Christmas With the Stars 2

Thomas Hampson (Performer), Joel Frederiksen (Performer), Loreena McKennitt (Composer), Christmas Traditional (Composer), Hieronymus Praetorius (Composer), Charles Ives (Composer), Antonio Vivaldi (Composer), Christopher Tye (Composer), Felix [1] Mendelssohn (Composer), George Frederick Handel (Composer), Thomas Pasatieri (Composer), Mel Torme (Composer), Geoffrey O'Hara (Composer), Adolphe Adam (Composer), Andrew Parrott (Composer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), George Thalben-Ball (Composer), Franz Xaver Gruber (Composer), Michel Corboz (Conductor), Ton Koopman (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Thomas Hampson, Joel Frederiksen
• Conductor: Michel Corboz, Ton Koopman
• Composer: Loreena McKennitt, Christmas Traditional, Hieronymus Praetorius, Charles Ives, Antonio Vivaldi, et al.
• Audio CD (August 24, 1999)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Elektra / Wea
• ASIN: B00000JXPQ
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #364,810 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Snow (To Drive the Cold Winter Away)

2. Coventry Carol (2): "Lully, Lulla, Thou Little Tiny Child"

3. In dulci iubilo

4. A Christmas Carol, song for voice & piano, S. 228 (K. 6B27d)

5. [Unspecified] Et Exsultavit (from a Magnificat in G minor) [From "Magni

6. While shepherds watched their flocks by night (Tune: Winchester)

7. Fulfillment, carol (American)

8. Hark! the Herald Angels Sing (adapted by W. H. Cummings from Mendelssoh

9. For Unto Us A Child Is Born [From Messiah]

10. Alleluia

11. Oh, du fröhliche, oh, du selige (German)

12. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)

13. I Walked Today Where Jesus Walked

14. Cantique de Noël for voice & orchestra "O Holy Night"

15. The Virgin Mary had a baby boy

16. Chorale: Wie Soll Ich Dich Empfangen [From "Christmas Oratio"]

17. There is no Rose of Such Virtue (20th c., English), carol

18. Shepherds, Rejoice

19. Rocking Carol (Czech)

20. Les anges dans nos campagnes (French), carol (AKA Angels We Have Heard On H

See all 22 tracks on this disc

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Devout and devotional, Christmas with the Stars, Vol. 2 showcases many quality choirs, orchestras, and ensembles with appearances by the group Chanticleer, pop singer Natalie Cole, and Celtic singer composer Loreena McKennitt. Opera stars Placido Domingo, José Carreras, and a handful of others are joined by the critically acclaimed St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, the BBC Philharmonic, the Choir of New College, Oxford, and the Boston Camerata in uplifting performances that will send spirits soaring. Here's a Christmas record steeped in Old World musical tradition with operatic brilliance and the sonorous comfort and joy of brass, strings, percussion, and the splendor of human voices realized in colorful harmony and veneration. --Martin Keller