Why Another Christmas album? Because the Christmas season ideally offers free time and opportunities for leisure, meditation, and self-reflection - all of which need not necessarily occur exclusively in the sphere of religious spirituality. We can also put our holidays to good use simply by doing nothing, not planning too much, and taking advantage of the opportunity for everything beyond the limits of our "to do" agendas. Time! For encounters, conversations, and ideas. Free space and time enable us to suspend our everyday routines and perhaps to entertain the eyes with pictures that we haven't seen in a long time or haven't ever seen before - and the ears with ditto sounds. This release is intended especially for this "chronotopos!" Here the Singphoniker in no way wish to encroach on your time-space, providing it with an audio background or supplying the musical accompaniment. But if you want to close your eyes and open your ears, then the Singphoniker will be happy to join you. They would like to offer entertainment and to transmit joy in the form of many wonderful melodies and moods: the joy that comes with so many astonishing developments and combinations, with so many different elements and contrasts, with Christmas swing, with the classical tradition, with folk-song tones, and that ranges from the Singphonic special arrangement to the timeless classics of the modern era.

Tracklist:

The Christmas Song "Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire" (Arr. M. Carbow)
Christmas Oratorio, Bwv 248: No. 5, Wie Soll Ich Dich Empfangen (Arr. Die Singphoniker)
Little Drummer Boy (Arr. J. Westner)
Lieb Nachtigall, Wach Auf (Arr. B. Englbrecht)
Kommet, Ihr Hirten (Arr. B. Hofmann)
Let It Snow! (Arr. C. Schmidt)
Es Wird Scho Glei Dumpa (Arr. L. Thomas)
Ich Steh' An Deiner Krippen Hier, Bwv 469 (Arr. Die Singphoniker)
O Holy Night (Arr. L. Thomas)
Zu Bethlehem Geboren (Arr. For Vocal Ensemble)
4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel, Fp 152: No. 1, O Magnum Mysterium
4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel, Fp 152: No. 2, Quem Vidistis Pastores Dicite
4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel, Fp 152: No. 3, Videntes Stellam
4 Motets Pour Le Temps De Noel, Fp 152: No. 4, Hodie Christus Natus Est
Freu Dich Erd Und Sternenzelt (Arr. G. Weinberger)
O Tannenbaum "O Christmas Tree" (Arr. L. Thomas)
Christmas Oratorio, Bwv 248: No. 28, Chorale. Wir Singen Dir In Deinem Heer (Arr. M. Honselmann)
Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (Arr. J. Euler)
Christmas Oratorio, Bwv 248: No. 12, Brich An, O Schönes Morgenlicht (Arr. Die Singphoniker)
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas (Arr. C. Schmidt)

UPC: 761203523627
Label: Cpo Records
Release Date: 1.4.19
Format: CD

J Bach S / Die Singphoniker - Oh Christmas Tree (CD)