi he has now developed an instrument with 13 strings, which he uses on this recording.