George Winston – December
Tracklist
A1 | Thanksgiving | 4:40 | |
A2 | Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head | 2:40 | |
A3 | Joy | 3:13 | |
A4 | Prelude | 1:16 | |
A5 | Carol Of The Bells | 3:56 | |
Night | (5:47) | ||
A6.a | Part One: Snow | 1:51 | |
A6.b | Part Two: Midnight | 1:56 | |
A6.c | Part Three: Minstrels | 2:00 | |
B1 | Variations On The Kanon By Johann Pachelbel | 5:21 | |
B2 | The Holly And The Ivy | 4:52 | |
B3 | Some Children See Him | 3:43 | |
B4 | Peace | 4:02 |
Companies, etc.
- Recorded At – Different Fur Studios
- Manufactured By – Windham Hill Records
Credits
- Composed By – Traditional (tracks: A2, A3, A5, B1 to B3)
- Design – Will Ackerman*
- Engineer – Steven Miller
- Engineer [Second] – Karen Kirsch
- Mastered By – Jack Hunt
- Photography – Greg Edmonds
- Piano – George Winston
- Producer – William Ackerman
Notes
Recorded in September and October of 1982 at Different Fur Recording, San Francisco, CA
Track A1 inspired by friends and places of Miles City, Montana.
Track A2 an Appalachian carol of the late Eighteen Hundreds. Collected by the eminent folklorist John Jacob Niles.
Track A3 Inspired by an arrangement by David Qualey.
Track A5 a Nineteenth Century Ukrainian carol.
Track A6 Minstrels was inspired by St. Basil's Hymn, a traditional Greek children's New Year's carol based upon a rendition by Malcolm Dalgish.
Track B1 composed circa 1699, the Kanon was originally an organ piece.
Track B2 an Eighteenth Century English carol based upon an earlier French carol.
Track B3 composed in 1951 by Jazz trumpeter Alfred S. Burt [1921 - 1954]. Some Children See Him was one of fifteen carols written as gifts for friends. The piece was originally a song with lyrics by Wilha Hutson expressing the unconditional love present within children.
This recording was made direct to two-track using a Studer A 80 VU MK III half-inch recorder at thirty inches per second. No noise reduction was employed. KEF speakers were used for audio monitoring and referencing on this recording.
Subpublished by E.R.P. Musikverlag, München
Manufactured by Windham Hill Records
A Division of Windham Hill Productions Inc.
Box 9388 Stanford, CA 94305
©℗Windham Hill Records 1982
Track A1 inspired by friends and places of Miles City, Montana.
Track A2 an Appalachian carol of the late Eighteen Hundreds. Collected by the eminent folklorist John Jacob Niles.
Track A3 Inspired by an arrangement by David Qualey.
Track A5 a Nineteenth Century Ukrainian carol.
Track A6 Minstrels was inspired by St. Basil's Hymn, a traditional Greek children's New Year's carol based upon a rendition by Malcolm Dalgish.
Track B1 composed circa 1699, the Kanon was originally an organ piece.
Track B2 an Eighteenth Century English carol based upon an earlier French carol.
Track B3 composed in 1951 by Jazz trumpeter Alfred S. Burt [1921 - 1954]. Some Children See Him was one of fifteen carols written as gifts for friends. The piece was originally a song with lyrics by Wilha Hutson expressing the unconditional love present within children.
This recording was made direct to two-track using a Studer A 80 VU MK III half-inch recorder at thirty inches per second. No noise reduction was employed. KEF speakers were used for audio monitoring and referencing on this recording.
Subpublished by E.R.P. Musikverlag, München
Manufactured by Windham Hill Records
A Division of Windham Hill Productions Inc.
Box 9388 Stanford, CA 94305
©℗Windham Hill Records 1982
Barcode and Other Identifiers
- Label Code: LC 9757
- Rights Society: Gema
Other Versions (5 of 111)
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December (Cassette, Album) | Windham Hill Records | WT-1025 | US | 1982 | ||
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December (LP, Album) | Windham Hill Records | L 38158, WH 1025 | Australia | 1982 | ||
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December (LP, Album, Promo) | Windham Hill Records | C-1025 | US | 1982 | ||
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December (LP, Album) | Windham Hill Records | C28Y5002 | Japan | 1982 | ||
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December (LP, Album) | A&M Records | AMWH 61025 | Europe | 1982 |
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Reviews
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Edited 2 years agoI bought the German release of the instanst smash hit December (re-/released almost 600 times...) here in Sweden in 1982 as a DMM, Digital Metal Mastering*, LP, developed by German (of course...) Kornet - Digital Master / Direct Cut 3 years earlier, which was Sweden's first DMM release ever (the A side only). And just as with the first CDs, DMM was critisized for sounding "cold"...
Also, I'd already already imported the sampler; Anne Robinson (2).
But my main interest was electronic music since the early 1970s (Erik Satie (1866-1925)...
I never really returned to WHR, ie. until I re-discovered Robbie Basho a few years ago...yada, yada, yada.
Anyway, RIP, Geeorge Winston, 73, June 4, 2023 after having fought cancer for 10 years. He was just about to tour when things recently turned for the worse.
/Jörg, Sweden
*) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct_metal_mastering
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