Anderson, Leroy > A Christmas Festival

The 50 Most Essential Christmas Masterpieces

3 CD / X5 Group / 2011-10-25

Works: Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival; Hugh Martin / Ralph Blane: Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas (for the film Meet Me in St. Louis); George Frederick Handel: Joy to the World (theme by Handel...
Performers: Doll, Susanne; Ponti, Michael; Verhey, Emmy
Conductors: Arp, Klaus; Francis, Alun; Shaw, Robert; ; Beissel, Heribert; Suzuki, Masaaki; Tcherkasov, Gennady; Parry, David
Ensemble: ; Bach Collegium Japan; Caffé Concerto Ensemble; Camerata Antonio Luco; Musica Antiqua New York

This album gives you the most beloved Christmas songs to lively up the holiday. There are many ways to celebrate the wonder of Christmas, &...continue...

A Family Christmas

1 CD / Signum UK / 2010-08-07

Works: Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival; Sleigh Ride, popular song (with lyrics by Mitchell Parrish); Buddy Kaye: Christmas Alphabet, song; Traditional: Ah! Vous dirai-je, maman; Katherine K. Davis: The...
Performers: Aitken, Julie; Docherty, Niall; Mansfield, Roshni; McKechnie, Charlotte
Conductors: Bell, Christopher

Eton College Chapel Choir perform an enchanting selection of 20th Century French Choral and Organ music. As well as music by composers who were at...continue...
Recording information: RSNO Centre, Henry Wood Hall, Glasgow (09/14/2009-09/15/2009)....continue...

American Classics - Anderson: Sleigh Ride and other Holiday Favorites / Leonard Slatkin, BBC Concert Orchestra

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-10-28

Works: Leroy Anderson: Sleigh Ride; Horse and Buggy; Song of the Bells; Suite of Carols; The Waltzing Cat; A Christmas Festival; Golden Years; Suite of Carols (6), arranged for woodwind ensemble; China Doll...

"Christmas music is special because of the fact that Christmas is special; such an important religious holiday; so naturally anything associated with it has a...continue...

American Classics - Anderson: Orchestral Music Vol 4 / Leonard Slatkin, BBC Concert Orchestra

1 CD / Naxos (USA) / 2008-09-30

Works: Leroy Anderson: Irish Suite; Summer Skies, for orchestra; Scottish Suite; Blue Tango; Forgotten Dreams; Belle of the Ball; Alma Mater; A Christmas Festival; Edward MacDowell: To a Wild Rose
Performers: Criswell, Kim; Dazeley, William; Fleming, Cynthia
Conductors: Slatkin, Leonard
Ensemble: BBC Concert Orchestra

Here, in the first complete cycle of Anderson's orchestral music, the Anderson family has made available several pieces that the composer did not release, with...continue...

A Christmas Festival with Arthur Fiedler & the Boston Pops

1 CD / RCA Records / 1999-10-01

Works: Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival; Sleigh Ride; Irving Berlin: Holiday Inn; Felix Bernard: Winter Wonderland; Leon Jessel: Parade der Zinnsoldaten, Op. 123; Katherine K. Davis: The Little Drummer ...
Performers: Hirt, Al; Krips, Alfred; Litwin, Leo
Conductors: Fiedler, Arthur
Ensemble: Arthur Fiedler Chorus; Arthur Fiedler Orchestra; Boston Pops

This is Christmas! / The United States Air Force SO

1 CD / Altissimo / 1998-11-17

Works: Traditional: Deck the hall; God rest ye merry, gentlemen; Hawley Ades: A Festival of Carols; Johann Sebastian Bach: Sheep may safely graze (after Bach's The Hunt Cantata, BWV 208); John Henry Hopkins...
Conductors:
Ensemble: United States Army Air Force Symphony Orchestra

Sleighride! - Classic Christmas Favorites

1 CD / RCA Records / 1997-09-22

Works: Leroy Anderson: A Christmas Festival; Sleigh Ride; Lowell Mason: Joy to the World; Traditional: God rest ye merry, gentlemen; The Holly and the Ivy; Lully, lulla, thow littel tyne child "Coventry Car...
Performers: De Lancie, John; Domingo, Placido; Grady, John; Hirt, Al; Sonnleitner, Johannes
Conductors: Fiedler, Arthur; Ormandy, Eugene; Shaw, Robert; Froschauer, Helmuth; ; Kapp, Richard
Ensemble: Boston Pops; Canadian Brass; Philadelphia Orchestra; Philadelphia Orchestra Chorus; Philharmonia Virtuosi; Robert Shaw Chorale; Vienna Boys' Choir; Vienna Symphony Orchestra

A Christmas Fantasy / Huddersfield Choral Society, et al

1 CD / Chandos Records / 1995-11-01

Works: Christmas Traditional: We Wish You a Merry Christmas (English); God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English); The Twelve Days of Christmas; Sussex Carol ("On Christmas Night"); Leroy Anderson: A Christmas...
Performers: Anthony Cooke; Black Dyke Mills Band; Keith Rhodes; Society, Huddersfield Choral
Conductors: Newsome, Roy; Rhodes, Keith