SKU: LO.20-1079L
UPC: 000308032338.
3-5 octaves- Level II+ - Christmas- This beautiful tapestry combines the familiar tunes for Away in the Manger and The Friendly Beasts. Added color is achieved through the use of LV, acho, and optional chimes. The work is appropriate for creating that contemplative moment in the worship service or concert.
SKU: GI.W104
Every year, Christmas is new—new tour, new music, a new feeling of expectation of joy and a warmth special for Christmas. Add a dose of tradition and it becomes a new Christmas carol. The World for Christmas contains a balanced mix of uptempo and contemplative music for the Christmas season that will easily set your desired Christmas atmosphere. Many of the songs contain a bit of both, like Mel Torme’s “The Christmas Song†and the beautiful “Santa Baby.†“Staffan Stalledräng†takes a leaping pace, and Joni Mitchell's “River†perfectly depicts that feeling when the joy of Yuletide contrasts with how to feel. The song “Gläns Över Sjö Och Strand†is unexpectedly inspired by the pianist Lennart Simonsson. We have been working with good friends on some arrangements and audio mixes. Mikael and Göran have come up with new harmonic colors for the arrangements “Santa Baby†and “Julfemman.†Tony from Take 6 has beautifully mixed Fredrik’s arrangement of “Sleigh Ride.†Ilkka, who works with Finnish colleagues in Rajaton, has spread a light from the east. Now a thousand Christmas lights are lit. Erik and Luca from the Italian Cluster have also lent us their talent and taste in “Let It Snow,†The artist, Hans Lif, was tasked with making cookie cutters for the nice gingerbread cookies on the album cover. We sincerely hope that our children will get The World for Christmas. The blue green forever turning world. Nothingmore, nothing less.  .
SKU: HL.49047080
ISBN 9783795757755. UPC: 841886004733.
The Christmas Choirbook is a collection of up-to-date, colorful arrangements of 22 Christmas songs from throughout the world. Among classics, dressed in new harmonic sounds, you will enjoy jazz and pop intonations, as well as gospel renditions of Go Tell It and Joyful. The skandinavien Christmas songs are particularly special: contemplative and musical, even droll as in the story about the Christmas troll in the finnish Tomtarnass Julnatt. The Christmas Choirbook offers many stylistic choices for the Christmas and Advent season choir music, so let the available CD (ED9896-50) inspire you in the joyful singing of these pieces. Of course the recordings, meant only as a first and hopefully appealing impression, represent only a few of the many possible interpretations you will bring to the arrangements. Full verses were intentionally not recorded, although we did overlay simple instrumental accompaniments to the a cappella movements.In addition, the CD includes pure choire versions as well as some sing-a-longs, i.e. instrumental tracks for you to use as half-playback.
SKU: LO.99-3924L
UPC: 000308151091.
Perfo rmance/accompaniment CD plus Split-track for When I Think Upon Christmas (10/5191L) This contemplative Christmas hymn has a Celtic flavor, highlighted by the optional acoustic instrumental ensemble. It’s a lovely reflection on the meaning of the Incarnation and includes a chorus of THE FIRST NOWELL.
SKU: LO.30-3619L
UPC: 000308151084.
Instr umental Ensemble Score and Parts for When IThink Upon Christmas (10/5191L) This contemplative Christmas hymn has a Celtic flavor, highlighted by the optional acoustic instrumental ensemble. It’s a lovely reflection on the meaning of the Incarnation and includes a chorus of THE FIRST NOWELL.
SKU: FG.55011-455-5
ISBN 9790550114555.
This cycle of carols, to the poetry of Christina Rossetti, was assembled piecemeal over a number of years, gradually acquiring a larger dramatic and harmonic arch shape as new settings were added. I was particularly attracted to Rossetti's conflation of the dark, fallow winter landscape with that of the soul waiting for salvation. The cycle traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. The opening carol embodies this spirit, with passages of diffuse, roving harmony interspersed with meditative, lyrical pedals, calling out the night watch and dreaming of a far-off summer of the spirit. Earth Grown Old is a kind of double carol, setting two complete poems, their lines at first presented separately as a still, expectant chorale and a jubilant dance, then progressively interwoven toward a fervent climax before once again receding into quiet. In the bleak mid-winter, which sets a highly compressed version of Rossetti's original poem, presents an enfeebled landscape frozen in time, in dire need of deliverance. A gentle melody weaves its way through static drones, broken by an angels' chorus announcing the joy to come. Love Came Down at Christmas ends the waiting, with its gently falling, overlapping lines building to a final revelation, the mystery of Christmas at last made real.
SKU: HL.48024723
UPC: 888680955663.
This cycle of carols to Christina Rossetti's poems traces the long nights of watchfulness before Christmas, with the great event constantly deferred, only glimpsed periodically in different visions before the music turns inward again to contemplation. The carols can be performed separately, but they work the best as a cycle.
