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Paul Winter Silver Solstice Release Date: 2005 12 06 Label: Living Music A live recording of the 25th annual Winter Solstice concert from Paul Winter and a remarkable cast at St. John's Cathedral in New York. It's become a vital seasonal tradition, with music spanning the globe (and the addition of a DVD in the package), from gospel to the Balkans, Irish to new age. In many ways it defies description, being so eclectic. Yet at the same time maybe it's one of those you-had-to-be-there things, since, on disc at least, it becomes something to be admired rather than emotionally involved with. The quality of the musicianship is never less than brilliant -- Winter attracts the highest caliber of performer -- but at the same time there's a slight sense of blandness about it. "Sound Over All Waters," for example, is a moving gospel piece, but here it comes across more Whitney Houston than Mahalia Jackson -- a quavering voice doesn't equal emotion, no matter what the pop divas say. The live context takes away much of the subtlety, unfortunately, and you're left more with performances than intricate pieces of music. However, that said, it has a power. Chris Nickson, All Music Guide Tracks: Title Composer Time 1 Opening Calls 4:03 2 Tomorrow Is My Dancing Day Traditional 3:02 3 Sun Singer Winter, Halley 4:58 4 Wound Over All Waters Whittier, Halley 4:32 5 Kurski Funk Castro-Neves, Halley, Traditional, Winter 4:19 6 Dawnwalker Spillane 6:46 7 Before It's Too Late Tuncboyaciyan 5:21 8 Harvest Faire Winter 4:43 9 Sara Traditional, Berry 5:33 10 Seoladh Traditional 5:15 11 Cathedral Forest Halley 5:45 12 Belly of the Whale Humpback Whale, Friesen, Sullivan 5:29 13 Solstice Tree Uirapur, Cahn, Winter, Traditional 3:28 14 Storm 1:12 15 Bells of Solstice Traditional 1:33 16 Return of the Sun Halley 1:26 17 Solstice Chant Halley 2:14 18 Caravan at Dawn Tuncboyaciyan, Hart, Winter, Rudess 6:23 19 Lake Halley 4:33 20 Luiza Jobim 2:41 21 Canyon Chaconne Halley, Winter 6:27 22 First Ride Friesen, Halley 4:34 23 Icarus Towner 3:14 24 Rain Is Over and Gone Halley 5:48 25 Cello and the Pipes Spillane, Friesen 3:55 26 Rising Moon Sullivan 5:05 27 Down in Belgorod Winter, Friesen, Traditional, Halley, Castro-Neves 3:39 28 Oror Bubrik Tuncboyaciyan 6:17 29 Silent Night Traditional 3:00 30 Song for the World Traditional, Halley 3:18 31 Wolf Eyes Winter, Darling, Timber Wolf 8:12 32 Minuit/Auld Lang Syne Guth, Fodeba, Traditional, Osborn 5:43 33 Opening Calls [PCM] 34 Tomorrow Is My Dancing Day [DVD] Traditional 35 Sun Singer [PCM Stereo Halley, Winter 36 Wound Over All Waters [DVD] Whittier, Halley 37 Kurski Funk [PCM] Traditional, Castro-Neves, Halley, Winter 38 Dawnwalker [PCM Stereo Spillane 39 Before It's Too Late [DVD] Tuncboyaciyan 40 Harvest Faire [PCM] Winter 41 Sara [PCM Stereo Traditional, Berry 42 Seoladh [Video][Multimedia Track] Traditional 43 Cathedral Forest ... [DVD] Halley 44 Belly of the Whale ... [DVD] Humpback Whale, Sullivan, Friesen 45 Solstice Tree [PCM] Uirapur, Traditional, Winter, Cahn 46 Storm [PCM Stereo 47 Bells of Solstice [PCM Traditional 48 Return of the Sun [PCM Halley 49 Solstice Chant ... [DVD] Halley 50 Caravan at Dawn ... [DVD] Hart, Winter, Rudess, Tuncboyaciyan 51 Lake [PCM Stereo Halley 52 Luiza [PCM Stereo Halley 53 Canyon Chaconne ... [DVD] Halley, Winter 54 First Ride [PCM Stereo Winter, Halley 55 Icarus [PCM Stereo Towner 56 Rain Is Over and Gone [DVD] Halley 57 Cello and the Pipes [DVD] Spillane, Friesen 58 Rising Moon [PCM] Sullivan 59 Down in Belgorod ... [DVD] Castro-Neves, Winter, Friesen, Halley, Traditional 60 Oror Bubrik [DVD] Tuncboyaciyan 61 Silent Night [PCM] Traditional 62 Song for the World ... [DVD] Traditional, Halley 63 Wolf Eyes [PCM Stereo Winter, Timber Wolf, Darling 64 Minuit/Auld Lang Syne [DVD] Traditional, Osborn, Guth, Fodeba Releases: Year Type Label 2005 CD Living Music

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