Classical Music Discoveries

Navona Records is delighted to present DASHING, a festive album for the holiday season featuring brand new works and arrangements of holiday favorites by several outstanding composers, with performances by The Stanbery Singers, the Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra. Familiar faces and tunes make appearances here, such as Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s perennial holiday favorite, Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy from his ballet The Nutcracker. Henry Wolking provides a jazz arrangement of God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen; likewise, David Tanner contributes with an arrangement of O Holy Night. His other work, A Visit from St. Nicholas, sets Clement Moore’s classic poem “’Twas the Night Before Christmas” to orchestra, with narration by Kerry Stratton. Delvyn Case and Timothy Lee Miller deliver rousing, spirited music with their Rocket Sleigh for orchestra and A Christmas Celebration for wind band, respectively. Christopher J. Hoh introduces the album’s choral works with his invitational Come Now and Celebrate, along with a choral arrangement of Thomas W. Talley’s folksong “Behold That Star,” composed in the style of African–American spirituals. L. Peter Deutsch weaves choral voices with solo instruments on each of his Three Winter Holiday Songs, “A Winter’s Rime,”“Hodie Christus Natus Est,” and “The Holly and the Ivy.” James Shrader contributes two choral works—a setting of “In the Bleak Midwinter” as a theme and variations, and Balulalow, written in a traditional Scottish style. Phillip Rhodes rounds out the album with the luminescent A Lullaby for the Nativity. For more information, please visit: http://www.navonarecords.com/catalog/nv6055/ TRACK TITLES: DAVID TANNER (SOCAN) 1 A VISIT FROM ST. NICHOLAS Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor Kerry Stratton, narration ALPHONSE ADAM (ARR. DAVID TANNER) (SOCAN) 2 O HOLY NIGHT (CANTIQUE DE NOEL) Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor David Tanner, saxophone DELVYN CASE (BMI) 3 ROCKET SLEIGH Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY 4 DANCE OF THE SUGAR PLUM FAIRY Moravian Philharmonic Orchestra | Petr Vronský, conductor L PETER DEUTSCH 5 A WINTER’S RIME The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Emily S. Van Niman, english horn 6 THE HOLLY AND THE IVY The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Rebekah E. Chesnes, flute 7 HODIE CHRISTUS NATUS EST The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Davis McKinney, trumpet JAMES SHRADER 8 BALULALOW The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Samantha Staton, soprano; Christopher Scott Wyatt, tenor 9 IN THE BLEAK MIDWINTER The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor HENRY WOLKING 10 GOD REST YE MERRY GENTLEMEN Salt Lake City Jazz Orchestra | Henry Wolking, conductor Kevin Stout, trombone CHRISTOPHER J. HOH 11 BEHOLD THAT STAR The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Sean David Taylor, baritone; Shawn Dawson, organ 12 COME NOW AND CELEBRATE The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Tisha C. Patton, piano PHILLIP RHODES 13 A LULLABY FOR THE NATIVITY The Stanbery Singers | Paul Stanbery, conductor Shawn Dawson, organ; Haejin Kim, violin TIMOTHY LEE MILLER 14 A CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION Moravian Philharmonia Wind and Percussion Ensemble Petr Vronský, conductor