wonderful... Merry Christmas wonderful... Merry ChristmasA treat for the ears and eyes...Thank you and Merry Christmas.
Ping A Ling
Very nice. Needed that, thank you
wow.....
Definite A+ for effort. The first time I ever heard it arranged in a minor key. There were segments where it seemed to be being sung in harmonies as-written by GFH, but it would quickly switch back to intentionally having the sopranos, and maybe others, singing flat.
Someone put a lot of time and effort into taking GFH’s work and rearranging it with inharmonious dischords, so that throughout the performance my senses were straining to hear the voices slide back into perfect harmony where they belonged; which they never did.
And as a former choir-singer (Bass) I can only imagine the difficulty of the higher registers singing flat when their senses want to sing in harmony; or for the voices whose parts were arranged as per GFH holding their parts, on key, while a section nearby is intentionally singing flat.
This is probably some “brave new” avante garde style of arranging, which is foreign to an unwashed Philistine such as I.
The satellite photography was fantastic.
P.S. I understand this was performed by 2 persons. How many layers of recording did it take to complete the package?
That does alleviate the difficulty of the various voices holding key. But it doesn’t help the listener, who is straining every nerve, wishing for the voices to come into harmony, which they seldom did.