Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists - Caliban does Christmas
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Artist: Caliban Quartet of BassoonistsPerformer: Scott Alexander
Performer: Fraser Jackson
Performer: Kathlene McLean
Performer: Mathieu Lussier
Performer: Nadina Mackie Jackson
Composer: Leroy Anderson
Composer: Anonymous
Composer: Arrogant Worms
Composer: Dolores Claman
Composer: J. Fred Coots
Composer: Claude Gauthier
Composer: Irving Gordon
Composer: Valdemar "Valdy" Horsdal
Composer: Fraser Jackson
Composer: Joan / Springer, Phil Javits
Composer: Tom Lehrer
Composer: Frank Loesser
Composer: Sergey Prokofiev
Composer: Fred Silver
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2009-04-16
Music Label: Atma Classique
Soundtracks:
- Sleigh Ride, for orchestra (or string orchestra)
- Santa Claus is Comin' To Town
- I Saw Three Ships
- A Nutcracker Digest, for bassoon quartet (after Tchaikovsky)
- A Christmas carol
- Siberian Sleighride, for bassoon quartet
- What are you doing New Year's Eve?
- Secret Santa, song
- The Twelve Days of Christmas
- The 12 Days After Christmas, for chorus
- Santa Baby
- The Secret of Christmas, song
- Marie-Noël, song
- Too Fat for the Chimney, song
- Hockey Night in Canada, television series theme
- The Same Christmas Cake, song
- Megruli Alilo (Megrelian Ritual Song)
- Troika
Music reviews of Caliban does Christmas
Music Review: Definitely Different
Rating: 5 Stars
The Toronto-based Caliban Quartet Of Bassoonists - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Mathieu Lussier, Frasier Jackson and Kathleen McLean - who take their name from the weird creature in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, has been entertaining audiences around the world for the past 15 years.
For this Christmas CD, which came out in the fall of 2005, they are joined by these well-known Canadian instrumentalists: trumpet/flugelhorn-player Guido Basso, trumpeter Guy Few, trombonist Alain Trudel, guitarist Michael Francis, bass player Scott Alexander, drummer Brian Barlowe, and mallets/percussionist Mark Duggan.
One of Canada's best-known folk singers, Valdy (born Paul Valdemar Horsdal on 1 September 1945 in Ottawa) lends his voice and guitar to the traditional I Saw Three Ships as well as the James Van Heusen/Sammy Cahn tune, The Secret Of Christmas. Alan Gasser, Canada's resident expert on Georgian Folk Music, does Megruli Alilo, a traditional chant, from jazz singer Bonnie Brett we get Santa Claus Is Coming To Town, and another noted jazz vocalist, Heather Bambrick, lends her considerable talents to Frank Loesser's What Are You Doing New Year's Eve? and the tune made famous by Earthy Eartha Kitt, Santa Baby.
But the best, in terms of the vocals, belongs to one of the top musical comediennes ever produced in Canada - Mary Lou Falls - who begins her quartet of tunes with Tom Lehrer's biting A Christmas Carol, then follows a straight instrumental rendition of The Twelve Days Of Christmas with what happens during The 12 Days After Christmas. At track 14 she alarms the kiddies by asserting that Santa is "Too Fat For The Chimney" and then finishes her participation with The Same Christmas Cake - a tale of a cake that hung around for 30 years, going annually from family member to family member.
An unusual entry (to non-Canadians anyway) is The Theme From "Hockey Night In Canada." The long-time opening to the CBC's Saturday night icon was recently lost to the rival CTV network due to some idiotic argument over royalty payments to the tune's composer, Dolores Claman.
A multi-page insert (in both English and French, naturally) contains thumbnail information on each artist as well as a complete sessionography. Certainly not for all tastes, but if you like the unusual when it comes to Christmas music, you'll find it here.
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