"Silent Night"
Pianist Kathryn Toyama, working with Renaud Schmitt
(orchestrations and arranger), have given holiday music lovers an early
Christmas present–a free download of a wonderful version of "Silent
Night." In Kathryn's words "We offer our rendition of 'Silent Night'
with heartfelt intentions to raise vibrations throughout the world… may there
be peace and harmony among all living beings." With music this lovely as
inspiration, perhaps that hopeful vision is in sight. Toyama's sensitive piano
performance is enhanced by Schmitt's orchestral embellishments (strings, horns,
bells, percussion). Opening with an exquisitely serene first verse, the carol moves
into a more dramatic passage with a choir and timpani adding even power and
passion, before reverting to the gentler motif, the carol's melody carried by
piano, bells, and strings. The track's magic makes me wish for a more fully
realized holiday album by these two talented artists, so I guess that will have
to be one of my wishes for the New Year. The track can be downloaded at Kathryn
Toyama's bandcamp page here: http://kathryntoyama.bandcamp.com/
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