A Winter's Solstice: Silver Anniversary Edition
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Edition: Music CDCD Release Date: 2001-10-09
Music Label: Windham Hill Records
Soundtracks:
- Greensleeves - Traditional
- When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted - Schonherz, Richard
- The Gathering - Silverman, Tracy
- The Silver Swans - Gibbons, Orlando
- Shades of White - Brickman, Jim
- Col Partir la Bella Clori - Handel, George Frid
- Moon Lake - Walden, W.G. Snuffy
- Come, All Ye Shepherds - Traditional
- Beneath the Trees - Ackerman, William
- Down in Yon Forest - Traditional
- Maiden Chant - Story, Liz
- When Comes December - Story, Tim
- Queen's Prayer - Lili'uokalani, Quee
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Free Music Review: Instrumental relaxation
Hit: 3 Stars
Mellow, almost too much so, instrumental only. Would be good for background in a store of someplace, but not engaging.
A Winter's Solstice: Silver Anniversary Edition Poster
Since the Windham Hill imprint's Winter Solstice series was born in 1985, the concept has gone through some changes, bottoming out with 1999's abysmally kitschy Winter Solstice on Ice. With this Silver Anniversary Edition, Dawn Atkinson, who produced the first Winter Solstice disc, has gone back to her original concept of nontraditional seasonal music and novel arrangements of Christmas classics. She's also brought in some old standbys, soliciting works from Paul McCandless, Barbara Higbie, Will Ackerman, Philip Aaberg, and Liz Story.Much of this new Winter Solstice turns on classical themes. Ex-Kronos Quartet cellist Joan Jeanrenaud teams with guitarist Steve Erquiaga on an airy Handel piece, and McCandless adapts Orlando Gibbons's "The Silver Swan." Others explore traditional carols, including Erquiaga's double-guitar filigree on "Greensleeves." As with past titles in this series, the best compositions are usually the originals.
Keyboardist Tim Story, a Winter Solstice stalwart, unfolds another gorgeously melodic ambient chamber piece called "What Comes December." Tracy Silverman and Thea Suits turn in a wistful duet for electric violin and flute, and TV composer W.G. Snuffy Walden goes soft focus on "Moon Lake." While "Beneath the Trees," by Ackerman and Aaberg, seems born in the snow-covered trees of Ackerman's Vermont home, Hawaiian Ozzie Kotani's "Queen's Prayer" seems to have nothing to do with the season. Yet, it somehow fits the mood. --John Diliberto
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