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List Price: $16.98 | | Label: EMI Classics
Salesrank: 2989
Released: October 25, 1990 |
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| Media: Audio CD |
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A Little Christmas Music Track Listing:
1. Here We Come A-Wassailing
2. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
3. Little Drummer Boy
4. I Wonder as I Wander
5. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
6. Es Ist Ein Ros' Entsprungen
7. Ding Dong! Merrily on High
8. Stille Nacht
9. O Little Town of Bethlehem
10. Little Christmas Music (Medley À la Mozart)
11. Coventry Carol (Lully, Lullay)
12. Boar's Head Carol
13. Gaudete
14. Joy to the World
15. Ríu, Ríu, Chíu (A Carol of the Immaculate Conception)
16. Niño Querido (The Beloved Child)
17. Villancico Catalán (Peasants Harvesting Fruit Greet the Birth)
18. Deck the Hall
19. Wexford Carol
20. Gift (Simple Gifts)
21. Patapan and Farandole
Editorial Review:
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Media Type: CD
Artist: KING'S SINGERS
Title: LITTLE CHRISTMAS MUSIC
Street Release Date: 09/18/1997
Domestic
Genre: XMAS CLASSICAL VOCAL
A Little Christmas Music Reviews:
Excellent holiday CD 
2008-08-12 - Great CD full of holiday classics from fun (We Wish You a Merry Christmas) to beautiful (Es Ist Ein' Ros' Entsprungen) - highly recommended!
Excellent choice
2007-12-18 - Excellent selection of music; various musical styles from very classic to pop but always performed well - both technically and with creativity and style. People who enjoy what the King Singers bring to music will also enjoy this selection.
Delightful, splendid
2007-12-13 - This was the first Christmas CD I ever bought and I still regard it as the best I have. It covers the range from the sacred to the merry, worshipful to cheer, and every song is a gem. It includes what is simply the best recording of 'Gaudete, Christus Est Natus' that I've ever heard, and one of the finest renditions of 'Patapan And Farandole'. The more traditional carols such as 'Deck The Hall' are delivered with aplomb and celebration.
If you only want one Christmas CD, this is the one to buy.
a voice teacher and early music fan
2006-11-28 - WELL!!!THIS IS DIFFERENT!!!!!
The King's Singers come to us steeped in the 500 year old English tradition of choral singing; and that's fine with me.!!!There are 6 singers in this group (the personnel change from time to time)namely: Jeremy Jackman and Alastair Hume (countertenors)- Robert Chilcott (tenor)- Bruce Russell and Simon Carrington (baritones) and Stephen Connolly (bass). They are very capably accompanied by the City of London Sinfonia and Brass Quintet conducted by Richard Hickox.
An added PLUS is the great Kiri Te Kanawa who sings an arrangement by Daryl Runswick entitled "A Little Christmas Music (Medley a la Mozart)". It's a hodge-podge of Mozart melodies sewn together in a rather haphazard manner, and meant to be humorous. I guess this type of composition does not appeal to me personally, and I'm sorry that Kiri's glorious voice was wasted. However, that's only MY opinion; I am certain others may disagree.
This album is really a mixture of Christmas tunes and that's partly what makes it interesting. And, of course it is masterfully sung by the King's singers;I enjoy all their discs; especially the recording of Gilbert and Sullivan tunes. Some of the arrangements on this disc are somewhat esoteric, and I'm not too fond of the very STRANGE arrangement (again by Daryl Runswick) of the Coventry Carol, but 'to each his own'. Their opening selection:"Here We Come a-wassailing" (arr. Robert Chilcott) is a great opening number and I must say that it's the best arrangement I have ever heard of this selection.
Let's face it:the KING'S SINGERS are perfection. But don't forget our American group:Chanticleer.
like all but one track 
2006-02-02 - With the exception of track 11 (The Coventry Carol, Lully lulla) I really like this CD. I personally prefer the traditional renditions of The Coventry Carol. I do not like the "modern" harmonics and arrangement of it on this CD. Otherwise, it is very fine, indeed.
