Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

Home for the Holidays

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Overview

Home for the Holidays offers familiar Christmas music in light classical and easy listening arrangements, performed with festive cheer by John Morris Russell and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Featured performers include tenor Rodrick Dixon, violinists Timothy Lees and Gabriel Pegis, and pianist Julie Spangler, and the orchestra is joined by the May Festival Chorus and the Winton Woods High School Varsity Ensemble, so there is a fairly wide variety of vocal, choral, and instrumental settings of these perennial favorites. The scoring of the orchestra is quite lush and warm, typical of pops fare, and the overall moods of the CD are sweet, sentimental, and nostalgic, reminiscent of many commercial holiday albums that were popular in the 1950s and 1960s. Because this package is unpretentious and relaxed in atmosphere, it will appeal to casual listeners and find a practical use as background music for Christmas parties. But be sure to adjust the volume to a comfortable level for home listening, because the music is sometimes big and brassy. ~ Blair Sanderson

Product Details

Release Date: 09/25/2012
Label: Fanfare Cincinnati
UPC: 0870362000013
Rank: 172655

Tracks

  1. Deck the Halls
  2. O Holy Night
  3. We Three Kings
  4. I Believe
  5. Jolly Old St. Nicholas / Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
  6. Angel's Dance
  7. Home for the Holidays
  8. Go Tell it on the Mountain
  9. Ave Maria
  10. L'Arlesienne~Farandole
  11. Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus (Nimrod from Enigma Variations)
  12. Sleigh Ride
  13. A Winter Miracle (Winter/Hanukkah O Hanukkah)
  14. Parade of the Wooden Soldiers
  15. We Wish You a Merry Christmas

Album Credits

Performance Credits

John Morris Russell   Primary Artist,Conductor
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra   Primary Artist,Orchestra
Robert Porco   Choir Director
Julie Spangler   Piano
Cincinnati May Festival Chorus   Choir/Chorus
Timothy Lees   Violin
Rodrick Dixon   Tenor (Vocal)
Gabriel Pegis   Violin
Winton Woods Varsity Ensemble   Ensemble
New York Voices   Choir/Chorus
David Bell   Ensemble Director

Technical Credits

Julie Spangler   Arranger
Hershy Kay   Arranger
David Snyder   Arranger
John Morris Russell   Composer,Liner Notes,Choral Adaptation
Trish Carmichael   Cover Design,Photo Illustration
David Hamilton   Arranger
Leon Jessel   Composer
Thomas C. Moore   Editing
Steven Reineke   Arranger
Timothy Berens   Composer
Joseph D. Price   Arranger
Roberto Trevino   Production Assistant
Alma Russell   Narrator
David Marchione   Assistant Engineer
William Schermerhorn   Lyricist
Wesley Whatley   Composer
Steven Amundson   Composer
Edward Elgar   Original Material
Charles Gounod   Composer
Morton Gould   Arranger
Robert Allen   Composer
Darmon Meader   Producer,Vocal Arrangement
Adolphe Adam   Composer
Michael Brorby   Engineer
Al Stillman   Lyricist
Antonio Vivaldi   Original Material
Leroy Anderson   Composer
Elaine Martone   Producer
Arthur Harris   Arranger,Orchestration
John Henry Hopkins, Jr.   Composer
Brian Stokes Mitchell   Narrator
Georges Bizet   Composer
Michael Bishop   Editing,Engineer
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