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Annie Lennox – A Christmas Cornucopia / Island Records Audio CD 2010
UPC 602527533094
Product Details:
Product Description:
2010 holiday release from the Eurythmics vocalist, A Christmas Cornucopia is a collection of new, inspired interpretations of 11 traditional festive songs, rounded out by a new Lennox composition, 'Universal Child'. The music on the album was mostly played by Lennox, in collaboration with co producer Mike Stevens, and recorded in his southwest London studio - at the bottom of his garden. But to achieve the resonance and vibrancy that were integral to Lennox's ideas for these re-energized reboots, the pair also worked with a 30-piece orchestra at Pinewood Studios. And they travelled further afield too: to South Africa, to record with the African Children's Choir, a remarkable organization with which impassioned campaigner and activist Lennox has long had a relationship.
From the Artist:
"All the income that I earn from Universal Child will be paid to the Annie Lennox Foundation." The Annie Lennox Foundation, the stars own charity, raises money for charitable projects supporting and educating women and children in Africa with HIV/AIDS.
"I've known these songs, these carols all my life, I've sung them since I was little," says the songwriter and singer of The Holly And The Ivy, Silent Night, The First Noel and other, less-widely-known songs such as Il Est Ne Le Divin Enfant, and Lullay Lullay. " They're just in me. They're a huge part of my life. So it's not an arbitrary selection. Those relationships with those pieces of music were there intrinsically before I approached the recording."
Tracklist:
| 1 | Angels From The Realm Of Glory
Bass, Programmed By – Mike Stevens, Percussion – Mark Stevens, Piano, Panpipes, Triangle – Annie Lennox |
4:00 |
| 2 | God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Mixed By [Additional] – Heff Moraes, Organ – Annie Lennox, Oud, Drone, Bass, Programmed By – Mike Stevens, Percussion – Barry Van Zyl, Mark Stevens |
3:32 |
| 3 | See Amid The Winter's Snow
Guitar, Bass – Mike Stevens, Percussion – Mark Stevens, Piano, Harmonium, Flute – Annie Lennox |
3:31 |
| 4 | Il Est Né Le Divin Enfant
Bass, Guitar, Programmed By – Mike Stevens, Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Drums, Percussion – Barry Van Zyl, Mark Stevens, Piano, Panpipes, Harmonium, Electric Piano [Rhodes] – Annie Lennox |
3:37 |
| 5 | The First Noel
Bass, Guitar, Organ – Mike Stevens, Piano – Annie Lennox |
4:40 |
| 6 | Lullay Lullay (The Coventry Carol)
Bass, Guitar, Strings – Mike Stevens, Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Keyboards, Drum, Dulcimer – Annie Lennox, Percussion – Barry Van Zyl, Mark Stevens |
3:13 |
| 7 | The Holly And The Ivy
Bass, Glockenspiel, Keyboards [Keys] – Mike Stevens, Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Percussion – Mark Stevens, Piano, Flute, Drums – Annie Lennox |
3:37 |
| 8 | In The Bleak Midwinter
Flute, Keyboards, Drums, Harmonium, Accordion – Annie Lennox, Programmed By – Mike Stevens |
3:31 |
| 9 | As Joseph Was A Walking (The Cherry Tree Carol)
Bass, Strings, Organ – Mike Stevens, Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Percussion – Barry Van Zyl, Piano, Percussion, Vibraphone, Flute – Annie Lennox |
3:59 |
| 10 |
O Little Town Of Bethlehem
Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Guitar, Programmed By, Bass – Mike Stevens, Piano, Organ, Flute – Annie Lennox |
3:33 |
| 11 | Silent Night
Bass, Musical Box, Programmed By – Mike Stevens, Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Piano, Marimba, Percussion – Annie Lennox |
3:49 |
| 12 | Universal Child
Bass, Guitar, Organ – Mike Stevens, Choir – African Children's Choir, The, Percussion – Mark Stevens, Piano – Annie Lennox, Written-By – Annie Lennox |
4:14 |
More Details:
- Conductor [Choir] – Dave Robbins
- Conductor [Orchestra] – Rod Dunk
- Engineer [Choir] – Matt Allison
- Leader [Orchestra] – Tim Warburton
- Producer, Arranged By – Annie Lennox, Mike Stevens
About the Artist:
Ann Lennox OBE (born 25 December 1954) is a Scottish singer-songwriter, political activist and philanthropist. After achieving moderate success in the late 1970s as part of the new wave band The Tourists, she and fellow musician Dave Stewart went on to achieve international success in the 1980s as Eurythmics. Appearing in the 1983 music video for “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” with orange cropped hair and wearing a man's business suit, the BBC states, "all eyes were on Annie Lennox, the singer whose powerful androgynous look defied the male gaze". Subsequent hits with Eurythmics include "There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)" and "Here Comes the Rain Again".
Lennox embarked on a solo career in 1992 with her debut album, Diva, which produced several hit singles including "Why" and "Walking on Broken Glass". The same year, she performed "Love Song for a Vampire" for Bram Stoker's Dracula. Her 1995 studio album, Medusa, includes "No More I Love You's" and "A Whiter Shade of Pale". To date, she has released six solo studio albums and a compilation album, The Annie Lennox Collection (2009). With eight Brit Awards, which includes being named Best British Female Artist a record six times, Lennox has been named the "Brits Champion of Champions". She has also collected four Grammy Awards and an MTV Video Music Award. In 2002, Lennox received a Billboard Century Award; the highest accolade from Billboard magazine. In 2004, she received both the Golden Globe and the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Into the West", written for the soundtrack to the feature film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King.
Lennox's vocal range is contralto. She has been named "The Greatest White Soul Singer Alive" by VH1 and one of The 100 Greatest Singers of All Time by Rolling Stone. In 2012, she was rated No. 22 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women in Music. She has earned the distinction of "most successful female British artist in UK music history". As of June 2008, including her work with Eurythmics, Lennox had sold over 80 million records worldwide. As part of a one-hour symphony of British Music, Lennox performed "Little Bird" during the 2012 Summer Olympics closing ceremony in London. At the 2015 Ivor Novello Awards, Lennox was made a fellow of the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the first woman to receive the honour.
In addition to her career as a musician, Lennox is also a political and social activist, notable for raising money and awareness for HIV/ AIDS as it affects women and children in Africa. In 2011, Lennox was appointed an OBE by Queen Elizabeth II for her "tireless charity campaigns and championing of humanitarian causes". On 4 June 2012 she performed at the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Concert in front of Buckingham Palace. In 2017, Lennox was appointed Glasgow Caledonian University's first female chancellor.
