Seattle Symphony Orchestra - Holiday Classics - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Seattle Symphony’s first holiday album embraces works composed specifically for Christmas as well as other pieces that convey a universal message of peace, love and hope—the essence of humanity’s highest aspirations. Music Director Gerard Schwarz asked two composers, the Symphony’s Composer in Residence Samuel Jones and Seattle Symphony Principal Oboe Ben Hausmann, to “make the music their own” by scoring several of the pieces to retain the unaffected simplicity of these well-known Christmas and concert works. Schwarz joined them in this task, arranging or editing several of the pieces, with the resulting works celebrating the remarkable artistry of the musicians of the Orchestra. In these new settings, recorded entirely in Benaroya Hall, the music emerges with honest, untarnished beauty. Album Tracks 1. The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A I. Miniature Overture 00 03 12 2. Stille Nacht (Silent Night) (Arr. G. Schwarz) 00 06 21 3. Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 III. Allegro (Edited G. Schwarz for Orchestra) 00 02 36 4. Variations on Greensleeves 00 04 33 5. The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A II. March 00 02 35 6. Canon and Gigue in D Major Canon 00 05 11 7. O Little Town of Bethlehem (Arr. S. Jones for Orchestra) 00 03 42 8. Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 VIII. Bourree (Edited G. Schwarz for Orchestra) 00 02 12 9. III. Dance of the Sugar - Plum Fairy 00 01 45 10. IV. Russian Dance, InchTrepakInch 00 01 07 11. Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 VI. Air (Edited G. Schwarz for Orchestra) 00 03 39 12. Gesu Bambino (Arr. B. Hausmann for Orchestra) 00 05 21 13. Water Music Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348 IX. Hornpipe (Edited G. Schwarz for Orchestra) 00 02 32 14. Coventry Carol (Arr. B. Hausmann for Orchestra) 00 04 28 15. The Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A VIII. Waltz of the Flowers 00 07 21 16. We Three Kin