I remember the first time played this for my wife. It was winter, close to Christmas time. The snow was falling and the sun was going down. I moved our couch over to our big window to where we could snuggle. She had never heard of "George Winston" but I had. Every flake had its own personality as well as reason for falling where it did. Beautiful wife, great music and nothing but pure snow. Snow falling in slow motion and at that moment, the world was mine. My wife has since passed away, but the memories that George has made for me will always remain there for me. Thank you George....
I am so sorry for the loss of your wife. You two must have had such a lovely relationship. I'm glad good memories remain. They are the best medicine, I find.
Thank you for this rememberance.... I am certain that this exactly why George spent the rest of his days bringing these sounds Directly to those who were crystalized and bonded by its limmerance 💙
Dear Mr. Winston, I am writing this message on a cold January evening while I am listening to Carol of the Bells from you. Whenever I listen to it, it touches my heart. Thank you for giving this song to us.
I remember one quiet Christmas eve a long time ago, playing this while the snow fell softly outside. Friends were over and we just turned down the lights and looked out the windows for hours . One of the finest, most perfect nights of my life.
RIP beautiful man,thank you for all your gifts of playing. My mom and I saw you in 2016,before she passed. It will shine forever in my heart. Our Birthdays are both the same, Feb 11th. Ive listened to you long before that and continue to .Forever and ever!!!!! I listen to you for motivation while i paint
I remember as a boy in Mystic CT in the early to mid 80s with snow falling and the house cold and all quiet at Christmas time and this playing. Magical.
This is the best Christmas album ever! I bought this over 20 years ago. My children were just little ones. I would play this in our car while we would be out Christmas shopping and then go out to dinner. I loved that.
My college roommate had this on cassette in the early/mid 80s. I loved it then and love it now. I've bought the CD a few times since it gets borrowed and...kept!
Different Fur studio's San Francisco late 70''s early 80's. Windham Hill always recorded there. They had a great 70's Yamaha C7. The magic is 50% the recording & 50% the arrangement. The arrangements are fantastic - George Winston does not get the credit he deserves from the snob music community. But if you play his pieces on your own piano or even a pro setup it's difficult to achieve the same emotion. Anyway the piano was mic'd w/ a pair of Neumann U67's in a placement that sounds amazing. I am certain they are going through a pair of LA2A limiters (the character is all over the dynamic parts). Also I would assume a pair of analog EQ's among other outboard. I talked to the recording engineers a few times but they wouldn't divulge the exact setup or didn't remember. I felt they might be slightly annoyed by being asked about George Winston a lot after all the years. I've got close but not all the way to the magic GW sound. One thing I find apparent is that a lot of the pieces are edited you can hear the edits where the takes don't mesh very well or there are slight tempo changes. I think of him as a great arranger w/ great voicings & experimentation and an excellent ear moreso than a straight up painist. He gets beat up by the professional community but I'll take his contribution to music any day over the 1000's of top level pianists playing the same pieces w/ no ability to improvise and not contributing anything to music.
I was 14 or 15 when I bought this as my very first CD from Wal-Mart it was part of a Christmas gift that I received early that year a (CD Player). I had that CD and listen to it regularly through the following years until I lost it a few years ago in a house fire. Every time I hear this song as well as the other on that album, it takes me back home. Thank you.
I was so lucky to see him in a solo concert. He came to the stage, dressed like a cowboy, without saying a word. And started to play immediately. From that moment on, nobody in the concert hall dared to breathe.
This and Windham Hill's rendition of this beauty are two of my favorite Christmas carols ! They're on my TH-cam playlist year around ... Well done GW ! Thank you ! And God bless you !
Windham Hill is a label, not a artist. George Winston released several albums (including "December" which this music comes from), on the Windham Hill label.
One of my go to's, STILL, at CHRISTmastime---was turned on to this (literal) album, by a sub KB player in a wedding/GB band I was in back in the mid 80s. Timeless; such amazing interpretations of some beloved traditional carols and classical pieces, and his own compositions---divine! Got to hear/see him play at Mechanics Hall/Worcester MA. Merry CHRISTmas, everyone!
I am really in love with your compositions. Always a enjoyment listening to them. Time to get back to work on some of my own. Although I think I have this stuck in my head. :-O 👌
I just read that the original composition is actually a Ukrainian folk song. This song will have much greater meaning for me after the Russian invasion. Slava Ukraini!
Source material is Ukrainian Carol of the Bells. Another version by a Ukrainian women's choir. Shimmering, beautiful: th-cam.com/video/gBDFMD5kLvc/w-d-xo.html
You're very good and this song is just wonderful. My choir sang it using a new arrangement and a spectacular video. Write this in the search: you will surely like it. Corale Novarmonia - Carol of the bells (M. Leontovich)
This is a great song, but its better if you're fried. I imagine someone covering this with electric guitars, especially because of the long middle section.
This is criminal. You didnt invent phones. We dont owe chd or relatives ongoing homsteading to Alexander Graham Bells family or cooperatives who attach our National cultural establishments to try to ( LMAO ) shove our product show place into the phone as a facade to stealing our phone needs back to Pacific Bells lineage. Pacific Bells owed us the company clear division from our personal causes or ('hobbies') 40 years ago. Design is more or AS valuable than revisiting the conductivity of copper metals and material yet Pacific Bells grow a new name and takes designers down to poor in a stupid bent cycle of jealousy because these videos dont do our needs pay. Quit stealing design, Pacific Bells Hellebores. Pay a fair share per compatibility and sketch. I shouldve gotten at least 3 million if by now, Oned, and yes, my WORK was Oned before i understood... phoney company
I remember the first time played this for my wife. It was winter, close to Christmas time. The snow was falling and the sun was going down. I moved our couch over to our big window to where we could snuggle. She had never heard of "George Winston" but I had. Every flake had its own personality as well as reason for falling where it did. Beautiful wife, great music and nothing but pure snow. Snow falling in slow motion and at that moment, the world was mine. My wife has since passed away, but the memories that George has made for me will always remain there for me. Thank you George....
I am so sorry for the loss of your wife. You two must have had such a lovely relationship. I'm glad good memories remain. They are the best medicine, I find.
The Best Medicine Is God's Word - His Healing Love !+!
Thank you for this rememberance....
I am certain that this exactly why George spent the rest of his days bringing these sounds Directly to those who were crystalized and bonded by its limmerance 💙
love
Your words painted a serene picture and also brought me to tears.
I've been listening to this for 36 years. Still no equal.
RIP George, you left a mark.
RIP George. This is one of my favorite songs of the season. Every year since I was 4.
RIP George Winston ...your music was the background while I was hand quilting for many years!!
"Energy Can Neither Be Created Nor Destroyed"
Dear Mr. Winston,
I am writing this message on a cold January evening while I am listening to Carol of the Bells from you. Whenever I listen to it, it touches my heart. Thank you for giving this song to us.
and to you year dear
Rest his soul in piece
Betcha he heard you.
Best version of this I've ever heard to this day.
Have listened to album for many years. One of the best piano arrangements with excellent playing.
I heard this song years ago driving home through a beautiful snowy blizzard...calmed my nerves and made me enjoy the snow falling....RIP Mr Winston.
What a genius to write and perform such gorgeous music 🎶
I remember one quiet Christmas eve a long time ago, playing this while the snow fell softly outside. Friends were over and we just turned down the lights and looked out the windows for hours . One of the finest, most perfect nights of my life.
A solo piano, and Winston's playing and arrangements have more fire and intensity than entire orchestras and choirs performing these songs.
RIP beautiful man,thank you for all your gifts of playing. My mom and I saw you in 2016,before she passed. It will shine forever in my heart. Our Birthdays are both the same, Feb 11th. Ive listened to you long before that and continue to .Forever and ever!!!!! I listen to you for motivation while i paint
I’ve been looking for this for like 3 years and I found it, my god I’m so happy
First heard this in the mid 80's and it's still just as fresh and beautiful today. One of my all time favourite albums and artist,
+Sonja Pierce Same here. Perfect album for the season. Driving around on a snowy winter night...first disk in my CD player.
Scary how long ago it was; I bought his LP's!!!! Heard him at the Dorothy Chandler back then as well.
This is the best arrangement of this song I've ever heard.
What is it with this song and bringing back old memories?
I remember as a boy in Mystic CT in the early to mid 80s with snow falling and the house cold and all quiet at Christmas time and this playing. Magical.
This is the best Christmas album ever! I bought this over 20 years ago. My children were just little ones. I would play this in our car while we would be out Christmas shopping and then go out to dinner. I loved that.
Stunning.
My college roommate had this on cassette in the early/mid 80s. I loved it then and love it now. I've bought the CD a few times since it gets borrowed and...kept!
I don't know how GW manages to get his tone to sound so bright, pearly, and cold. It's perfect for this album.
Different Fur studio's San Francisco late 70''s early 80's. Windham Hill always recorded there. They had a great 70's Yamaha C7. The magic is 50% the recording & 50% the arrangement. The arrangements are fantastic - George Winston does not get the credit he deserves from the snob music community. But if you play his pieces on your own piano or even a pro setup it's difficult to achieve the same emotion. Anyway the piano was mic'd w/ a pair of Neumann U67's in a placement that sounds amazing. I am certain they are going through a pair of LA2A limiters (the character is all over the dynamic parts). Also I would assume a pair of analog EQ's among other outboard. I talked to the recording engineers a few times but they wouldn't divulge the exact setup or didn't remember. I felt they might be slightly annoyed by being asked about George Winston a lot after all the years. I've got close but not all the way to the magic GW sound. One thing I find apparent is that a lot of the pieces are edited you can hear the edits where the takes don't mesh very well or there are slight tempo changes. I think of him as a great arranger w/ great voicings & experimentation and an excellent ear moreso than a straight up painist. He gets beat up by the professional community but I'll take his contribution to music any day over the 1000's of top level pianists playing the same pieces w/ no ability to improvise and not contributing anything to music.
@@bcastromusicawesome info and take. Thank you!
子供の頃に耳にして、美しく儚いメロディーが忘れられませんでした。しかし当時はタイトルも何もわかりませんでした。でも社会人になり、ジョージ・ウィンストンさんの曲と分かって、CDを買い求めに行きました。素晴らしい出会いに感謝してます。
I was 14 or 15 when I bought this as my very first CD from Wal-Mart it was part of a Christmas gift that I received early that year a (CD Player). I had that CD and listen to it regularly through the following years until I lost it a few years ago in a house fire. Every time I hear this song as well as the other on that album, it takes me back home. Thank you.
Finally I found this version again!
RIP George
I was so lucky to see him in a solo concert. He came to the stage, dressed like a cowboy, without saying a word. And started to play immediately. From that moment on, nobody in the concert hall dared to breathe.
Same experience. Civic Auditorium, Portland, Oregon, 1982. Unforgettable.
He is far from a cowboy, though, much like others now. Cowboy pop culture is something else.
Indeed a master piece to savor
스타벅스에서 우연히 듣게 됐는데 너무 좋아서 찾아보게 되었습니다. 좋은 음악 감사합니다.
Next year will mark 40 years since the debut of this album.
Wow! I had no idea! I had heard his music long ago, but didn't realize it had been that long. Time!
R.I.P George..
a masterpiece!
If I could have all the holiday music ever recorded or this, I would choose this.
Glorious! You will be missed.
RIP
This and Windham Hill's rendition of this beauty are two of my favorite Christmas carols ! They're on my TH-cam playlist year around ... Well done GW ! Thank you ! And God bless you !
Windham Hill is a label, not a artist. George Winston released several albums (including "December" which this music comes from), on the Windham Hill label.
Which God, do you mean Thor?
Magnificent, lovely, heartfelt
Just by listening winter comes to my mind
One of my go to's, STILL, at CHRISTmastime---was turned on to this (literal) album, by a sub KB player in a wedding/GB band I was in back in the mid 80s. Timeless; such amazing interpretations of some beloved traditional carols and classical pieces, and his own compositions---divine! Got to hear/see him play at Mechanics Hall/Worcester MA. Merry CHRISTmas, everyone!
crystalline magic!
Rest In Peace
Great arrangement !
Oh, one of my favorites from this CD. Thank you for sharing it!
I love this album!
BRAVO !!!
just brilliant
Beautiful! I love this version!
my soul opened up on this one
Very smooth !
Absolutely gorgeous!
💙💙💙
Maravillosa musica....thanks
amazing, roll on Christmas
Very nicely done
whoa! bringing back loads of memories!
Burns my 🎲.
This is a solo?
Incredible...
I am really in love with your compositions. Always a enjoyment listening to them. Time to get back to work on some of my own. Although I think I have this stuck in my head. :-O 👌
Somebody should do an organ version of this song.
👍👍👍👍👍
🙌🏽
My kathy is playing . .i love U
Just read George is no longer with us the living.
Merry Xmas 2020!
🎼🎵🎵🎵♥️
Is there sheet music for this arrangement?
vivian ryder yes I am playing it right now
@@aqua_y8401 same here😁
앤드류마린시티good~
I just read that the original composition is actually a Ukrainian folk song. This song will have much greater meaning for me after the Russian invasion. Slava Ukraini!
I couldn't care less.
@@FarmersAreDummies Where’s your heart man?
Keep your politics out!!
@@alexanderkirk3126 Nah, maybe when Russia stops this needless invasion I will.
Source material is Ukrainian Carol of the Bells. Another version by a Ukrainian women's choir. Shimmering, beautiful:
th-cam.com/video/gBDFMD5kLvc/w-d-xo.html
it doesnt feel real that hes gone
You're very good and this song is just wonderful. My choir sang it using a new arrangement and a spectacular video. Write this in the search: you will surely like it.
Corale Novarmonia - Carol of the bells (M. Leontovich)
Someone should add some Christmas words to this piano solo.
"Ring Christmas bells. Tell all the world Jesus is here, etc..."
This sounds amazing at 1.25x speed :D
This is a great song, but its better if you're fried.
I imagine someone covering this with electric guitars, especially because of the long middle section.
Snowman
Ceux qui viennent du collège Gambetta écrivez un Com
sounds better faster
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This is criminal. You didnt invent phones. We dont owe chd or relatives ongoing homsteading to Alexander Graham Bells family or cooperatives who attach our National cultural establishments to try to ( LMAO ) shove our product show place into the phone as a facade to stealing our phone needs back to Pacific Bells lineage.
Pacific Bells owed us the company clear division from our personal causes or ('hobbies') 40 years ago.
Design is more or AS valuable than revisiting the conductivity of copper metals and material yet Pacific Bells grow a new name and takes designers down to poor in a stupid bent cycle of jealousy because these videos dont do our needs pay.
Quit stealing design, Pacific Bells Hellebores.
Pay a fair share per compatibility and sketch.
I shouldve gotten at least 3 million if by now, Oned, and yes, my WORK was Oned before i understood...
phoney company
Huh..?
Very nicely done
Very nicely done