Christmas Gift

~ Release by KOKIA (see all versions of this release, 2 available)

Tracklist

▼ CD 1
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1Amazing Grace
cello:
Tomoki Tai (cellist / viola da gamba)
viola and violin:
Kouichirou Muroya
arranger:
KOKIA
recording of:
Amazing Grace (popular hymn first published 1779, catch‐all)
publisher:
Alfred Music (publisher of sheet music for music education)
lyricist and writer:
John Newton (English poet) (in 1779)
additional composer:
Edwin Othello Excell
composer:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist) and [traditional] (special purpose artist)
publisher:
Carlin Music Corporation, EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Patterdale Music Ltd., Rokstone Music Ltd., Universal Classics & Jazz (Japanese label division - read the annotation before using!), Universal Music Publishing Group Japan (work publisher – do NOT use as a release label), イーエムアイ音楽出版 C・F事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
part of:
Viisikielinen (Song book of "Viides herätysliike") (number: 94)
4:48
2Hallelujah
instruments:
Kiyohide Ura
arranger:
Kiyohide Ura
cover recording of:
Hallelujah
lyricist and composer:
Leonard Cohen (Canadian singer-songwriter and poet)
publisher:
Bad Monk Publishing, SM Publishing Argentina S.R.L., Sony/ATV Music LLC, Sony/ATV Music Publishing (UK) Ltd., Sony/ATV Music Publishing, LLC (1995–2020), Sony/ATV Songs LLC and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング A事業部
sub-publisher:
Sony/ATV Music Publishing (Hong Kong)
4:44
3I’ll Be Home for Christmas
cello:
Tomoki Tai (cellist / viola da gamba)
viola and violin:
Kouichirou Muroya
arranger:
Ryousuke Nakanishi
recording of:
I’ll Be Home for Christmas
lyricist:
Kim Gannon
additional writer:
Buck Ram
composer:
Walter Kent
publisher:
Chappell Music Ltd., Edward B. Marks Music Co. (founded originally as J. Stern & Co. in 1894, renamed in 1919), Gannon and Kent Music Co. and Piedmont Music Company
sub-publisher:
ヤマハミュージックエンタテインメントホールディングス (holding company – do not use as release label) and ワーナー・チャペル音楽出版 Synch事業部
4:17
4We Three Kings of Orient Are
programming:
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (Usatrene records)
bass [wood bass]:
Shigeki Serizawa
guitar [guitars]:
Masayoshi Furukawa
keyboard [keyboards]:
Atsushi Kawahata
percussion:
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (Usatrene records)
soprano saxophone:
Hirokazu"trance katz"Ishida
arranger:
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (Usatrene records)
recording of:
We Three Kings
lyricist and composer:
John Henry Hopkins, Jr. (composer, “We Three Kings”)
part of:
Roud Folk Song Index (number: 24751)
4:38
5Christmas Medley
programming:
Sunny (KOKIA arrangement/programming)
brushes [brush snare]:
Takahito Sakaki
guitar [guitars]:
Kiyoto Konda
arranger:
Sunny (KOKIA arrangement/programming)
medley including a recording of:
Carol of the Drum (aka “The Little Drummer Boy”)
lyricist and composer:
Katherine K. Davis (in 1941)
additional composer:
Henry Onorati (in 1958) and Harry Simeone (in 1958)
publisher:
EMI Mills Music (ASCAP-affiliated), International Korwin Corp., Belwin-Mills Publishing Corp. (in 1955) and Mills Music, Inc. (in 1964)
is based on:
Trad. (traditional Czech carol, became “Carol of the Drums”)
part of:
Psalty's Family Christmas Sing-A-Long
medley including a recording of:
Jingle Bells
lyricist and composer:
James Lord Pierpont (in 1850)
publisher:
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
composed at and lyrics written at:
Simpson Tavern in Medford, Massachusetts, United States (in 1850)
medley including a recording of:
Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
lyricist:
Sammy Cahn (in 1945-07)
composer:
Jule Styne (in 1945-07)
publisher:
Cahn Music Company, Chappell & Co., Chappell/Morris Ltd., Cherry Lane Music Ltd., Imagen Music, Producers Music Publishing Co., Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996), Warner Chappell North America and WB Music Corp. (1929–2019)
medley including a recording of:
Santa Claus Is Coming to Town
lyricist:
Haven Gillespie (in 1932)
composer:
J. Fred Coots (in 1932)
publisher:
EMI Feist Catalog Inc., EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), EMI United Partnership Ltd., Francis, Day & Hunter Ltd., Haven Gillespie Music Publishing, Jobete Music Co., Inc., Leo Feist Ltd, Leo Feist, Inc., SBK United Partnership and The Songwriters Guild
medley including a recording of:
The First Noël
publisher:
William B. Sandys (in 1823, in 1833)
additional lyricist:
Davies Gilbert (in 1823)
lyricist and composer:
[traditional] (special purpose artist)
additional arranger:
Sir John Stainer (in 1871)
arranger:
Davies Gilbert (in 1823)
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 36)
version of:
The First Nowell
part of:
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944 film)
13:21
6Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
programming:
Sunny (KOKIA arrangement/programming)
arranger:
Sunny (KOKIA arrangement/programming)
cover recording of:
Teo Torriatte (Let Us Cling Together)
lyricist and composer:
Brian May (Queen guitarist)
publisher:
Beechwood Music Corp., EMI Music Publishing France, EMI Music Publishing Ltd. (PRS‐affiliated), Queen Music Ltd., イーエムアイ音楽出版 ソニー事業部 (until 2021-06-30) and ソニー・ミュージックパブリッシング EMI外国事業部 (sub‐publisher for foreign (non‐Japanese) works) (from 2021-07-01 to present)
4:35
7Ave Maria
cello:
Tomoki Tai (cellist / viola da gamba)
violin:
Kouichirou Muroya
arranger:
Ryousuke Nakanishi
recording of:
Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
lyricist:
[anonymous] (special purpose artist)
composer:
Johann Sebastian Bach (German Baroque period composer & musician) and Charles Gounod (French composer) (in 1853)
is based on:
Méditation sur le Premier Prélude de Piano de S. Bach
is based on:
The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude and Fugue no. 1 in C major, BWV 846: Prelude
3:02
8It Came Upon the Midnight Clear
programming:
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (Usatrene records)
cello:
Ayako Karasawa
guitar [guitars]:
Masayoshi Furukawa
keyboard [keyboards]:
Atsushi Kawahata
percussion:
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (Usatrene records)
siku [zampona]:
Hiroyasu Okada
arranger:
Yasuhisa Yamamoto (Usatrene records)
recording of:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (carol version)
lyricist:
Edmund Sears
composer:
Richard Storrs Willis
part of:
The New English Hymnal (hymn book) (number: 29)
is based on:
CAROL (hymn tune)
is based on:
It Came Upon the Midnight Clear (poem)
5:11
9聖なる夜に～holy night
instruments:
Kiyohide Ura
arranger:
Kiyohide Ura
recording of:
聖なる夜に～holy night
lyricist and composer:
KOKIA
4:36
10心のロウソク
piano:
Kiyohide Ura
recording of:
心のロウソク
lyricist and composer:
KOKIA
5:36
11Remember the kiss 〜 Dedicated to “new” NY 〜
Hammond organ [B3 organ]:
Joeworn S. Martin
arranger:
Toney Rhodes
recording of:
Remember the kiss
lyricist and composer:
KOKIA
6:22

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Release

ASIN:JP: B001EY6NCK [info]

Release group

Wikidata:Q5111360 [info]