The Many Moods of Christmas (Original Album)

The Many Moods of Christmas is 1963 LP of eighteen Christmas carols conducted by Robert Shaw, grouped into four suites. The carols were arranged for chorus and orchestra by famed Broadway orchestrator Robert Russell Bennett. The following is a listing of the suites and the music that each suite contains: Suite One Good Christian Men, Rejoice — Silent Night — Patapan — O Come, All Ye Faithful Suite Two O Sanctissima — Joy to the World — Away in a Manger — Fum Fum Fum — March of the Kings Suite Three What Child is This? — Hark! the Herald Angels Sing — Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella - Angels We Have Heard on High Suite Four Break Forth, O Beauteous, Heav’nly Light - The First Nowell — O Little Town of Bethlehem - I Saw Three Ships - Deck the Halls with Boughs of Holly As with most stereo albums made before 1967, the original version, performed by the Robert Shaw Chorale and RCA Victor Symphony, was released by RCA Victor in both mono and stereo. The album was a great success, with first-year sales exceeding 100,000 units, even as the then-recent assassination of President John F. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)