Christmas with Chanticleer (Featuring Dawn Upshaw)
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Brand: CHANTICLEER/UPSHAW,Performer: David Alan Marshall
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Composer: John Tavener
Composer: Hugo Distler
Composer: Thomas Bold
Composer: Healey Willan
Composer: Jaakko Mantyjarvi
Composer: Welsh Traditional
Composer: R. Fisher / Pace, Adger M. Boyce
Composer: Joseph Jennings
Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber
Performer: Dawn Upshaw
Performer: Matthew Alber
Performer: Kevin Baum
Performer: Joseph Jennings
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language)
CD Release Date: 2001-10-16
Music Label: Teldec
Product features:
- Christmas Music
- Compact Disk
- This Is The Truth Sent From Above
- A Christmas Round
- Today The Virgin
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
- Noel Nouvelet
- A Lullaby/Away In A Manger
- The First Nowell
- The Three Kings
- Die Stimme Des Kindes
- Suo Gan
- Spanish Carol
- Coventry Carol
- Beautiful Star Of Bethlehem
- Huron Carol
- Mary And The Baby Medley: I. Maria Wanders Through The Thorn/II. What Child Is This?
- Mary And The Baby Medley: III. Mary And The Baby/IV. Jerusalem In The Morning
- Stille Nacht
Free Music Notes for Christmas with Chanticleer (Featuring Dawn Upshaw)
Free Music Review: Christmas amoungst the stars!
Hit: 5 Stars
This must be what the angels in heaven sound llike when they sing. The voices of Chanticleer blend so beautifully that it seems as if one voice is singing 12 parts. This album is a serious must have for all those who consider music an important part of the holidays.
There is one fly in the ointment though. No disrepect to Dawn Upshaw. Her voice is beautiful but we purists don't like to hear anyone sing with Chanticleer. We even find it difficult to adjust when instrumentation is used. Hearing a piano or flute throws us into a talespin. We just don't want anything to interupt the beauty of the voices. Let's face it, how many great groups are there out there who can sing without music let alone hold a note for more than 10 seconds without wandering off the note into oblivion!
The First Nowell is sung as it was meant to be sung when it is written so long ago. Lovely harmony but not over done or severly complicated. Most of the beauty is in the message it gives. No need to over sing it.
Die Stimmes des Kindes (The Voice of the Child) is gently sung to perfection with an other worldly, etheral quality. A haunting but gentle, sweet, harmony sings the last line here, "Ein schlafend Kind! (A sleeping child), they sing (Almost as wonderous as the child Himself. Almost!) of the Christ child. Countertenors above while the basses support them as they sing a final "o still!" I literally could not move as it ended. In a trance, I somehow found my remote and hit the replay button again and again. How in the world can this music be written by mere humans? Hmmmmmm, not of this earth, you think?
The Three Kings is something I haven't heard before. The music, written by Healy Willan in 1928, includes text from a poet named Laurence Housman (1856-1959). I thought I was going to hear a new rendition of "We Three Kings." WRONG!!! As the kings arrive to the place that the star of Bethlehem lead them, the last line of the song invites the kings to "come in ye kings and kiss the feet of God." The countertenors sing angelic while the lower voices sing the parts of the kings (two three voice choirs SSA and TBB). I dare you to listen to it just once. You'll play it over and over. Sometimes you must do that with Chanticleer because the arrangements are so rich you want to make sure that hear everything that there is to hear. Listening to Chanticleer sometimes requires a sophisticated enough ear to get through all the layers but everyone can enjoy it to the fullest. Some folks might say it's too high brow for them but I strongly urge you to give it a try. Sit your kids down and turn off the hip hop stuff for awhile. It's a music lesson in a bottle!
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