Bellosh 3,419 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 bumping this topic to say this album is on full rotation for me now. Disco Stu 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 17, 2021 Share Posted November 17, 2021 On 17/11/2021 at 9:51 AM, Bellosh said: bumping this topic to say this album is on full rotation for me now. Nice. Both JW/BPO Christmas albums are cornerstones of my late year listening. However, my one nitpick as a giant Leroy Anderson fan: Anderson's "Christmas Festival" is and always will be the KING of holiday orchestral arrangements, it is perfect, but neither recording by JW and the Pops is exactly right for me. The 1980 recording is the original instrumental arrangement but doesn't have the glorious but optional pipe organ part in the grand finale. The 1992 album is very nice but the choir is not part of the original Anderson arrangement. You can hear the glorious organ part starting around 8:08 in the great Slatkin recording with the BBC Concert Orchestra. It's so perfect right at the finale at 8:51 too. That said, the 1992 JW recording of Anderson's immortal "Sleigh Ride" has always been my definitive go-to. Bayesian and Bellosh 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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