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Holiday Classics | Naxos 8572673

Holiday Classics

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Label: Naxos

Cat No: 8572673

Barcode: 0747313267378

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Christmas

Release Date: 31st October 2011

Contents

Works

Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a: Overture Miniature; March; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Russian Dance (Trepak); Waltz of the Flowers

Handel
Water Music, Suite No.1 in F major, HWV 348: Allegro, Bourree, Air & Hornpipe (ed. Gerard Schwarz for orchestra)

Pachelbel
Canon in D

Schwarz
Variations on Greensleeves

Gruber
Silent Night (arr. Gerard Schwarz)

Traditional
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Samuel Jones)

Traditional
Gesu Bambino (arr. Ben Hausmann)

Traditional
Coventry Carol (arr. Ben Hausmann)

Traditional
We Three Kings of Orient Are/We Wish You a Merry Christmas (arr. Gerard Schwarz for orchestra)

Artists

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

Works

Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker Suite, Op.71a: Overture Miniature; March; Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy; Russian Dance (Trepak); Waltz of the Flowers

Handel
Water Music, Suite No.1 in F major, HWV 348: Allegro, Bourree, Air & Hornpipe (ed. Gerard Schwarz for orchestra)

Pachelbel
Canon in D

Schwarz
Variations on Greensleeves

Gruber
Silent Night (arr. Gerard Schwarz)

Traditional
O Little Town of Bethlehem (arr. Samuel Jones)

Traditional
Gesu Bambino (arr. Ben Hausmann)

Traditional
Coventry Carol (arr. Ben Hausmann)

Traditional
We Three Kings of Orient Are/We Wish You a Merry Christmas (arr. Gerard Schwarz for orchestra)

Artists

Seattle Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

Gerard Schwarz

About

Seattle Symphony’s first holiday album embraces works composed specifically for Christmas, as well as other pieces that convey a universal message of peace, love and hope - the essence of humanity’s highest aspirations.

Music Director Gerard Schwarz asked two composers, the Symphony’s Composer in Residence Samuel Jones and Seattle Symphony Principal Oboe Ben Hausmann, to “make the music their own” by scoring several of the pieces to retain the unaffected simplicity of these well-known Christmas and concert works.

Schwarz joined them in this task, arranging or editing several of the pieces, with the resulting works celebrating the remarkable artistry of the musicians of the Orchestra.

In these new settings, recorded entirely in Benaroya Hall, the music emerges with honest, untarnished beauty.

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