Samuel Barber – Die Natali, chorale Christmas preludes (Alsop) (FLAC)

Die Natali: Chorale Preludes for Christmas, is Samuel Barber’s only numbered work (Op. 37) not to use original material for its composition: it is in fact an arrangement of several popular Christmas carols, done with a level of ingenuity close to what one would expect from a composer of Barber’s stature. (The Latin title means "Christmastide.") Commissioned by the Koussevitzky Music Foundation for the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, it was premiered by that orchestra on (appropriately) December 22, 1960, with Charles M�nch conducting. It is scored for an orchestra of double winds, with auxiliary players added (except contrabasson), a brass section with three trumpets, timpani, celesta, harp, a standard sized percussion battery, and strings. It lasts about sixteen minutes.

1. Piano Concerto – 1. Allegro Appassionato
2. Piano Concerto – 2. Canzone – Moderato
3. Piano Concerto – 3. Allegro Molto
4. Die Natali
5. Medea’s Meditation And Dance Of Vengeance
6. Commando March

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