One last post on Christmas Day for you, a short collection of carols from the place where Silent Night began. I'm told it was 200 years ago this week that
Silent Night was first written and performed. It may not be one of the newest carols, but it's certainly one of the most durable. This small record comes to us from a company that makes plastic molding and extrusion equipment. I guess you can be a large multinational corporation, and still celebrate Christmas, or at least you could back in 1975. This is
Schuelerchor Der Hauptschule Kirchdorf (Children's Choir Of Micheldorf And Kirchdorf, Austria)-
Carols From The Land Of "Silent Night" (Cincinatti Milacron 7" 33 RPM 583-1, Stereo, 1975). This small record was in a large folder that opened up to show the story of the carol. There's scans of the whole thing in the download. Enjoy!
1. Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht (Silent Night, Holy Night)
2. Still, Still, Still (Hush, Hush, Hush)
3. Grunet Felder (Be Green Ye Fields)
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This version of Silent Night is the 1838 version that was first performed in New York... There are some subtle differences between that and the original 1818 version... It is basically the subtraction of four notes and a repeat of the last two lines of each verse as well as a flatter note on the first singing of "Schlafe in himmlischer Ruh'"...as well as the refrains of each verse...
ReplyDeleteBasically...it's about 90% of the original...
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf has a recording that's extremely close to the original... I know of a newer recording by the Tavener Consort has it spot on...but both run afoul with Angel/EMI...
Nice. Thank you for this.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ernie.
ReplyDeleteAnother great run of music I'd never have heard if not for you.