Sleigh Ride
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Composer: Lowell MasonComposer: Leroy Anderson
Composer: Ken Darby
Composer: George Frederick Handel
Composer: Ottorino Respighi
Composer: Patrick Hollenbeck
Composer: Noel Regney
Composer: Sammy Nestico
Composer: David [Composer] Chase
Composer: Adolphe Adam
Composer: Don Sebesky
Composer: Nan Schwartz Mishkin
Conductor: Keith Lockhart
Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra
Performer: Alfred Boe
Performer: Jesse Goldberg
Performer: Renese King
Edition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2005-10-04
Music Label: Artemis Classics
Soundtracks:
- Joy to the World
- Sleigh Ride, for orchestra (or string orchestra)
- 'Twas the Night Before Christmas
- Messiah, oratorio, HWV 56: Hallelujah Chorus
- The Adoration of the Magi
- Songs from the Hill Folk, medley
- Do You Hear What I Hear?
- Kijé Takes a Ride (after Prokofiev)
- Winter Weather Medley
- Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra ('Minuit, Chrétiens,' 'O Holy Night')
- Joy!
- Happy Holidays
Music reviews of Sleigh Ride
Music Review: Fresh stuff --- for Christmas, anyway.
Rating: 4 Stars
Christmas music is, for the most part, terribly cliché--- quadruply so if you're a musician of any flavor. So I suspect that many Boston Symphony/Pops musicians are weary of playing the tunes on this album. But I'm pretty confident in saying that this album is the least cliché holiday album you're likely to come across for a while.
Yes, yes, they dig up some old standards, "Sleigh Ride" included. And while we don't really need another recording of it, at least it's a NEW recording, with (to my amateur ears) some detectable Lockhartness in it. The other "traditional" tracks include solo vocal settings of "O Holy Night" and "Do You Hear What I Hear", plus others.
The fresher stuff is what makes the album worth the price. The Joy to the World arrangement by Randol Alan Bass is fantastic -- which is remarkable, since most Joy to the World arrangements are the very definition of Christmas cliché. "Songs from the Hill Folk: Carols of Appalachia" is yet another Christmas medley, but it's a GOOD one, and its set of tunes is good a mix of sounds as well as of familiarity. "Kije Takes a Ride" is a jazz version of a Prokofiev tune that only orchestral buffs are likely to know, from a film that only hard-core film buffs are likely to have heard of. (But it's still unmistakeably Christmas.) "Winter Weather Medley" is a clever mix of three popsier tunes; it's got some weak spots, but it's a keeper nonetheless. "Joy!" is the Sebesky jazzish medley that was the "centerpiece" of "Holiday at Pops!" a few years back. It's nice, and most people eat it up. (I personally think it needs work, but I'm picky with stuff that tries to be jazz.) And the last track is "Happy Holidays", a straightforward arrangement of the Manhattan Transfer chart. Nothin' fancy, but a very listenable specimen of orchestral jazz (which is usually awful).
As far as recording quality goes, I /think/ you can tell that they're under their own label now, and aren't having their sessions mixed by guys from Sony anymore. But almost all the places this is detectable, it's not egregious at all -- in fact, it almost makes me think it's a superior recording model. (Almost.)
Overall, you're likely to have your own set of skippable tracks and repeat-'em-over-and-over tracks. But I think, for anyone curious enough to read these reviews in the first place, you won't go wrong for your money with "Sleigh Ride".
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SLEIGH RIDE features conductor Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops Orchestra in their 9th album together. Chock full of glittering holiday favorites, SLEIGH RIDE includes "Joy to the World", the Hallelujah Chorus (from The Messiah), "Twas the Night Before Christmas", "O Holy Night," and many others, performed by the Boston Pops Orchestra and featuring the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, John Oliver, conductor.Classical CDs
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