Christmas Music for Harp
Australian Carols and the complete Salzedo Christmas collection
Alice Giles (harp)
Angelic classics for the Christmas season or any time: favourite carols in sublime arrangements by harp master Carlos Salzedo, performed with grace and charm by Australian harp virtuosa Alice Giles.
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CARLOS SALZEDO 1885–1961
1 Concert Variations on ‘Adeste Fideles’ (O Come, All Ye Faithful)
2 Paraphrase on ‘It Came upon the Midnight Clear’
3 Paraphrase on ‘O Little Town of Bethlehem’
4 Concert Variations on ‘O Tannenbaum’ (O Christmas Tree)
5 Silent Night
6 Paraphrase on ‘Hark! The Herald Angels Sing’
7 Paraphrase on ‘Away in a Manger’
8 Paraphrase on ‘The First Noel’
9 Concert Variations on ‘Deck the Halls’
WILLIAM G. JAMES 1892–1977 arr. Alice Giles
10 Carol of the Birds
11 The Silver Stars are in the Sky
12 The Three Drovers
13 Christmas Day From Australian Christmas Carols, Set I
CARLOS SALZEDO
14 Concert Variations on ‘Good King Wenceslas’
15 Paraphrase on ‘Angels we have Heard on High’
16 Paraphrase on ‘Greensleeves’ (What Child is This)
17 Paraphrase on ‘We Three Kings of Orient Are’
18 I Wonder as I Wander (Appalachian Carol)
19 Short Fantasy on a Noël Provençal
20 Short Fantasy on a Neapolitan Carol
21 Short Fantasy on a Catalan Carol
22 Short Fantasy on a Basque Carol
23 Paraphrase on ‘Away in a Manger’ (to the tune of ‘Flow Gently, Sweet Afton’)
24 Paraphrase on ‘God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen’
25 Jingle Bells
26 Poem of the Little Stars
27 Recessional
Alice Giles harp