Composer: Adolphe Charles Adam, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johnny Marks, Hugh Martin, Francis Poulenc, Jule Styne, Mel Torme
Performer: Die Singphoniker
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: CPO
Catalogue: 555236-2
Release: 2018
Size: 302 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Tormé: The Christmas Song, “Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire” (arr. M. Carbow for vocal ensemble)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
02. No. 5, Wie soll ich dich empfangen (Arr. Die Singphoniker)
03. Davis: Little Drummer Boy (arr. J. Westner for vocal ensemble)
04. trad.: Lieb Nachtigall, wach auf (arr. B. Englbrecht for vocal ensemble)
05. trad.: Kommet, ihr Hirten (arr. B. Hofmann for vocal ensemble)
06. Styne: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (arr. C. Schmidt for vocal ensemble)
07. trad.: Es wird scho glei dumpa (arr. L. Thomas for vocal ensemble)
08. Bach: Ich steh’ an deiner Krippen hier, BWV 469 (Arr. Die Singphoniker)
09. Adam: O Holy Night (Arr. L. Thomas)
10. trad.: Zu Bethlehem geboren (arr. for vocal ensemble)
Poulenc: Quatre motets pour le temps de Noël
11. No. 1, O magnum mysterium
12. No. 2, Quem vidistis pastores dicite
13. No. 3, Videntes stellam
14. No. 4, Hodie Christus natus est
15. trad.: Freu dich Erd und Sternenzelt (arr. G. Weinberger for vocal ensemble)
16. trad.: O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (arr. L. Thomas for vocal ensemble)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV248
17. No. 28, Chorale. Wir singen dir in deinem Heer (Arr. M. Honselmann)
18. Marks: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (arr. J. Euler for vocal ensemble)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248
19. No. 12, Brich an, o schönes Morgenlicht (Arr. Die Singphoniker)
20. Martin: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (Arr. C. Schmidt)
Why Another Christmas album? Because the Christmas season ideally offers free time and opportunities for leisure, meditation, and self-reflection – all of which need not necessarily occur exclusively in the sphere of religious spirituality. We can also put our holidays to good use simply by doing nothing, not planning too much, and taking advantage of the opportunity for everything beyond the limits of our “to do” agendas. Time! For encounters, conversations, and ideas. Free space and time enable us to suspend our everyday routines and perhaps to entertain the eyes with pictures that we haven’t seen in a long time or haven’t ever seen before – and the ears with ditto sounds. This release is intended especially for this “chronotopos!” Here the Singphoniker in no way wish to encroach on your time-space, providing it with an audio background or supplying the musical accompaniment. But if you want to close your eyes and open your ears, then the Singphoniker will be happy to join you. They would like to offer entertainment and to transmit joy in the form of many wonderful melodies and moods: the joy that comes with so many astonishing developments and combinations, with so many different elements and contrasts, with Christmas swing, with the classical tradition, with folk-song tones, and that ranges from the Singphonic special arrangement to the timeless classics of the modern era.
