Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists Caliban does Christmas - Atma Classique

Caliban does Christmas
by: Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists

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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0722056233422
Item Dimensions: 24
Label: Atma Classique
Manufacturer: Atma Classique
Number Of Discs: 1
Publisher: Atma Classique
Release Date: April 16, 2009
Studio: Atma Classique

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Album Description:
Caliban does Christmas by Caliban Quartet of Bassoonists

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Disc 1:
Sleigh Ride
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
I Saw Three Ships
Nutcracker Digest
Christmas Carol
Siberian Sleighride
What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
Secret Santa
12 Days of Christmas
12 Days After Christmas
Santa Baby
Secret of Christmas
Marie-Noël
Too Fat for the Chimney
Theme from "Hockey Night in Canada"
Same Christmas Cake
Megruli Alilo
Lt. Kije/Troika

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Rating:

- Definitely Different
The Toronto-based Caliban Quartet Of Bassoonists - Nadina Mackie Jackson, Mathieu Lussier, Frasier Jackson and Kathleen McLean - who take their name from the weird creature in The Tempest by William Shakespeare, has been entertaining audiences around the world for the past 15 years.

For this Christmas CD, which came out in the fall of 2005, they are joined by these well-known Canadian instrumentalists: trumpet/flugelhorn-player Guido Basso, trumpeter Guy Few, trombonist Alain Trudel, ...

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- Hilarious bassoonists, but leave out the vocalists!
I love everything the Caliban Quartet has done so far, and this is my least favorite of their albums. There are a lot of tracks that I really love and feature the quartet on their own with a lot of humor and wonderful bassoon work, and these tracks will be appreciated by fans of the quartet's other work. The other tracks, however, feature a lot of guest vocalists with bassoon accompaniment (along with more normal instruments). These tracks would be perfect for a bassoonist to play for a family ...