Holiday Classics / Gerard Schwarz, Seattle Symphony Orchestra

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Label
Naxos
Release Date
November 16, 2010
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      VARIOUS
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Seattle Symphony Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Schwartz
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      November 16, 2010
    • UPC
      747313267378
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572673
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. I. Miniature Overture

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    2. Silent Night

      Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    3. III. Allegro

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    4. Variations on Greensleeves

      Composer: Gerard Schwarz

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Performer: Maria Larionoff

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    5. II. March

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    6. No. 1, Canon

      Composer: Johann Pachelbel

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    7. O Little Town of Bethlehem

      Composer: Lewis H. Redner

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    8. VIII. Bourée. Presto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    9. III. Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    10. IV. Russian Dance "Trepak"

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    11. VI. Air. Presto

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    12. Gesù bambino

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Yon

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    13. IX. Hornpipe

      Composer: George Frideric Handel

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    14. Coventry Carol

      Composer: Traditional

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    15. VIII. Waltz of the Flowers

      Composer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz

    16. We Three Kings of Orient Are / We Wish You a Merry Christmas

      Composer: John Henry Hopkins Jr., Traditional

      Ensemble: Seattle Symphony

      Conductor: Gerard Schwarz


Seattle Symphony’s first holiday album embraces works composed specifically for Christmas as well as other pieces that convey a universal message of peace, love and hope—the essence of humanity’s highest aspirations. Music Director Gerard Schwarz asked two composers, the Symphony’s Composer in Residence Samuel Jones and Seattle Symphony Principal Oboe Ben Hausmann, to “make the music their own” by scoring several of the pieces to retain the unaffected simplicity of these well-known Christmas and concert works. Schwarz joined them in this task, arranging or editing several of the pieces, with the resulting works celebrating the remarkable artistry of the musicians of the Orchestra. In these new settings, recorded entirely in Benaroya Hall, the music emerges with honest, untarnished beauty.