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The Hampton String Quartet
What If Mozart Wrote “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” (1986)
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01) White Christmas
02) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an
03) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
04) The Little Drummer Boy
05) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
06) We Need a Little Christmas
07) Winter Wonderland
08) Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
09) Frosty the Snowman
10) Do You Hear What I Hear?
01) White Christmas
02) The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an
03) Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
04) The Little Drummer Boy
05) Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
06) We Need a Little Christmas
07) Winter Wonderland
08) Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow
09) Frosty the Snowman
10) Do You Hear What I Hear?
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1986
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According to the liner notes of their 1986 debut album, "What if Mozart wrote 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,'" the quartet was formed specifically for that album in response to RCA's desire to record chamber music arrangements of mostly-secular Christmas music. That album went on to sell close to a million copies and together with their following albums and CDs have made HSQ one of the largest selling string quartets in history.
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In the 20+ years since I bought this album, my tolerance for "Christmas" songs has diminished to almost zero. If my rating ignored the three songs here that I really could do without, I would have given the album three stars.
That said, these versions of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" have some of the contrasting and complementing voices that make a classical string quartet so interesting.
I'm not sure if the cover art is meant to suggest that some of these are supposed to sound as if Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, or Brahms had written them. I hear things in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" that DO remind me of the string quartets of Mozart or Haydn. But I've listened to Beethoven's string quartets lately, and I don't hear any Beethoven in these performances.)
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According to the liner notes of their 1986 debut album, "What if Mozart wrote 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,'" the quartet was formed specifically for that album in response to RCA's desire to record chamber music arrangements of mostly-secular Christmas music. That album went on to sell close to a million copies and together with their following albums and CDs have made HSQ one of the largest selling string quartets in history.
User Album Review
In the 20+ years since I bought this album, my tolerance for "Christmas" songs has diminished to almost zero. If my rating ignored the three songs here that I really could do without, I would have given the album three stars.
That said, these versions of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" and "Do You Hear What I Hear?" have some of the contrasting and complementing voices that make a classical string quartet so interesting.
I'm not sure if the cover art is meant to suggest that some of these are supposed to sound as if Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, or Brahms had written them. I hear things in "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" that DO remind me of the string quartets of Mozart or Haydn. But I've listened to Beethoven's string quartets lately, and I don't hear any Beethoven in these performances.)
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