Emma: ****.5
Charlie: ****.5
Emma: Wow. I didn't think I had heard this before, but turns out I have, when I was young enough to absorb every whimsical bit of festive brass fancy. A bit cheeky sometimes, but playfully, and genuinely beautiful sometimes too. I love this one.
Charlie: This fantastic album ticks all the boxes: beautiful performance, great arrangements, traditional warmth and modern flair/weirdness. The arrangement of 'Für Elise' in particular is a study in the kind of music we can't do anymore, because copyright. It's like sampling, using 19th-century technology (i.e. written sheet music). Brass players would have the strength and balance of character to pull something like this off, wouldn't they? Excellent, all 'round.
Would you?: YES
4 comments:
and how could you not love the album cover? Whee!
Declan is big into learning instruments right now. He's fascinated by the trombone and things everything is a flute - sounds like this might be a good into Christmas Album for him?
Totally! This and that 'Big Bird's Guide To The Orchestra' record. He needs that.
Got it, played it while writing Christmas letters.
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