Andreas Vollenweider - Midnight Clear
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Artist: Andreas VollenweiderEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-10-24
Music Label: Denon Records
Soundtracks:
- Holly and the Ivy - Andreas Vollenweider
- Over the Hills and Over the Vale - Andreas Vollenweider
- Midnight Clear - Carly Simon, Andreas Vollenweider
- Coventry Carol - Andreas Vollenweider
- Wexford Carol - Andreas Vollenweider
- Suspeded Note - Carly Simon, Andreas Vollenweider
- Yorkshire Wassail - Andreas Vollenweider
- What Child Is This? - Andreas Vollenweider
- Carol of the Drum - Andreas Vollenweider
- Forgive - Carly Simon, Andreas Vollenweider
- Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Andreas Vollenweider
- Child in a Manger - Andreas Vollenweider
- Hymn to the Secret Heart - Carly Simon, Andreas Vollenweider
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Hit: 5 Stars
As always, Vollenweider music is completely enchanting and Midnight Clear is exactly that. Such a beautiful collection of old and new holiday music which my husband and I loved so much that we played it more than any other holiday album and will enjoy it all year as well. Thank you, Andreas Vollenweider and all the other members of your group, for giving us such a beautiful musical treasure!
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First holiday title from Andreas Vollenweider, one of the world's most popular ambient/new age artists!The surprise here isn't that Andreas Vollenweider has recorded a Christmas CD. The surprise is it took him this long to do it. He's never recorded covers before, but his mixture of fantasy and exotica make him a perfect candidate to score a Yuletide album. At his best, he makes these carols sound like they fell full-blown on his harp. He completely reworks the familiar themes not the way a jazz band might, improvising solos off the main melody, but completely recasting the melody itself. On the best songs, including "The Holly and the Ivy" and "Yorkshire Wassail," he fragments and inverts the tune, often using only the seed of the carol for his explorations. Vollenweider goes beyond the traditional repertoire with songs like "Over the Hills and Over the Vale," an adaptation of the medieval "In Vernale Tempore" that he turns into a chamber music jaunt with recorders, cellos, and percussion. Although he makes meticulously crafted music, it's easy to forget that Vollenweider creates most of his work through improvisation. That is the key to these personal interpretations of Christmas carols on. Longtime but occasional collaborator Carly Simon turns up on several tunes, and--helped by greeting-card instrumental versions of "Carol of the Drums" and "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" (on which she does not perform)--threatens to push the album into maudlin terrain. That's the nature of the Christmas beast, but despite these lapses, they still don't sabotage the often simple charm of Vollenweider's inventive, nostalgically gilded instrumentals. --John Diliberto
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