Cat No:
LONGMAN062CD
Release Date: 21 October 2013
Label: Longman Records
Packaging Type: Digipak
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 5060269220040
Genres: Classical Easy Listening
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Description
A kaleidoscopic vision of what Christmas means to this most gifted and eclectic acoustic musician. With Amy Kakoura's vocals and the voice of Barry Cryer.
UK guitar maestro allies his revered technique to everything he can lay his hands on in his studio. Hammond, harpsichord, piano, cello, mandolins, ukulele and recorders are heard alongside Durrant's guitars.
And just when you think the Christmas mix cannot get any richer, up pops the gravelly voice of comedy legend Barry Cryer on 'The Polar Bear'. This time Barry plays it straight, reciting haiku verse in Durrant's moving depiction of a mother bear and her cubs' desperate swim for food and survival through the Arctic ice floes. This piece, inspired by the well-documented plight of the bears in their changing Arctic environment, deserves a place in the our hearts alongside 'Tales of the Riverbank' and 'Trumpton'.
The pared-back poignancy of Finnish song 'Joululaulu', about a young girl visiting her mother's grave on Christmas morning, and Phil Jewson's 'Because of Christmas Day' (written for Durrant) also showcase Durrant in his element – gorgeous, solo guitar with nothing added.
Anchoring the whole album is Durrant's masterly tone poem 'An Acoustic Winter Solstice', full of icy wonder and otherworldliness. The quotation on the sleeve is from Tove Janssen's 'Moominland Midwinte'r - sentiments echoing the magic of this wonderful album.
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Tracklisting
- 1. Winter Danza
- 2. Emmanuel Gloria
- 3. Past Three O'Clock
- 4. Joululaulu
- 5. A Christmas Eve Lullaby
- 6. The Secret Dance Of The Pets
- 7. An Acoustic Winter Solstice
- 8. All The Animals
- 9. A Northern Winter Night
- 10. Because Of Christmas Day
- 11. A Christmas Wish
- 12. The Polar Bear (Bear; Cubs: Ice January; The Swim; Artic Sky)
- 13. This World Needs To Sing
- 14. A Christmas Eve Lullaby (Coda)
Disc 1
Side 1
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Hijo De Hombre (Son Of Man)
Richard Durrant
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Where the River Meets the Sea
Ungagged
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The Way I Feel
Jack Cryer
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The Number 26 Bus To Paraguay
Richard Durrant
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The Light Inside
Marybeth D’Amico
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Paradise
Miranda's Beach
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Music From the Colourdome
Richard Durrant
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Horse
John Douglas Clark
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Hijo De Hombre (Son Of Man)
Richard Durrant
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Durrant Y Ledesma
Richard Durrant & Ismael Ledesma
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Stringhenge
Richard Durrant
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The Girl At The Airport
Richard Durrant
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Cycling Music
Richard Durrant
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The Number 26 Bus To Paraguay
Richard Durrant
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Music From the Colourdome
Richard Durrant
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