So how did Seth and Joel go about choosing the holiday songs that would be featured on this recording?
Those flawless voices of Gedda, Schwarzkopf and Ludwig feature on this recording too; a reading of the Requiem that distils the power, the drama, the might and the heartbreaking beauty of Verdi's masterpiece and makes me, despite so many wonderful modern accounts, return to it again and again.
I had been thinking about the song "Blue Period," a gorgeous and heartbreaking duet by lead Smithereen Pat DiNizio and Go-Go Belinda Carlisle, featured on this record.
One feature of this recording that distinguishes it from the rat in vivo recordings so far reported is the large tonic hyperpolarizing current that was applied to the neuron.
A feature of this recording is the casting of a soprano Nerone in acts I and III, and a tenor Nerone in act II, to allow for the differing vocal requirements of the role in these acts.
If you don't believe us, then just watch this video, which features the record label's whole posse positively reveling in the everyday pleasures of life in Britain.
A 2012 film with Gael García Bernal, No, featured our recording.
24 – this recording featured original Madness guitarist Chris Foreman, who had re-joined the band in time for the 2006 Christmas tour, but had not participated in the original recording of the song.
This recording featured Helen Morgan, Paul Robeson, James Melton, Frank Munn, and Countess Olga Albani, and was issued in conjunction with the 1932 revival of the show, although it was not strictly an "original cast" album of that revival.
The studio featured mostly secondhand recording equipment.
