Yuletide Treats

Handel, George Frideric, Liszt, Franz, różni kompozytorzy, Strauss, Johann, Tchaikovsky, Piotr

Duo Pleyel, Egarr, Richard, Nepomnyashchaya, Alexandra

CKD 757

Yuletide is the mid-winter period from Hannuka, through Christmas, to the celebration of Twelfth Night. From the late 1950s through the 1970s it was seemingly obligatory for all artists from Jazz to Punk to make a Christmas album. With Yuletide Treats, Duo Pleyel joins that spirit and tradition, with some of the greatest classical hits for your festive delight. Comprising keyboardists Alexandra Nepomnyashchaya and Richard Egarr, Duo Pleyel begins with three beautiful, transcendental and intimate movements from Franz Liszt’s ‘Christmas Tree Suite’. Then follows ‘For unto us a child is born’ and ‘Hallelujah’ from Handel’s Messiah. No New Year’s celebration is complete without the Strauss family’s ‘Blue Danube’ and ‘Radetzky March’. Finally, they present Tchaikovsky’s ‘Nutcracker Suite’. All performed on a Chris Maene Straight Strung Concert Grand, this album is to be listened to at high volume with a large glass of something delicious.

Works:

•Franz Liszt: Die Hirten an der Krippe "In dulci jubilo",
• Franz Liszt: Schlummerlied & Abendglocken aus Weihnachtsbaum
• Georg Friedrich Händel / Carl Czerny: For unto us a Child is born & Hallelujah aus Der Messias
• Johann Strauss II / Renaud de Vilbac / Duo Pleyel: An der schönen blauen Donau
• Johann Strauss I: Radetzky-Marsch
• Peter Tschaikowsky / Eduard Langer / Duo Pleyel: Nussknacker-Suite op. 71a

CD x 1

Linn

31.10.2024

691062075725