Getting pretty close to Christmas here, but I've still got a lot of music to share with you. Hope you're able to keep up, I know there are many demands on your attention this time of year. Up next is another album filled with syrupy strings and smooth arrangements of the same old Christmas carols you've been hearing all season long. But in my book, more is sometimes better. Please have a go at
The Stradivarius String Society-
Singing Strings Herald Christmas (Lester L1002, Mono). I've been looking at this cover in the collection for years and never really paid too much attention to it, then finally one day I decided it would be a good candidate to rip and share. Sure enough, it skipped and skipped badly so I had to go and find another copy of it somewhere in the collection. Took a month or so of hunting before I was able to hunt another one down. But I got it, and that second copy had a better cover for the scanning to boot. So enjoy!
1. Silent Night
2. Come All Ye Faithful
3. Hark The Herald Angels Sing
4. White Christmas
5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
6. Little Town Of Bethlehem
7. Deck The Halls
8. Joy To The World
9. First Noel
10. Good King Wenceslaus
11. O Holy Night
12. We 3 Kings
MEGA
The conductor listed for this one - Fritz Munch - was a real person. He was the older brother of Charles Munch, famed as the music director of the Boston Symphony in the 1950s.
ReplyDeleteThe Cologne Symphony listed is possibly the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, which has been around for about 200 years. (As have I.)
I'm told this was reissued a few times under different titles with different artists attribution. I wonder if this is the original as Munch was a real person.
DeleteI've been liking syrupy strings in my Christmas music lately so this one is much appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI feel like I've shared a lot of those strings this year. Enjoy!
DeleteThere are two different orchestras listed so the label probably lifted the tracks from earlier sources.
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