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‘Tis the season for Windham Hill’s best-selling holiday compilation. This year’s edition includes performances by Alex de Grassi, Barbara Higbie, Michale Manring, Paul McCandless, the Modern Mandolin Quartet, Tim Story and Will Ackerman.
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Media Type: CD
Artist: WINTER’S SOLSTICE
Title: VOL. 4-WINTER’S SOLSTICE
Street Release Date: 08/24/1993
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Genre: XMAS VOCAL COLLECTIONS
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In 1993, Windham Hill Records released its fourth album of seasonal music recorded by the label’s artists and unavailable in any other collection. Only a few of the tracks on A Winter’s Solstice IV lend credence to the label’s unfair stereotype as the home for new age background music. Many of the musicians come from such respected jazz bands as Oregon and the Freddie Hubbard Quartet, and from such respected folk bands as the David Grisman Quartet. Several tackle such classical pieces as Bach’s “Sheep May Safely Graze” (the Modern Mandolin Quartet), Purcell’s “Trumpet Tune” (solo guitarist Alex de Grassi) and Vivaldi’s “Four Seasons” (the Turtle Island String Quartet). From Liz Story’s “Carol of the Bells” to Nightnoise’s “Wexford Carol,” this is rigorous instrumental music for the most part, no matter how quiet and pretty it may seem at first listen. –Geoffrey Himes
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