Artist: Turtle Island String Quartet
Album: By the Fireside
Genre: Third Stream / Classical Crossover
Label: Windham Hill Records
Released: 1995
Quality: FLAC (image+.cue)
Tracklist:
- Darol Anger / Near Northern
- Tracy Silverman / The 12th of December
- Darol Anger / Row, Brothers, Row
- Mark Summer / Turning Twice
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (variations on) / Thin Ice (Var. on Winter from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons")
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (variations on) / Texas Rain (Var. on Winter from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons")
- Vivaldi's Four Seasons (variations on) / Snow What? (Var. on Winter from Vivaldi's "Four Seasons")
- M. Warshavsky / By the Fireside
- M. Praetorius / Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
- P. Tchaikovsky / Silverman: Winter in Cairo
- Traditional / Bring a Torch
- Garrison Keillor / Do Something Nice for your Mother
- JS Bach / Silverman: Andante
- John Lennon, Yoko Ono / Silverman: Happy Xmas (War is Over)
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- Personnel:
- Tracy Silverman (violin, electric 6-string violin, vocals);
- Darol Anger (violin, baritone violin, octave mandolin);
- Danny Seidenberg (viola);
- Mark Summer (cello, cello percussion).
Additional personnel: - Vickie Randle, Linda Tillery (vocals);
- Garrison Keillor (spoken vocals);
- David Lebolt (piano, Hammond B-3 organ);
- Phil Aaberg (piano);
- Michael Manring (electric fretless bass);
- Paul Van Wageningen (drums);
- Joe Craven (percussion).
On their Christmas album, By the Fireside, The Turtle Island String Quartet interprets a number of classical pieces that fit the mood of the season, as well as recording several carols, and contributing several of their own songs. Featuring a guest vocal from Garrison Keillor, By the Fireside is designed to please their fans and it should, even if it won't win them any new ones.