Our Review
Where the Andes meet the Alps: this monstrously entertaining CD brings together Cusco's Peruvian sound with traditional choral voices of the Munich Opera Choir. Cusco's classics are much more accessible than many I have heard this year. Their sweet pan flutes, let loose upon Pachelbel, Bach, and Tchaikovsky, lightened my heart.
The presence of Pan gives the music a playfulness that is usually missing from most orchestral arrangements, even such obviously playful works as Pachelbel's Canon and that old joker, Bach. I was pleased with the inclusion of so many works of Bach, particularly Shepherd's Christmas Symphonia. The blending of voice with flute was most successful on the traditional Christ the Lord Is Born Today and Lo, How a Rose. Both of these blendings produced an ethereal quality unmatched by most New Age records.
I applaud the highly original arrangements of these classical master works, and I continue to sing the praises of Cusco.
--Richard Banks
(Reviewed in 1998)
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Cusco
A Choral Christmas
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Label: Higher Octave
Length: 51 minutes
Genre: New Age
Release: 1995
Track List
| Song Title |
|---|
| There Comes A Vessel Laden|In Dulci Jubilo |
| Silent Night |
| Jesus Stays My Joy |
| Lo, How A Rose |
| Canon |
| From Heaven Above |
| Christ The Lord Is Born Today |
| Swan Lake|The Nutcracker |
| Soon It Will Be Night |
| Shepherd's Christmas Synphonia |