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ANDRE KOSTELANETZ AND HIS ORCHESTRA

THE COMPLETE CHRISTMAS ALBUMS (2CD)
Label REAL GONE MUSIC
Catalog RGM0812
Format CD
Discs 2
Category ROCK/POPS
Street Date 2018-11-09
Description
• Along with Ray Conniff, Percy Faith, and Mitch Miller, Andre Kostelanetz Was One of the Great Orchestral Conductors/Arrangers Under the Columbia Label Umbrella
• First Made His Name Bringing Classical Music to the Masses Via CBS Radio
• Reportedly Sold over 52 Million Records and Set the World Record for Attendance at a Classical Concert When 250,000 People Showed Up to a 1979 Performance in Central Park
• In His Discography of Over 100 Releases, Kostelanetz’s Christmas Albums Are Among the Most Treasured
• Now, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records Present The Complete Christmas Albums, a 2-CD, 42-Track Set
• Includes the Albums Joy to the World: The Music of Christmas (1959), Wonderland of Christmas (1963), and Wishing You a Merry Christmas (1965), on Which He Was Joined by Vocalist Phyllis Curtin and The St. Kilian Boy Choir
• Wishing You a Merry Christmas Makes Its CD Debut
• Also Includes a Host of Holiday Bonuses Featuring His Rare 1950 Single of “White Christmas” and a Performance of The Nutcracker Suite Featuring Peter Ustinov
• Basically Kostelanetz’s Complete Christmas Recordings (Except He Made Several Recordings of The Nutcracker)
• Sparklingly Remastered in Original Mono and “360 Sound” Stereo by Maria Triana at Sony’s Battery Studios
• Notes by The Second Disc’s Joe Marchese
• Includes Photos from the Columbia Vaults
• Beautiful Christmas Music Collection in the Tradition of Real Gone’s Prior Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, and Mitch Miller Compilations
tracklisting
CD 1:
Bonus Track:
1. White Christmas
Joy to the World: The Music of Christmas
2. The First Noel/It Came upon a Midnight Clear/Silent Night Holy Night/Oh Little Town of Bethlehem/Hark the Herald Angels Sing/Oh Come All Ye Faithful/Sugar Plum Fairy Interlude/Waltz of the Flowers
3. What Child Is This?/Joy to the World
4. White Christmas
5. Sleigh Ride
6. Away in the Manger/We Three Kings of Orient Are
7. March of the Toys/Toyland
8. O Holy Night
9. The Skaters’ Waltz
Bonus Tracks:
10. Nutcracker Suite Op. 71a: Miniature Overture/March/Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy/Russian Dance/Arabian Dance/Chinese Dance/Dance of the Flutes/Waltz of the Flowers
11. My Favorite Things
12. Greensleeves

CD 2:
Wonderland of Christmas:
1. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer/Jingle Bells
2. Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town/Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
3. The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You)
4. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
5. It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
6. The First Noel/It Came Upon the Midnight Clear/Oh Come All Ye Faithful
7. Winter Wonderland/I Saw Mommy Kissing
Santa Claus:
8. White Christmas
9. Silver Bells/Shake Me I Rattle (Squeeze Me I Cry)
10. Christmas Chopsticks
11. Sleigh Ride
12. Joy to the World/Silent Night Holy Night/Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly
Bonus Tracks:
13. Greensleeves
14. Ave Maria (Bach)
15. Ave Maria (Schubert)
Wishing You a Merry Christmas:
16. We Wish You a Merry Christmas
17. O Come All Ye Faithful
18. What Child Is This?
19. The First Noell/Joy to the World
20. Silent Night Holy Night
21. Christmas Chimes
22. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Angels We Have Heard on High
23. Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly/Jingle Bells
24. Away in a Manger
25. Three Kings of Orient Are
26. O Little Town of Bethelehem
27. O Holy Night
28. It Came upon the Midnight Clear/Away in a Manger
29. O Tannenbaum
30. We Wish You a Merry Christmas (Reprise)
 

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