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Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra - The Complete Christmas Albums [2CD Remastered Set] (2018)

Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra - The Complete Christmas Albums [2CD Remastered Set] (2018)
  • Title: The Complete Christmas Albums
  • Year Of Release: 2018
  • Label: Real Gone Music [RGM-0812]
  • Genre: Classical, Easy Listening, Holiday, Christmas
  • Quality: 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks+cue, log)
  • Total Time: 2:28:01
  • Total Size: 338 mb / 869 mb
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Almost forty years after his passing, the name of Andre Kostelanetz is still synonymous with the sound of beautiful music. The Russian-born American conductor gained national attention bringing classical music to the masses first on CBS Radio in the 1930s and then via a series of albums on Columbia Records. A guest conductor of The New York Philharmonic and Washington, DC's National Symphony, he 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 albums conducting everything from Swan Lake to the hits of Chicago, Kostelanetz's Christmas albums are among the most treasured. Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records invite you to a true wonderland of Christmas with the release of Andre Kostelanetz and His Orchestra's The Complete Christmas Albums. This comprehensive 2-CD, 42-track set features all three of the legendary conductor's classic Columbia Christmas LPs - 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. Killian Boychoir - plus a host of holiday bonuses. These include Kostelanetz's rare 1950 single of "White Christmas," a complete recording of "The Nutcracker Suite" featuring Peter Ustinov, and additional seasonal favorites from the Kostelanetz catalog. Wishing You a Merry Christmas makes it's CD debut here. Along with his fellow "easy listening" kings Percy Faith and Ray Conniff, Kostelanetz defined the sound of the holiday with his Columbia Christmas recordings, and you'll find them all here (this is really his complete Christmas recordings, except he made several recordings of The Nutcracker, sparklingly remastered in crisp original mono and splendid "360 Sound" stereo by Maria Triana at Sony's Battery Studios. The Second Disc's resident Christmas elf Joe Marchese has penned the new liner notes. There's no doubt the maestro's yuletide recordings will become a few of your favorite things!

:: TRACKLIST ::

Bonus Track
1-01 White Christmas 4:12

Joy To The World: Music For Christmas (1960)
1-02 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 Medley 13:13
1-03 What Child Is This? / Joy To The World Medley 3:26
1-04 White Christmas 3:22
1-05 Sleigh Ride 2:31
1-06 Away In the Manger / We Three Kings of Orient Are Medley 3:33
1-07 March of the Toys / Toyland Medley 2:50
1-08 O Holy Night 2:47
1-09 The Skaters' Waltz 6:11

Bonus Tracks
1-10 Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71A 25:29
1-11 My Favorite Things 2:17
1-12 Greensleeves 2:17


Wonderland Of Christmas (1963)
2-01 Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer / Jingle Bells Medley 2:32
2-02 Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town / Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Medley 2:00
2-03 The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) 3:01
2-04 Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! 1:54
2-05 It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas 2:02
2-06 The First Noel / It Came Upon The Midnight Clear / Oh Come, All Ye Faithful Medley 2:33
2-07 Winter Wonderland / I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus Medley 2:13
2-08 White Christmas 3:06
2-09 Silver Bells / Shake Me I Rattle (Squeeze Me I Cry) Medley 2:26
2-10 Christmas Chopsticks 2:33
2-11 Sleigh Ride 2:32
2-12 Joy to the World / Silent Night, Holy Night / Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly Medley 2:55

Bonus Tracks
2-13 Greensleeves 2:43
2-14 Ave Maria [Bach] 2:43
2-15 Ave Maria [Schubert] 2:40

We Wish You A Merry Christmas (1965)
2-16 We Wish You A Merry Christmas 2:05
2-17 O Come All Ye Faithful 1:50
2-18 What Child Is This? 2:44
2-19 The First Noel / Joy To The World Medley 2:29
2-20 Silent Night, Holy Night 2:26
2-21 Christmas Chimes 2:31
2-22 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing / Angels We Have Heard On High Medley 2:30
2-23 Deck The Halls With Boughs Of Holly / Jingle Bells Medley 2:47
2-24 Away In A Manger 2:59
2-25 We Three Kings Of Orient Are 2:07
2-26 O Little Town Of Bethlehem 2:11
2-27 O Holy Night 3:35
2-28 It Came Upon A Midnight Clear / Away In A Manger Medley 2:31
2-29 O Tannenbaum 2:16
2-30 We Wish You A Merry Christmas (Reprise) 0:28

Bonus Track
2-31 It's Beginning To Look Like Christmas [Single Version] 2:08

2CD SET: 42 track collection of the great composers christmas albums, remastered with a whole bunch of extras! "Joy to the World: The Music of Christmas" (1959), "Wonderland of Christmas" (1963) & "Wishing You a Merry Christmas" (1965)

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  • mufty77
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Many thanks for lossless.