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My Christmas (Plácido Domingo Album)
''My Christmas'' is a 2014 album by Plácido Domingo for Sony Classical, featuring also Helene Fischer, The Piano Guys, Plácido Domingo Jr., Czech National Symphony Choir, Czech National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Kohn. Track listing # "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" with Vincent Niclo # "Guardian Angels" with Idina Menzel - written by Harpo Marx # "Silent Night" with The Piano Guys # " What Child Is This" with Helene Fischer # "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen" with The Voices Of Los Angeles Opera's Domingo-Colburn-Stein Young Artist Program # "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing" # "Andrew Lloyd Webber: setting of the Pie Jesu from ''Requiem'' with Jackie Evancho # "Astro del ciel", version of Silent Night by Franz X. Gruber # "Loving Christmas with You" with Hayley Westenra, written by Plácido Domingo Jr. # " It Came Upon The Midnight Clear" # " White Christmas" with Plácido Domingo Jr. # Mozart: Ave verum corpus is a short Eucharistic chant th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plácido Domingo
José Plácido Domingo Embil (born 21 January 1941) is a Spanish opera singer, conductor, and arts administrator. He has recorded over a hundred complete operas and is well known for his versatility, regularly performing in Italian, French, German, Spanish, English and Russian in the most prestigious opera houses in the world. Although primarily a '' lirico-spinto'' tenor for most of his career, especially popular for his Cavaradossi, Hoffmann, Don José and Canio, he quickly moved into more dramatic roles, becoming the most acclaimed Otello of his generation. In the early 2010s, he transitioned from the tenor repertory into exclusively baritone parts, including '' Simon Boccanegra''. As of 2020, he has performed 151 different roles. Domingo has also achieved significant success as a crossover artist, especially in the genres of Latin and popular music. In addition to winning fourteen Grammy and Latin Grammy Awards, several of his records have gone silver, gold, platin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banda El Recodo
Banda Sinaloense El Recodo de Cruz Lizárraga, often referred to simply as Banda El Recodo, is a Mexican banda formed in Mazatlán, Sinaloa, in 1938. It has been under the direction of the Lizárraga family. Banda El Recodo has recorded with popular artists such as José Alfredo Jiménez and Juan Gabriel. The ensemble consists of four clarinets, three trumpets, a tambora, a snare drum set with cowbells and cymbals, a sousaphone, three trombones, two tenor horns (referred to as , or in Mexico), and two vocalists. History Banda El Recodo was founded by Cruz Lizárraga, a young musician who also gave it its current appearance, including the setting, style, shape and number of current members that associated it with the place of their origin, the State of Sinaloa on the Mexican Pacific. El Recodo was named after the town Lizárraga was born in. In 1989, Banda El Recodo officially incorporated a vocalist into their line-up. Prior to this year, Banda El Recodo and most other b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Feliz Navidad (song)
"Feliz Navidad" (; ) is a Christmas song written and first recorded in 1970 by Puerto Rican singer-songwriter José Feliciano. With its simple, heartfelt lyrics—the traditional Spanish Christmas/New Year greeting "Feliz Navidad, próspero año y felicidad" ("Merry Christmas, a prosperous year and happiness"), followed by text in English words "I wanna wish you a merry Christmas from the bottom of my heart"—, it has become a Christmas classic and has gained popularity around the world. In 2010, Feliciano's original recording was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame. Background and composition Feliciano wrote "Feliz Navidad" while feeling homesick at Christmas, missing his family in New York City and his extended family further afield as he sat in a studio in Los Angeles. He remembered celebrating Christmas Eve with his brothers, eating traditional Puerto Rican foods, drinking rum, and going caroling. "It was expressing the joy that I felt on Christmas and the fact that I fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ave Verum Corpus (Mozart)
''Ave verum corpus'' ("Hail, True Body"), Köchel catalogue, K. 618, is a motet in D major composed by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in 1791. It is a setting of the Latin hymn Ave verum corpus, of the same name. Mozart wrote it for Anton Stoll, a friend who was the church musician of St. Stephan, Baden, St. Stephan in Baden bei Wien. The motet was composed for the feast of Corpus Christi (feast), Corpus Christi; the Autograph (manuscript), autograph is dated 17 June 1791. It is scored for SATB choir, string instruments and organ (music), organ. History Mozart composed the motet in 1791 in the middle of writing his opera ''Die Zauberflöte''. He wrote it while visiting his wife Constanze Mozart, Constanze, who was pregnant with Franz Xaver Wolfgang Mozart, their sixth child and staying in the spa Baden bei Wien. Mozart set the 14th century Eucharistic hymn in Latin "Ave verum corpus". He wrote the motet for Anton Stoll, a friend of his. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (27 January 1756 – 5 December 1791) was a prolific and influential composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. Despite his short life, his rapid pace of composition and proficiency from an early age resulted in List of compositions by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, more than 800 works representing virtually every Western classical genre of his time. Many of these compositions are acknowledged as pinnacles of the symphony, symphonic, concerto, concertante, chamber music, chamber, operatic, and choir, choral repertoires. Mozart is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers in the history of Classical music, Western music, with his music admired for its "melodic beauty, its formal elegance and its richness of harmony and texture". Born in Salzburg, Mozart showed Child prodigy, prodigious ability from his earliest childhood. At age five, he was already competent on keyboard and violin, had begun to compose, and performed before European r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
White Christmas (song)
"White Christmas" is a song reminiscing about an old-fashioned Christmas setting. Written by Irving Berlin for the 1942 musical film ''Holiday Inn'', the song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 15th Academy Awards. Originally sung by Bing Crosby, it topped the ''Billboard'' chart for 11 weeks and returned to the number one position again in December 1943 and 1944. His version would return to the top 40 a dozen times in subsequent years. Since its release, "White Christmas" has been covered by many artists. Crosby's version is the world's best-selling single (in terms of sales of physical media), with estimated sales in excess of 50 million physical copies worldwide. When the figures for other versions of the song are added to Crosby's, sales of the song exceed 100 million. History Origin Accounts vary as to when and where Berlin wrote the song. One story is that he wrote it in 1940, in warm La Quinta, California, while staying at the La Quinta Hotel, a fre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
It Came Upon The Midnight Clear
"It Came Upon the Midnight Clear", sometimes rendered as "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear", is an 1849 poem and Christmas Carol (music), carol written by Edmund Sears, pastor of the American Unitarian Association, Unitarian Church in Wayland, Massachusetts, Wayland, Massachusetts. In 1850, Sears' lyrics were set to "Carol", a tune written for the poem the same year at his request, by Richard Storrs Willis. This pairing remains the most popular in the United States, while in Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth countries, the lyrics are set to "Noel", a later adaptation by Arthur Sullivan from an English melody. History Edmund Sears composed the five-stanza poem in common metre doubled during 1849. It first appeared on December 29, 1849, in ''The Christian Register'' in Boston, Massachusetts. Sears served the Unitarian congregation in Wayland, Massachusetts, Wayland, Massachusetts, before moving on to a larger congregation at First Church of Christ, Unitarian, in Lancaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hayley Westenra
Hayley Dee Westenra (born 10 April 1987) is a New Zealand classical crossover singer. Her first internationally released album, '' Pure'', reached number one on the UK classical charts in 2003 and has sold more than two million copies worldwide, making it one of the fastest selling albums in her country's history. She is one of the youngest UNICEF Ambassadors to date. Westenra has sung in English, Māori, Irish, Welsh, Spanish, Italian, German, French, Portuguese, Latin, Japanese, Standard Mandarin Chinese, Catalan, and Taiwanese Hokkien. Early life Westenra was born on 10 April 1987 at Christchurch Women's Hospital in Christchurch, New Zealand. Her parents, Gerald and Jill Westenra, have other children. Sophie is an academic and teaches law at Oxford. Westenra's grandmother Shirley Ireland was a singer, and her grandfather was a pianist who also played the piano accordion. She has Irish, Dutch and English heritage. She began performing at age six in the Christmas pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jackie Evancho
Jacqueline Marie Evancho ( ; born April 9, 2000) is an American singer who gained wide recognition at an early age, singing primarily crossover music#Classical crossover, classical crossover covers. Since 2009, she has issued nine albums, a platinum-selling extended play, EP and two further EPs; three of her discs debuted in the top 10 on the Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200."Jackie Evancho on Classical-Crossover" Classical-crossover.co.uk, accessed October 26, 2011 She has also presented three solo PBS concert specials. Between 2008 and 2010, Evancho entered talent competitions, sang the The Star-Spangled Banner, US national anthem at a Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game, issued her first album, ''Prelude to a Dream'', and attracted interest on YouTube. In 2010, at the age of ten, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Requiem (Webber)
Andrew Lloyd Webber's Requiem is a requiem mass, which premiered in 1985. It was written in memory of the composer's father, William Lloyd Webber, who died in 1982. History and reception It was a new venture for Lloyd Webber, the composer of numerous musicals, to create a piece of traditional classical music. The music mixes Lloyd Webber's melodic and pop-oriented style with more complex, sophisticated, and at times even austere forms. An initial draft of Requiem was heard during the 1984 Sydmonton Festival, after which Lloyd Webber spent an additional half-year polishing the work. The premiere took place on 24 February 1985 in St. Thomas Church, New York; the conductor was Lorin Maazel, and the three soloists were Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman (Lloyd Webber's wife at the time), and Paul Miles-Kingston. Requiem won the 1986 Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition. The most popular segment of Requiem has been the Pie Jesu, which became a hit single and h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pie Jesu
"Pie Jesu" ( ; original Latin: "Pie Iesu" ) is a text from the '' Lacrimosa'', a hymn in the sequence " Dies irae," where it is the final (nineteenth) couplet. The couplet is often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass as a motet. The phrase means " pious Jesus" in the vocative. Popular settings The settings of the Requiem Mass by Marc-Antoine Charpentier (H.234, H.263, H.269, H.427), Luigi Cherubini, Antonin Dvořák, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Karl Jenkins, Kim André Arnesen and Fredrik Sixten include a "Pie Jesu" as an independent movement. Decidedly, the best known is the "Pie Jesu" from Fauré's Requiem. Camille Saint-Saëns, who died in 1921, said of Fauré's "Pie Jesu": "Just as Mozart's is the only 'Ave verum corpus', this is the only 'Pie Jesu'." Andrew Lloyd Webber's setting of " Pie Jesu" in his Requiem (1985) has also become well known and has been widely recorded, including by Sarah Brightman, Charlotte Church, Jackie Evancho, S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
