Track Listing

1. Deck The Halls With Broughs Of Holly
2. Lo, How A Rose E're Blooming
3. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella
4. The First Nowell
5. Angels We Have Hard On High
6. We Three Kings Of Oreint Are
7. O Come, All Ye Faithful
8. O Sanctissima
9. O Tannenbaum
10. O Come, O Come, Emmanuel
11. Good King Weceslas
12. Silent Night, Holy Night
13. Joy To the World
14. The Twelve Days Of Christmas
15. Conventry Carol
16. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
17. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
18. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
19. Good Christian Men Rejoice
20. O Holy Night
21. What Child Is This?
22. Wassial Song
23. O Little Town Of Bethlehem
24. Away In A Manger
25. We Wish You A Merry Christmas

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1690 in Music
• Released on: 1991-07-16
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

Great alternative to Christmas songs
This is a terrific collection of Christmas music with the twist of a brass ensemble. I have used it to mix up a collection, and it really adds variety to the mix. Very well done.

Outstanding Musicality
Several raters have complained about the lack of a listing of the performers on this disc. The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble was nothing more than the principal and second players of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Perhaps "nothing more" is not the best way to describe this as the performers were, at the time, some of the best players in the US. Gilbert Johnson (trumpet) was considered (until his death from cancer a few years ago) one of the finest trumpeters to ever have played in a symphony orchestra. When I was growing up, Henry Charles Smith (trombone) was the model we all looked up to for how a orchestral principal trombone should sound. He was the Joseph Alessi of the time. The same could be said for Mason Jones (french horn) and Abe Torchinsky (tuba). All of these players had students who are playing in major symphony orchestras around the world and continue to inspire future performers through their many recordings. To my knowlege, the performers are:

Gilbert Johnson (Trumpet)
Seymour Rosenfeld (Trumpet)
Mason Jones (French Horn)
Henry Charles Smith (Trombone)
Tyrone Breuninger (Trombone)
M. Dee Stewart (Euphonium)
Abe Torchinsky (Tuba)

Cheers!

A True Classic
This CD is all instrumental of well known traditional christmas carols. One of the pieces is a brass version of "Twelve Days of Christmas" is my absolute, all time favorite version. We have enjoyed ours for years and bought two more to give to family members so that (hopefully) when we visit them over the holidays we can listen to the good stuff!