A Festival of Carols in Brass | 
 enlarge | Creators: Adolphe Adam, Anonymous, Henry Walford Davies, Franz Xaver Gruber, George Frederick Handel, John Henry, Jr. Hopkins, Felix Mendelssohn, Christmas Traditional, John Francis Wade, Richard Storrs Willis, Philadelphia Brass Ensemble
Label: Sony
Category: Music
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Rating:  34 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.4 x 4.9 x 0.4
MPN: 7033
UPC: 074640703324
EAN: 0074640703324
Release Date: July 16, 1991
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| Tracks:
| • | Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabelle - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | The First Nowell - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | Angels We Have Heard on High - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | We Three Kings of Orient Are - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Hopkins, John Henry | | • | O Come All Ye Faithful - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Oakeley, Frederick | | • | O Sanctissima - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Anonymous | | • | O Tannenbaum - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Neale, John M. | | • | Good King Wenceslas - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Neale, John M. | | • | Silent Night - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Gruber, Franz | | • | Joy to the World - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Mason, Lowell | | • | The Twelve Days of Christmas - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional | | • | Coventry Carol - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional | | • | Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Mendelssohn, Felix | | • | It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Sears, Edmund Hamil | | • | Good Christian Men Rejoice - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Christ | | • | O Holy Night - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Adam, Adolphe | | • | What Child Is This? - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Dix, William Chatte | | • | Wassail Song - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional, Englis | | • | O Little Town of Bethlehem - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Brooks, Phillip | | • | Away in a Manger - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional | | • | We Wish You a Merry Christmas - Philadelphia Brass Ensemble, Traditional |
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Best Christmas album ever January 7, 2009
Grandma (Huntington, WV, USA)
This is my favorite Christmas album -- familiar Christmas carols played by a brass ensemble.
You'll Want to Sing Along December 23, 2008
Readalots (South Texas, USA)
The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble's "A Festival of Carols in Brass" (Adrew Kazdin's 1991 music transfer to CD from the 1967 Adam & Davies original) remains a classic for Christmas music lovers. I was delighted to recently find it at Amazon.
These "25 Favorite Christmas Carols" feature the most presented and memorial Yule time tunes, from "Deck the Halls" to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas". One hears "Good King Wenceslas", "Joy to the World", "O Holy Night", "Silent Night" and all the rest played with the announcement and bold delivery that only brass can bring. Trombones, baritones, French horns, bugles, coronets, trumpets- they are all here! You will want to sing along with all this brass.
Each piece is exquisite and comfortably tailored for Christmas activity. This CD makes excellent background holiday party music. It plays for a little over an hour. "A Festival of Carols in Brass" is recommended to everyone wishing to offer the musical joy of this holy season.
Merry Christmas!
Fantastic CD with all the popular Christmas tunes December 9, 2008
Carter S. Ammon (Richmond, VA)
This is by far one of the best Christmas CD's. Like the other reviewers have said, "you feel as though a Salvation Army band is playing right outside your window". All the popular Christmas tunes are done with perfect precision and pitch. As a fellow (but amateur) musician, this CD makes me want to get out my old school band trumpet and play along.
It is truely amazing that the Philadelphia Brass Ensemble is just 5 guys - (2) trumpets, (1) french horn, (1) trombone, (1) tuba.
You can't go wrong with this classic CD. It's incredible - you have to hear it to believe it.
 Great alternative to Christmas songs January 12, 2008
James W. Killman (Atlanta)
This is a terrific collection of Christmas music with the twist of a brass ensemble. I have used it to mix up a collection, and it really adds variety to the mix. Very well done.
Outstanding Musicality January 10, 2008
Brassman123 (New Jersey, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
Several raters have complained about the lack of a listing of the performers on this disc. The Philadelphia Brass Ensemble was nothing more than the principal and second players of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Perhaps "nothing more" is not the best way to describe this as the performers were, at the time, some of the best players in the US. Gilbert Johnson (trumpet) was considered (until his death from cancer a few years ago) one of the finest trumpeters to ever have played in a symphony orchestra. When I was growing up, Henry Charles Smith (trombone) was the model we all looked up to for how a orchestral principal trombone should sound. He was the Joseph Alessi of the time. The same could be said for Mason Jones (french horn) and Abe Torchinsky (tuba). All of these players had students who are playing in major symphony orchestras around the world and continue to inspire future performers through their many recordings. To my knowlege, the performers are:
Gilbert Johnson (Trumpet)
Seymour Rosenfeld (Trumpet)
Mason Jones (French Horn)
Henry Charles Smith (Trombone)
Tyrone Breuninger (Trombone)
M. Dee Stewart (Euphonium)
Abe Torchinsky (Tuba)
Cheers!
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