Merry Christmas Pianomania (Vinyl LP)
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Label: Brilliant Classics
Cat No: 90030
Format: LP
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Christmas
Release Date: 10th October 2025
Contents
Artists
Jeroen van Veen (piano)Artists
Jeroen van Veen (piano)About
This LP features Christmas music for the piano in a timeless journey through the decades and centuries. These songs have been through a remarkable evolution over the course of several centuries, with the changes they have undergone reflecting the shifting musical styles and cultural influences that prevailed in various times.
The development in popularity of the piano as a household instrument in the 19th century contributed to the spread of traditional Christmas carols and tunes. Christmas songs were made more approachable to a wider audience because of the attractive piano arrangements that composers such as Felix Mendelssohn and Franz Liszt devised for them. Then, throughout the 20th century, Christmas songs were composed in a wide variety of musical styles. Jazz, blues, and popular music were all significant influences on composers during this period. Composers such as Irving Berlin created Christmas songs centred around the piano that went on to become instant classics. An example that epitomises this era is Irving Berlin’s ‘White Christmas’. The growth of Christmas carols arranged for piano is a monument to the everlasting spirit of the Christmas holiday as well as the development of musical styles throughout the course of history.
For this LP, Jeroen van Veen has collected both well-known and lesser-known Christmas songs from all over the world and arranged many of them for his own piano performance. The programme is freely, alternating slow with up-tempo and virtuosic with intimate songs. Some of the tracks are medleys combining two or more songs. Highlights include the ‘Christmas Fantasy’ by Alexander Rosenblatt, a virtuoso piece that combines several tunes, and the Fred Oldenburg version of ‘Silent Night’, written in answer to a challenge from some of the jazz teachers at the Enschede conservatory to use the strangest chords to harmonise the well-known song.
Tracklist:
Side A
1. Silent Night
2. The First Noel
3. 15. O Come, All Ye Faithfull & Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee
4. What Child is This? & Away in a Manger
5. Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow!
6. Jingle Bells
7. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
Side B
1. White Christmas
2. O Christmas Tree & We Wish You a Merry Christmas
3. Christmas Fantasy (Alexander Rosenblatt)
4. Santa Claus is Coming to Town
5. Fantasy on Ode to Joy
6. We Wish You A Merry Christmas
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