The Three Tenors Christmas
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Brand: PBSComposer: Adolphe Adam
Composer: John Francis Wade
Composer: Vittoriano Benvenuti
Composer: Johannes Brahms
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Composer: John Newton
Composer: Irving Berlin
Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber
Composer: Fermin Maria Alvarez
Composer: John / Ono, Yoko Lennon
Composer: Richard [1] Strauss
Composer: Katherine K. Davis
Composer: Walter Kent
Composer: Leroy Anderson
Composer: Felix Bernard
Composer: Placido Jr. [son] Domingo
Composer: Jose Feliciano
Conductor: Steven Mercurio
Orchestra: Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Performer: Plácido Domingo
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2000-10-31
Music Label: Sony
Soundtracks:
- Cantique de Noel (O Holy Night)
- Adeste Fideles
- Ave Maria, Dolce Maria
- Wiegenlied
- Oh Tannenbaum
- Tu Scendi dalle Stelle
- Amazing Grace
- White Christmas
- Dormi O Bambino
- Silent Night
- Pregarla (El Can de L'Anima a La Verge)
- Susani
- Happy Christmas/War is Over
- Wiegenlied
- Carol of the Drum (The Little Drummer Boy)
- La Virgen Lava Paqales
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- Sleigh Ride
- Winter Wonderland
- Un Nuevo Siglo
- Feliz Navidad
Free Music Notes for The Three Tenors Christmas
Free Music Review: A historical meeting...
Hit: 5 Stars
Although several labels already had Christmas albums of the three tenors in their catalogue, the three maestros never actually trioed on these releases. When Plácido Domingo and the "Christmas in Vienna" team started preparing the eighth concert in the series (six predecessors were captured by Sony, and one, titled "Celebration of Christmas" issued by Erato-Warner), they made a monumental decision: Re-uniting three of the greatest voices of the current music business.
For one and a half hour, Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti performed the greatest Christmas songs and carols from around the world. Nearly 65 minutes of this monumental concert are captured on this disk. The opening version of "O Holy Night" (aka "Cantique De Noel", "Minuit, Chrétien") by Domingo and Pavarotti would be reason enough to get this one. But wait, there is far more on the way, than selections from the classical genre. The real enjoyment starts, when the three tenors do one of the most romantic arrangements of Irving Berlin's "White Christmas" ever heard and fade from a rousing "La Virgen Lava Pa`nales" into one of the finest treatments of "I'll Be Home For Christmas" ever heard. Also of great interest is the trio arrangement of "Let It Snow!", which is included on some of the import versions and on the DVD.
If you are a hopeless completist like me, you may be asking, what happened to the 25 minutes cut from the CD release. Well, first let me say, that none of the currently available releases has the order of the songs as they were performed in the concert. Although this is a live recording, handclaps and other characteristics of a live recording are hardly audible on the CD version. Two tracks, "Jingle Bells" and "Let It Snow", which had clearly audible handclaps at the beginning and at the end of the performance (and therefore couldn't be faded out) can be found on the mentioned import disk and on the DVD's PCM soundtrack. "Children of Christmas" (a Plácido Domingo Jr. composition originally introduced in "Christmas In Vienna IV" by Plácido Domingo and Michael Bolton) and "Ay" Para Navidad" can be found exclusively on the DVD. Currently unavailable on any official release is the "Overture" (which can be found on the DVD, but abridged with sound effects). So here's the actual running order: "Overture", 20, 2, 1, 11, 3, 4, "Children of Christmas", 16, 17, 6, 15, 8, "Let it snow", 5, "Ay! Para Navidad", 9, 19, 14, 18, 12, 13, "Jingle Bells", 7, 21, 10;
If you still doubt about the quality of this performance, let me say one for sure: As other volumes in the series will slowly disappear (as some of them have already in the US), this one is a matter of decades and when you buy this one, you will have joyful Christmas hours for many, many Christmases to come.
The Three Tenors Christmas Poster
Resplendent in voice and manner, José Carreras, Placido Domingo, and Luciano Pavarotti deliver 21 songs of traditional sacred music and secular numbers in a remarkable 1999 live recording from the opulent Viennese concert hall (Konzerthaus), with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and a renowned choir. The Three Tenors are practically as famous as the faces of Mount Rushmore and inspire perhaps even more awe and adulation around the world than the four presidents. The performances--whether alone, in tandem, or simply as the threesome that has made them collectively famous--are generally impeccable for their passion, nuance, and sheer tour de force vocal artistry. Reaching often into the classical realm for such works as the traditional German carol "Susani," Strauss's and Brahms's "Wiegenlied," plus traditional Polish and Spanish pieces, the trio also visits Pavarotti's "Ave Maria, dolce Maria" (cowritten with Vittoriano Benvenuti), and "Un nuevo siglo," written by Domingo's son. Only John Lennon and Yoko Ono's "Happy Christmas/War Is Over" doesn't quite work in this grand setting. --Martin KellerBroadway & Vocalists Music CDs
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