Sissel & The Mormon Tabernacle Choir CD & DVD

xantha

Following her performances with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, A new CD and DVD will shortly be released for sale.

CD - The Spirit of the Season - Mormon Tabernacle Choir & Orchestra at Temple Square with Sissel.
Norwegian-born singing sensation Sissel joins the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square for their annual Christmas concerts in a performance described as "a match made in heaven." In her first-ever Christmas album released in the U.S., Sissel has collaborated with the world famous Choir to offer a dazzling collection of music for the holidays. Release date: September 26, 2007.

Track Listing.

1.Bring A Torch, Jeanette Isabella
2. Wexford Carol
3. Sunny Bank
4. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Featuring Sissel)
5. In The Bleak Midwinter (Featuring Sissel)
6. In dulci jubilo (Featuring Sissel)
7. Mitt hjerte alltid vanker
8. Noe! Noe!
9. Mariä Wiegenlied (Featuring Sissel)
10. Spirit of the Season
11. Like an Angel Passing through My Room (Featuring Sissel)
12. Bells of Christmas Medley (The Bells of Christmas; Carol of the Bells; From Every Spire on Christmas Eve; I Heard the Bells...)
13.Vitae lux (Light of Life) (Featuring Sissel)
14.Lux aurumque
15. Silent Night
16. Angels, from the Realms of Glory

DVD - Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square, featuring Sissel
European singing sensation Sissel joins with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra at Temple Square in a magnificent Christmas celebration featuring some of the season's most beloved songs. Musically rich and visually stunning, the program blends traditional classics such as "Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!" and "Silent Night" with contemporary favorites such as "White Christmas" and "Spirit of the Season," from The Polar Express. Highlights feature Sissel's spine-tingling performance of "In the Bleak Mid-Winter" and "Like an Angel Passing Through My Room," along with a reading of the Christmas story from the New Testament. Recorded in high-definition, surround-sound stereo, Christmas with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir is a holiday tradition the entire family will enjoy.

Source.mormontabernaclechoir.org

xcept · Posted: Mon Nov 19, 2007 10:22 pm Post subject:

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xcept · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 2:02 pm Post subject:

Top of the Billboard classical chart for the third consecutive week is "Spirit of the Season," this year's holiday disc from the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and Orchestra with Norwegian folk-pop singer Sissel.

Source: Billboard 23 Nov 2007

xcept · Posted: Tue Nov 27, 2007 10:57 am Post subject:

Spirit of the Season review - LDS

If you like a bit of variety in your Christmas music, perhaps the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's newest release, "Spirit of the Season," is what you are looking for. The album features, the now to be expected, solid arrangements of Mack Wilberg as well as the crossover vocal stylings of European superstar Sissel Kyrkjebo (perhaps best known for her contributions to the best-selling movie soundtrack of all-time, Titanic).

Between the familiar rock-solid sound of the choir and the angelic, multifaceted performances of Sissel (ranging from celtic and pop sounds, to more classical timbres), this is an album unlike any the choir has ever released before. As much as I personally love the choir, there is no doubt that it is Sissel who steals the show this time around with her soul-piercing and sensitive performances. Of the eight of the tracks that feature Sissel, particularly of note is her haunting rendition of "In the Bleak Midwinter" which is the albums most popular track on iTunes.

This release continues the tradition the choir has now established of bringing world-famous artists and personalities to Salt Lake for their annual Christmas concerts. The concert was recorded in 2005; this marks the first of these concerts to be released in it's entirety as a CD.

The choir has two other Christmas CDs that have been released since it started it's own independant record label. The more recent of these, "The Wonder of Christmas," also features excerpted performances from this unique series of concerts and boasts big name soloists such as Renee Fleming, Angela Lansbury, Audra McDonald and Bryn Terfel.

The choir's management is to be applauded for taking on such an ambitious multi-year project. Hopefully stake music programs throughout the church will be inspired to emulate the choir on a smaller scale and create powerful traditions of performance in their own areas.

xcept · Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 12:16 am Post subject:

Spirit of the Season - #1 on the Billboard Classical Chart 4th Week In a Row
The Christmas album, Spirit of the Season - Sissel with Mormon Tabernacle Choir And Orchestra At Temple Square - remains at #1 on Billboard Classical chart for the fourth week in a row! Sissel is extremely thrilled and honoured by this latest development!

Source: OS - 30.11.2007

Belle · Joined: Jan 04, 2006 Posts: 50

This is a GREAT CD!!! Way to go!!

xena · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 5:21 am Post subject:

Glad you are enjoying the DVD Belle Very Happy

Just as a slight side note to this topic, I read the following news in an article today:

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir earned two Grammy nominations Thursday, for Best Classical Crossover Album of the Year and Best Engineered Classical Album.

The choir won a Grammy in 1959 for its recording of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic."
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xantha · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 9:58 am Post subject:

I think Santa has bought me the DVD for Christmas - I'm looking forward to watching it. I have listened to this choir since I was a little girl and I love that they are now singing with artists like Bryn Terfel and Sissel.

xena · Posted: Tue Dec 11, 2007 10:03 am Post subject:

Sounds like you're very much on Santa's "good" list this year then Xantha! Wink

Hope you enjoy the DVD, it sounds wonderful and I'm sure it will have extra special for you having grown up listening to them.

I look forward to hearing your thoughts after Christmas! Very Happy

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