🎄Ivan Rebroff Christmas Carols Collection 🎅 Traditional Festive Songs

Tauchen Sie ein in die festliche Atmosphäre dieses Videos, das eine gemütliche "wohnzimmer deko" für "weihnachten" zeigt. Ein liebevoll dekorierter Tisch mit einem "plattenspieler" und einer goldenen "schallplatte" bildet den Mittelpunkt, während sanfte "christmas music" im Hintergrund spielt. Genießen Sie diese besinnliche Szene, perfekt um zur Ruhe zu kommen. Vergessen Sie nicht zu liken, zu kommentieren und zu abonnieren!

Tracklist:

1. Churchbells:Stille Nacht, Heilige Nacht
2. Herbei, O Ihr Gläubigen
3. Es Ist Ein Ros Entsprungen
4. Vom Himmel Hoch, Ihr Englein Kommt
5. Stacherl, Sollst Gschwind Aufstehn
6. Transeamus
7. Süßer Die Glocken Nie Klingen
8. Still, Still, Still
9. Die Könige
10. Alle Jahre Wieder
11. Auf Dem Berge, Da Wehet Der Wind
12. Russisches Schlittenlied
13. O Du Fröhliche

When Ivan Rebroff’s first album for Columbia Masterworks was issued, it bore on its cover the information that he possessed “an incredible three-octave range” and that he had been internationally acclaimed as “the richest, darkest, lowest, highest bass in the world.”

Well, for once, a record company was modest in its claims. The respected vocal authority Leighton Phraner, writing in The Music Journal, subsequently applauded Rebroff’s “extraordinary vocal range of nearly five octaves” (our italics). And as for the “richest, darkest, etc.,” assertion, a critic in Stereo Review allowed that “no one will be the last to quarrel with such claims . . . [Rebroff’s] voice is as sensational as his promoters claim, his timing is superb, and he sings everything with style and fervor.”
So much for modesty—and self-justification.

After New York City came triumphs in Washington, D.C., Cleveland, San Francisco and other U.S. cities, where he was described as having a voice “like black velvet” that was “hard to believe” because of its “fantastic range.” One critic even asked, “Is he the second coming of Chaliapin? Is he another Alexander Kipnis? More likely, he is Ivan Rebroff.”

The Berlin-born basso (of Russian parentage) today is an international star of opera, the concert stage and even the musical theater. (In Paris, he has been starring as Tevye in the long-running “Fiddler on the Roof.”) And his recordings—standard best-sellers in Europe—have become noted for the remarkable range of his musical interests. Songs of Russia naturally loom large in his repertory and have helped to establish his reputation. But the versatile basso is now embarked on a series of recordings designed to display a fuller range of his talents.

In this special album, for example, he has been joined by the choir and orchestra of the Albertus Magnus-Kirche of Regensburg, Austria. In presenting a joyous program of Christmas music, in addition to such ever-welcome staples as “Silent Night,” “O Come, All Ye Faithful,” and “Lo, How a Rose E’er Blooming,” Rebroff and the Choir offer such German favorites as “From Heaven on High,” “Alle Jahre Wieder,” sung a cappella by the “Domspatzen” (“Dome Sparrows”), “Mary on the Mountain” (a carol about the gentle Mary singing a lullaby to the Holy Infant), “Still, Still, Still,” (which tells of the hushed reverence of Christmas Eve), and “Stacherl, Get Up” (which, in turn, tells of the joy of Christmas morning). “Transeamus,” sung in Latin, is the story of the Shepherds who went to Bethlehem to witness the Christ Child, “O Du Fröhlicher” is the German version of the well-known “O Sanctissima” (“Oh, Thou Joyful Day”), and “Russian Sleighing Song” celebrates the wintry glories of the season. The album opens and closes, appropriately, with the ringing of bells, just as in the carol, “Sweetly the Little Bells Ring.”

Incidentally, if you listen closely at the end of “Still, Still, Still,” you will hear what is probably the lowest note of a human voice ever recorded—an F-sharp, four ledger-lines below the bass clef! And Rebroff’s recounting of the visit of “The Kings” is charmingly backed by the choir singing yet another Christmas favorite, “How Brightly Shines the Morning Star.”

So join Ivan Rebroff and the Regensburger Domspatzen as they celebrate a festive Christmas in music that matches in glory the most glorious season of the year.

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Source: Archive.org
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