Stories for Christmas
20209999
Labels: Decca Classics
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Disc1
| 1 | The Happy Prince: High above the city on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince... | Bernard Herrmann | 1:59 |
| 2 | The Happy Prince: Far away, far away in a little street there is a poor house... | Bernard Herrmann | 2:24 |
| 3 | The Happy Prince: When the day broke, he flew down to the river and had a bath... | Bernard Herrmann | 2:02 |
| 4 | The Happy Prince: In the square below there stands a little Match Girl... | Bernard Herrmann | 1:52 |
| 5 | The Happy Prince: So the swallow flew over the great city... | Bernard Herrmann | 0:30 |
| 6 | The Happy Prince: Leaf after leaf of the fine gold the swallow picked off... | Bernard Herrmann | 0:29 |
| 7 | The Happy Prince: Then the snow came... | Bernard Herrmann | 1:23 |
| 8 | The Happy Prince: Early the next morning, the Mayor was walking in the Square below... | Bernard Herrmann | 0:49 |
| 9 | The Happy Prince: 'Bring me the two most precious things in the city,' said God to one of his angels | Bernard Herrmann | 0:58 |
| 10 | A Christmas Carol: God rest ye merry gentlemen | Victor Young | 4:36 |
| 11 | A Christmas Carol: Quickly I made myself ready for bed | Victor Young | 3:07 |
| 12 | A Christmas Carol: There at my bedside | Victor Young | 3:01 |
| 13 | A Christmas Carol: Wake up, Man! | Victor Young | 6:05 |
| 14 | A Christmas Carol: And looking up, I beheld | Victor Young | 6:05 |
| 15 | Mr. Pickwick's Christmas: I have the highest pleasure (The Pickwickians set off to visit Mr. Wardie) | Hanns Eisler | 7:11 |
| 16 | Mr. Pickwick's Christmas: But if they were cheerful and happy outside the house (At the farm) | Hanns Eisler | 4:47 |
| 17 | Mr. Pickwick's Christmas: We're all ready, I believe (The dance) | Hanns Eisler | 5:19 |
Disc2
| 1 | The Small One: The same winter sun that dances on the northern snow... | Victor Young | 2:59 |
| 2 | The Small One: 'You see Pablo, once upon a Christmas eve there was a small donkey'... | Victor Young | 2:55 |
| 3 | The Small One: Well, it was early afternoon when the small boy and his small donkey went through the town gates... | Victor Young | 2:45 |
| 4 | The Small One: Well, the little boy and the little donkey left the marketplace, Pablo... | Victor Young | 2:41 |
| 5 | The Small One: And so, Pablo, The Small One passed through the town gates... | Victor Young | 1:36 |
| 6 | The Littlest Angel: Once upon a time of many, many years ago... | Charles Paul | 5:31 |
| 7 | The Littlest Angel: But at length and at last, he slowly approached the doorway... | Charles Paul | 3:03 |
| 8 | The Littlest Angel: And then in all those timeless days that followed... | Charles Paul | 1:11 |
| 9 | The Littlest Angel: The angels, dark angels, the seraphim, the cherubim... | Charles Paul | 2:17 |
| 10 | The Littlest Angel: A small, rough, unsightly box... | Charles Paul | 2:20 |
| 11 | The Littlest Angel: The littlest angel wept hot, bitter tears... | Charles Paul | 0:48 |
| 12 | The Littlest Angel: Then suddenly, the voice of God, like divine music, rose through Paradise | Charles Paul | 2:28 |
| 13 | Lullaby of Christmas: This story is as old as Christmas... | Carmen Dragon | 2:13 |
| 14 | Lullaby of Christmas: Yes, Ay-You was without the gift of speech... | Carmen Dragon | 1:05 |
| 15 | Lullaby of Christmas: But the most stupendous and overwhelming thing of all, he'd be able to sing... | Carmen Dragon | 1:46 |
| 16 | Lullaby of Christmas: But morning after morning God disappointed them... | Carmen Dragon | 3:24 |
| 17 | Lullaby of Christmas: And then without the slightest warning of all came the dreadful day... | Carmen Dragon | 3:59 |
| 18 | Lullaby of Christmas: And so Ay-You tried to sing... | Carmen Dragon | 1:48 |
| 19 | Lullaby of Christmas: After a while he fell asleep... | Carmen Dragon | 1:59 |
| 20 | Lullaby of Christmas: The Ay-You knew why he had been born never to speak until this moment | Carmen Dragon | 2:56 |