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Once Love Was A Song - Songs with Lyrics by Lars Forssell
$27.99CDSterling Records
Jun 06, 2025CDA1878 -
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Yuliya - Forgotten Songs of Julia Weissberg Rimsky-Korsakov
$15.99CDAzica Records
Aug 22, 2025ACD-71375 -
Sky of My Heart
$21.99SACDBIS
Jun 13, 2025BIS-2719 -
My Heart and I - Songs by Clara Schumann & Nancy Dalberg
$18.99CDDanacord
Feb 06, 2026DACOCD996 -
Amidst the Shades
$21.99SACDBIS
Mar 06, 2026BIS-2698 -
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Festival of Christmas / Walters, RLPO
Brahms & Schumann: Lieder
Crescentini And Giuliani Songs For Soprano And Guitar
American Music For Percussion Vol 2 / New England Conservatory Percussion Ensemble
Christmas Concertos & Cantatas / Standage, Collegium Musicum 90
Including some of the most beautiful baroque Christmas music on offer, this programme makes for the perfect Christmas collection. 'This is period-instrument performance at its best', wrote American Record Guide on the CD's original release. It is re-issued here for the first time. Three popular favourites, Corelli's gorgeous concerto for Christmas Eve, an idyllic Christmas concerto by Vivaldi, and Manfredini's Concerto grosso are complemented by two little-known cantatas by Telemann and Scarlatti. Each of the Italian composers has his own voice, contrasting tremendously with the more rugged German style of Telemann. Susan Gritton is the soloist in Scarlatti's cantata, described by Classic CD as 'ravishing and ravishingly sung... worth anyone's CD token'. This is a disc of intimate Christmas music, which will make an ideal stocking filler. As Classic CD wrote at the time of the original release, 'This is a delightful addition to the Christmas market, and the careful selection of its items and superb recording ensure that, like the traditional puppy, it's not just for Christmas'.
REVIEW:
These Baroque concertos and cantatas are all associated with Christmas, although some only marginally. The Scarlatti and Telemann cantatas were written for Christmas. The Manfredini and Corelli concertos probably received their associations with Christmas because each contains a pastorale movement, shepherds’ music in 12/8 time that Italian folk tradition associated with Christmas (the “Pifa” from Handel’s Messiah is another example). The Vivaldi concerto, one of his typical string concertos, seems to have received its seasonal connection from Vivaldi’s practice of programming it at Christmas time.
All of this music is delightful to hear. Many of Fanfare’s readers will probably have one or more of these works already, especially the concertos. The two cantatas are less often encountered, especially the Telemann, from the first movement of which we get the English carol Good Christian Men Rejoice. The playing and singing are excellent in all respects. Susan Gritton makes a major contribution in the solos of the Scarlatti cantata. Members of Collegium 90’s choir are equally good as soloists in the Telemann. Presiding over all, Simon Standage directs lively performances that respect the score and never stray into extremes of tempo.
This collection was issued 10 years ago under the title “Per la notte di natale.” In this reissue, Chandos provides full notes along with texts and translations, for which I commend them. Anyone looking for an enjoyable collection of Baroque music associated with Christmas need look no further.
-- Fanfare
Mozart: Arias
Higgins: The Faerie Bride for female voice, male voice, chor
Higgins: The Faerie Bride for female voice, male voice, chor
Once Love Was A Song - Songs with Lyrics by Lars Forssell
A Fiddler's Last Journey - Songs by Dan Andersson
Dan Andersson died at the age of 32 in 1920, more than 100 years ago. His poetry is still relevant and beloved. Many can still recite his poems and sing many of the compositions. He is one of Sweden's most important poets, a romantic working-class poet who gave voice to the poor in the country, depicted areas and conditions in Sweden that had hardly been illuminated before. One of the great strengths of his poetry is that it is universal, human and beautiful. Nature, love and the conditions of life play the biggest role.
Thomas: Far Past War for SATB Chorus & Small Orchestra – Voc
Mozart Week 1994
Yuliya - Forgotten Songs of Julia Weissberg Rimsky-Korsakov
Sky of My Heart
My Heart and I - Songs by Clara Schumann & Nancy Dalberg
Amidst the Shades
Shostakovich: Orchestral Songs; Vocal Symphonic Music
Korean Tapestry
Korean Tapestry
Blackford: Nadia Anjuman Piano Reduction for Soprano & Piano
Blackford: Nadia Anjuman Songs Full Score
Blackford: Nadia Anjuman Songs Study Score
Blackford: Sagrada Familia Symphony
Tailleferre & Milhaud: Melodies et chansons, Vol. 2 / Falk, Schleiermacher
Falk and Schleiermacher once again prove to be the ideal interpreters of this multi-faceted music: from the smoky nightclub of the "Rue Chagrin" to the synagogue; past the children's playground to the cotton fields of America with hints of the blues - great art in a small form!
Andreyev: In Glow of Like Seclusion / Peyee Chen, Ensemble Proton Bern
Samuel Andreyev’s music is incredibly varied, from the sparse resonance of the Sonata da Camera, the ‘cartoon music’ (as the composer puts it) of Vérifications, characterised by primary colours and strong instrumental timbres; the Sextet in Two Parts which in contrast focuses on minute timbral shadings; and of course the cantata for solo voice and ensemble which is the title track of the album. Performed by ensemble proton bern, conducted by Luigi Gaggero with the magical soprano voice of Peyee Chen on In Glow of Like Seclusion (set to verse by J. H. Prynne) this album was beautifully captured in Zurich in 2022. The CD and digital album is to be followed with a double-LP vinyl version in the New Year.
Samuel Andreyev’s music has been featured in portrait concerts in Bern, Geneva, Toronto, Paris, Kyiv, Strasbourg, Montréal, Tours, and many other cities. Andreyev is a laureat of the Henri Dutilleux Prize (2012, for ‘Night Division’), and the Grand Prix Lycéen des Compositeurs (2020, for ‘Vérifications’). He is also Vice President of the music council of the Fondation Prince Pierre (Monaco). With his YouTube channel and Podcast, Samuel Andreyev presents lectures on musical topics, as well as long-form interviews with prominent musicians as varied as Brian Ferneyhough, every member of Captain Beefheart’s Magic Band, Linda Catlin Smith, Hugues Dufourt, Adam Neely and countless others.
