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A Romantic Christmas
A Romantic
Christmas
Available from December
2
ABC Classics
This disc features two major works and a
string of gems with a Christmas theme. Sergei Tanayev was a close
confidant of Tchaikovsky's and a trusted colleague who gave him
fearless advice that the composer trusted and
dreaded. He made a brilliant and pianistically
virtuosic arrangement of The
Nutcracker in 1892 at
the time of the first performance and Stephanie McCallum has
extracted and adapted the pieces as Tchaikovsky did in his first
Orchestral Suite from the ballet. Liszt
Weihnachtsbaum
was written
for his grandaughter, Daniella, daughter of Cosima by her first
husband, Hans Von Bulow. It dates from his later years and the
twelve pieces in the cycle feature engaging imaginative
arrangements alongside innovative and forward looking pieces that
anticipate twentieth century approaches to tonality and the
textural inventions of Impressionism. The disc opens with an
arrangement by Egon Petri, of whom Stephanie is a "grand-pupil" of
Bach's "Sheep may safely graze" and also features Percy Grainger's
transcription of the Sussex Mummers' Carol, and an impish and
ingenious arrangement of Jingle Bells by Chinese Australian, Julian
Yu.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH (1685-1750) transcribed
for piano by EGON PETRI (1881-1962)
Sheep May Safely
Graze
PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840-1893) transcribed for piano by SERGEI TANEYEV (1856-1915),
adapted from the complete ballet by STEPHANIE McCALLUM
The
Nutcracker Suite
Overture
March
Dance of the Sugar-Plum
Fairy
Trepak
Arabian Dance
Chinese Dance
Dance of the
Reed-Pipes
Waltz of the
Flowers
PERCY GRAINGER
(1882-1961)
The Sussex Mummers' Christmas
Carol
ERNO DOHNANYI
(1877-1960)
Pastorale (on
the Hungarian Christmas song ‘The
angel is from heaven’)
Three Romantic
Carols
PYOTR IL’YICH TCHAIKOVSKY
(1840-1893)
Weihnachten
ROBERT SCHUMANN (1810-1856) transcribed for
piano by FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Melodie
(Cantique de Noel)
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Weihnachtslied
FRANZ LISZT (1811-1886)
Weihnachtsbaum(complete)
Altes Weihnachtslied
(Old Christmas Carol)
O heilige Nacht! (O Holy
Night)
Die Hirten an der Krippe
(The Shepherds at the Manger) – Good Christian Men
Rejoice
Adeste Fideles – Oh Come all ye Faithful:
Gleichsam also Marsch der heiligen drei Könige (March of the
three Wise Men of the East)
