Stories for Christmas
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Label: Australian Eloquence
Cat No: ELQ4841365
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 2
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 13th November 2020
Contents
Works
A Christmas CarolLullaby of Christmas
Mr Pickwick's Christmas
The Happy Prince
The Littlest Angel
The Small One
Artists
Bing CrosbyRonald Colman
Orson Welles
Loretta Young
Charles Laughton
Gregory Peck
Lurene Tuttle
Eric Snowden
Barbara Jean Wong
Conductors
Victor YoungHanns Eisler
Carmen Dragon
Works
A Christmas CarolLullaby of Christmas
Mr Pickwick's Christmas
The Happy Prince
The Littlest Angel
The Small One
Artists
Bing CrosbyRonald Colman
Orson Welles
Loretta Young
Charles Laughton
Gregory Peck
Lurene Tuttle
Eric Snowden
Barbara Jean Wong
Conductors
Victor YoungHanns Eisler
Carmen Dragon
About
In the days when families gathered around the wireless and the radiogram, Christmas stories made popular entertainment for children and adults alike. The most successful of them transferred to record with musical accompaniments supervised by experienced Hollywood hands, none more so than Bernard Herrmann, Alfred Hitchcock’s composer of choice, who in 1944 composed and conducted a score to an adaptation by Orson Welles of Oscar Wilde’s tale of The Happy Prince. Bing Crosby took the part of the Prince, and two years later became narrator for a new story by Charles Tazewell, The Small One.
Two further Tazewell stories for radio captured the imagination of the American public in 1948 and became Christmas-time fixtures, rather like The Snowman on British TV in the 1980s. The Littlest Angel and Lullaby of Christmas both told a touching tale, in the tradition of Andersen’s Little Match Girl but with a happy ending, of a child whose fortunes are transformed at Christmas time. When Decca released them as 78s and 10-inch LPs, they were narrated by Loretta Young and Gregory Peck respectively. According to Peck, ‘This is the holiday drama I’ve always hoped to find’.
“They will certainly be liked by many. The stories are well put over and there are many attractive features in the orchestral accompaniments and general presentation.” – Gramophone, January 1954 (The Littlest Angel, Lullaby of Christmas)
“Charming for kiddies.” – Gramophone, December 1963 (The Happy Prince)
“For the Christmas stocking, Ronald Colman as Scrooge and Charles Laughton as Mr. Pickwick ... would be perfect.” – Gramophone, January 2006 (A Christmas Carol, Mr Pickwick’s Christmas)
“Countless thousands who have heard this beautiful story over the radio will find in it the perfect remembrance.” – Goodreads.com (The Small One)
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