The Golden Age of Light Music: Christmas Celebration / Faith, Mantovani, Fiedler, etc.

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Album Summary

Conductors

• Faith, Percy
• Fiedler, Arthur
• Mantovani
• Melachrino, George
• Morley, Angela
• Vaughn, Billy

Ensemble

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Composers

• John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (1820 - 1891)
• Claude Thornhill (1909 - 1965)
• Irving Berlin (1888 - 1989)
• Leroy Anderson (1908 - 1975)
• Angela Morley (1923 - 2009)
• Mykola Leontovych (1877 - 1921)
• Lewis Redner (1831 - 1908)
• Felix Mendelssohn (1809 - 1847)
• Johnny Marks (Songwriter) (1909 - 1985)
• George Frederick Handel (1685 - 1759)
• Harry Parr-Davies (1914 - 1955)
• J. Fred Coots (1897 - 1985)
• Franz Gruber (Composer) (1787 - 1863)
• John Wainwright (died 1767)
• James Pierpont (1822 - 1893)
• Christmas Traditional
• Thomas ("Tommie") P. Connor (1904 - )
• John Francis Wade (1711 - 1786)
• Felix Bernard (1897 - 1944)
• Buddy Kaye (1918 - 2002)
• Richard Storrs Willis (1819 - 1900)
• Emile Waldteufel (1837 - 1915)

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Works Details

Pierpont, James : Jingle Bells

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 1 min. 38 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1850

Hopkins, John Henry : We three kings

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1857

Mendelssohn, Felix : Festgesang "Hark! The herald angels sing"

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Notes: Composition written: 1840.
• Running Time: 2 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1840

Traditional, Christmas : Good King Wenceslas (Piae Cantiones, 1582)

• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Running Time: 2 min. 48 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1582

Thornhill, Claude : Snowfall

• Conductor: Angela Morley
• Running Time: 3 min. 4 sec.
• Period Time: Modern

Marks, Johnny : Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

• Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
• Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1949

Conn, Thomas ("Tommie") P. : I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus

• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Running Time: 2 min. 10 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Vocal
• Written: 1952

Berlin, Irving : Holiday Inn

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 3 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1942

Traditional, Christmas : The First Nowell (English)

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 3 min. 24 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1823

Handel, George Frideric : Joy to the World (theme by Handel)

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 2 min. 27 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1742

Traditional, Christmas : Nazareth

• Conductor: Mantovani
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.

Wade, John Francis : O Come, All Ye Faithful (Adeste fideles)

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 2 min. 17 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1751

Traditional, Christmas : Deck the Halls (Welsh)

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 1 min. 37 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: by 1784

Anderson, Leroy : Sleigh Ride

• Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
• Running Time: 3 min. sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1948

Davies, Harry Parr : Fairy on the Christmas Tree

• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Running Time: 1 min. 56 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Bernard, Felix : Winter Wonderland

• Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
• Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1934

Morley, Angela : Christmas Sleigh Bells, for orchestra (after the Romance and Troika from Prokofiev's "Lieutenant Kij

• Conductor: Angela Morley
• Running Time: 2 min. 59 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Coots, John Frederick : Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town

• Conductor: Arthur Fiedler
• Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Written: 1934

Kaye, Buddy : Christmas Alphabet, song

• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Running Time: 2 min. 2 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas

Traditional, Christmas : God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)

• Conductor: George Melachrino
• Running Time: 2 min. 57 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Christmas

Leontovych, Mykola : Carol of the Bells

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.
• Period Time: Modern
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1910

Gruber, Franz : Silent Night

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1818

Willis, Richard Storrs : It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 2 min. 31 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: 1850

Traditional, Christmas : I Saw Three Ships, carol

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 2 min. 1 sec.
• Period Time: Renaissance
• Written: circa 1666

Redner, Lewis : O Little Town of Bethlehem

• Conductor: Billy Vaughn
• Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Choral
• Written: 1868

Traditional, Christmas : Angels From the Realms Of Glory

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 1 min. 23 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1816

Wainwright, John : Christians awake! salute the happy morn

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 1 min. 28 sec.
• Period Time: Classical
• Form: Choral
• Written: circa 1750

Traditional, Christmas : O Tannenbaum (O Christmas Tree) (German)

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 3 min. 13 sec.
• Form: Christmas
• Written: circa 1820

Waldteufel, Emile : Les Patineurs Valse ("Skater's Waltz"), Op. 183

• Conductor: Mantovani
• Running Time: 2 min. 53 sec.
• Period Time: Romantic
• Form: Waltz
• Written: 1882

Handel, George Frideric : Der Messias

• Conductor: Percy Faith
• Running Time: 4 min. 18 sec.
• Period Time: Baroque
• Form: Cantata/Oratorio
• Written: 1741