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The U.S. Steinway & Sons label has made a strong impact with albums by performers who evoke the concert atmosphere of a hundred years ago: the era, as it happens, when the Steinway piano was supreme. British pianist Simon Mulligan does this, but not with quite the same classical repertoire as other pianists on the label. Mulligan has played both classical music and jazz, but here he offers a kind of salon music that has improvised elements, but for the most part is not jazz. (The exception is the upbeat I'll Be Home for Christmas.) The music consists entirely of Christmas or holiday-season tunes, but even such a chestnut as Winter Wonderland is fresh, a bit meditative in Mulligan's hands. Steinway's engineers have made great strides forward in showcasing their home hall at its best, and the mood struck by the sound design here is deep. For a classy soundtrack to your Christmas gathering you couldn't do better than this, but there's more to Mulligan's album than simply background music.
© James Manheim /TiVo
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FRANK LOESSER, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Mel TORME, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Felix Bernard, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer - Adam Adolphe, Composer
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Felix Mendelssohn, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Traditional, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Traditional, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2017 Steinway and Sons 2017 (P) Steinway and Sons
Traditional, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
2017 Steinway and Sons 2017 (P) Steinway and Sons
William J. Kirkpatrick, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Henry Walford Davies, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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WALTER KENT, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Hugh Martin, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Franz Xaver Gruber, Composer - Simon Mulligan, Arranger, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer
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Album review
The U.S. Steinway & Sons label has made a strong impact with albums by performers who evoke the concert atmosphere of a hundred years ago: the era, as it happens, when the Steinway piano was supreme. British pianist Simon Mulligan does this, but not with quite the same classical repertoire as other pianists on the label. Mulligan has played both classical music and jazz, but here he offers a kind of salon music that has improvised elements, but for the most part is not jazz. (The exception is the upbeat I'll Be Home for Christmas.) The music consists entirely of Christmas or holiday-season tunes, but even such a chestnut as Winter Wonderland is fresh, a bit meditative in Mulligan's hands. Steinway's engineers have made great strides forward in showcasing their home hall at its best, and the mood struck by the sound design here is deep. For a classy soundtrack to your Christmas gathering you couldn't do better than this, but there's more to Mulligan's album than simply background music.
© James Manheim /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 13 track(s)
- Total length: 00:59:39
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Simon Mulligan
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Steinway and Sons
- Genre: Classical
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