Chanticleer - Let It Snow
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Artist: ChanticleerPerformer: Chanticleer
Composer: Franz Xaver Gruber
Composer: Ralph Martin
Composer: Adolphe Adam
Composer: Richard Storrs Willis
Composer: Various Composers
Composer: Christmas Traditional
Composer: Mel Torme
Composer: Hugh / Blane
Composer: Franz Schubert
Composer: Jule Styne
Composer: Eric Barnum
Composer: John Francis Wade
Conductor: Joseph Jennings
Orchestra: Chanticleer Holiday Orchestra
Edition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Music Label: Warner Classics
Soundtracks:
- Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
- The Christmas Song
- Ding Dong! Merrily On High
- It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
- Medley: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Feliz Navidad
- Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
- Ave Maria
- Silent Night
- Sweeter Still
- O, Holy Night
- O Come, All Ye Faithful
- Holiday Cheer
Music reviews of Let It Snow
Music Review: Not Chanticleer's Best Offering
Rating: 4 Stars
Chanticleer is an a capella ensemble that has gained popularity in the mid 1990's due to it's beautiful and at times haunting sound and a renewed public interest in early classical music. Their previous releases at Christmas have been well received by loyal fans with good reason--they are fine recordings of beautiful music. My guess is that their most recent collection LET IT SNOW may not be as well received by Chanticleer's fans as their earlier recordings.
To be fair, their musicianship is consistent on this recording as it is in their past ventures. Some of the tracks are worth hearing: traditional favorites such as "Ave Maria" "Silent Night" "O Come All Ye Faithful and "O Holy Night." The foray into more contemporary Christmas songs such as "Let it Snow," "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "The Christmas Song" is fine even though some Chanticleer purists may disagree. For me the arrangements of medleys, one of "God Rest ye Merry, Gentlemen" and Feliz Navidad" the other being one called "Holiday Cheer" are troublesome. The first medley not only pairs two songs that do not belong together, it drags. The second sounds a bit too gimmicky, at least for my taste. I'm not saying that groups cannot have fun with Christmas music. Many Christmas songs are supposed to be nothing but fun, but the fun has to work, and in the case of the second medley, it just doesn't work.
Now don't get me wrong. It's not a horrible recording and if you take out about ten minutes of this CD, you'd have a nearly perfect recording. This collection does not deserve a home with Elmo and Patsy's Christmas collection that gave us the immortal "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer" and "Percy the Puny Poinsettia" or the Wilson Phillips HEY SANTA. Most of the tracks are performed well; it's just not in the same category as Chanticleer's other holiday offerings.
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