Classical and Choral Christmas CDs - Cantabile: Christmas With Cantabile

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Gaudete

The Little Road to Bethlehem

The Twelve Days of Christmas

Tua Bethlem Dref

Winter Wonderland

Cantabile: Christmas With Cantabile

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Cantabile's new Christmas album, as always, has a little bit of everything; folk carols from Austria & Ireland, mediaeval carols from Britain & Spain, English & Welsh artsong, pop songs from the 40s, 50s & 70s, a silly rendition with Sound FX [!] of The Twelve Days of Christmas, and Carol - which lasts just a few minutes, but manages to tell the Christmas story using just 28 of Cantabile's favourite carols. This last number was runner-up in the category 'best Christmas track' in the 2004 CARA awards. Also listeners can choose their language for a Compagnons de la Chanson song - either English [The Jimmy Brown Song] or the original French [Les Trois Cloches].Not forgetting Tom Lehrer's sardonic take on Christmas, and a song about raucous peasant Carol Singers. From the sublime to the ridiculous…… Christmas with Cantabile!

Song List:
Winter Wonderland (Dick Smith, Felix Bernard/arr. Cantabile)
The Little Road to Bethlehem (Margaret Rose, Michael Head)
Gaudete! (Jistebnice Cantional, Piae Cantiones/arr. Cantabile)
Tua Bethlem Dref (A Welsh Carol) (Wil Ifan, Edward Arthur/arr. Cantabile)
The Twelve Days of Christmas (Trad./Cantabile/arr. Peter Knight)
Wexford Carol (Trad. Irish) (Arr. Cantabile)
White Christmas (Irving Berlin/arr. Cantabile)
Süßer die Glocken nie klingen (Trad. Austrian) (Arr. Cantabile)
Coventry Carol (Pageant of the Shearmen and Tailors) (Arr. Cantabile)
The First Mercy (Bruce Blunt, Peter Warlock/arr. Cantabile)
The Jimmy Brown Song (Bert Reisfeld, Jean Villard, Marc Herrand/arr. Cantabile)
Lonely This Christmas (Nicky Chinn, Mike Chapman/arr. Cantabile),br>A Christmas Carol (Tom Lehrer/arr. Cantabile)
The Christmas Song (Robert Wells, Mel Tormé/arr. David Cullen)
The Carol Singers (known in Old English as 'Christmas Waits) (Charles Hayes, Thomas Case Sterndale Bennett/arr. Cantabile)
Silent Night (Josef Mohr, Franz Xaver Gruber/arr. Cantabile, after Harry Frommermann of The Comedian Harmonists)
Carol (Arr. Cantabile)
Bonus Track:
Les Trois Cloches (Jean Villard, Marc Herrand/arr. Cantabile)
(54:10 2003)