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On the one hand there is music written to win a prize, fulfill a commission, make a name. The music in this collection isn't that sort. This is what we call Home Brew, written to be played in private by the avid amateur. In Home Brew, ambition takes a back seat to pleasure and craft takes precedence over academic fashion. What can be homier than a score that lets a pair of family members sit down together at the piano to play out variations on familiar holiday tunes? This visit from our three composer-kings shows them not holding court or issuing decrees, but instead bearing gifts suitable for a holy family, but not too posh for the humblest abode. Here they employ their artistry as so many great masters before them have done, taking well-known themes and spinning them out into something new, handcrafting familiar materials into gifts for the household.
All works for Piano Four-Hand
Performed by Ivory Crush
Kenn Willson and Maria Choban, piano
Program
Douglas Townsend (World Premiere Recording)
1. Fantasy on the Christmas Carol "Il est ne"
2. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3. Silent Night
4. Fantasy on the Coventry Carol
5. Fantasy on the Christmas Carol "Here We Go A-Wassailing"
6. All Through the Night
Appalachian Christmas Carols (after John Jacob Niles) by Vincent Persichetti
7. Down in Yon Forest
8. The Cherry Tree
9. The Seven Joys of Mary
10. Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head
11. Jesus Born in Beth'ny
12. Lulle Lullay
13. Jesus the Christ is Born
Christmas Music transcribed for Piano-Four Hands, set or written by Norman Dello Joio
14. O, Come All Ye Faithful
15. The Holy Infant's Lullaby
16. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
17. A Christmas Carol
18. Silent Night
19. Bright Star (Light of the World)
20. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
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