Loreena McKennitt - To Drive The Cold Winter Away Album

Tracklist

1	In Praise Of Christmas Accordion, Harp, Vocals – Loreena McKennittViol – Shannon Purves-SmithWritten-By – Traditional English (Eighteenth Century)	6:06
2	Balulalow Vocals – Loreena McKennittWritten-By – Traditional Scottish	3:09
3	Banquet Hall Cymbal [Finger Cymbals], Harp [Troubador And Celtic Harps], Tambourine, Written-By – Loreena McKennitt	3:53
4	The Seasons Accordion, Harp, Vocals – Loreena McKennittWritten-By – Traditional English (Nineteenth Century)	4:55
5	The King Accordion, Vocals – Loreena McKennittVocals – Cedric SmithWritten-By – Traditional English	2:04
6	Snow Lyrics By – Archibald LampmanMusic By, Tin Whistle, Vocals – Loreena McKennitt	5:35
7	Let All That Are To Mirth Inclined Vocals – Loreena McKennittWritten-By – Traditional English	6:52
8	The Wexford Carol Viol – Shannon Purves-SmithVocals, Harp – Loreena McKennittWritten-By – Traditional Irish	6:07
9	Let Us The Infant Greet Vocals, Harp – Loreena McKennittWritten-By – Traditional English	3:46
10	The Stockford Carol Harp [Troubador Harp], Written-By – Loreena McKennitt	3:02

Versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
QRCD 102	Loreena McKennitt	To Drive The Cold Winter Away ‎(CD, Album)	Quinlan Road	QRCD 102	Canada	1987
QRCD102D	Loreena McKennitt	To Drive The Cold Winter Away ‎(CD, Album, Enh, Ltd, RE, RM + DVD-V, 5.1)	Quinlan Road	QRCD102D	Europe	2004
QRCD102	Loreena McKennitt	To Drive The Cold Winter Away ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP)	Quinlan Road	QRCD102	France	1998
QRCD102	Loreena McKennitt	To Drive The Cold Winter Away ‎(CD, Album, RE, RP)	Quinlan Road	QRCD102	Canada	1994
QR 102, BM 1458	Loreena McKennitt	To Drive The Cold Winter Away ‎(Cass, Album)	Quinlan Road, Balet Plak	QR 102, BM 1458	Turkey	1996

Credits

• Cover – Richard Dadd
• Design [Package Design] – Scott McKowen
• Producer, Arranged By – Loreena McKennitt
• Recorded By [Recorded Digitally By], Tracking By [Overdubs] – John Hazen

Notes

℗ © 1987 Quinlan Road Limited. Box No. 933, Stratford, Ontario, Canada N5A 7M3.
Manufactured & Distributed by Warner Music Canada Ltd, a Time Warner Company. 1810 Birchmount Rd., Scarborough, Ontario, M1P 2J1.

All tracks SOCAN.

Made in Canada.
Recorded at Church of Our Lady, Guelph. [A1, A3 & B3]
Recorded at Annaghmakerrig, Ireland. [A2 & A4]
Recorded at Glenstal Abbey, Ireland. [A5, B1, B2 & B5]
Recorded digitally, live to two track with overdubs, by John Hazen, Hazen Projects, Toronto.

Barcodes

• Barcode: 0 9031-76310-4 2

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Parallel Dreams1989 , Studio Album. To Drive The Cold Winter Away1987 , Seasonal Recording. Elemental1985 , Studio Album. No Journeys EndDVD. Traditional winter and seasonal songs recorded on location in a Canadian church and in a monastery and artists retreat in Ireland. McKennitt has succeeded in making a beautiful, haunting, and ambitious yuletide song cycle that despite taking itself a little too seriously, ranks among her finest. Cd ótimo para se conectar com seu eu espiritual, com tons musicais das antigas religiões ancestrais, ótimo para ambientação e encontro com seu eu superior. To Drive the Cold Winter Away is Loreena McKennitt's second album, released in 1987. It pays homage to her childhood memories of music for the winter season, the most vivid of which came from songs and carols recorded in churches or great halls, rich with their own unique ambience and tradition. To capture that remembered ambiance, McKennitt kept the arrangements sparse, celebrating the beauty of simplicity. She also chose to leave the found sounds of life in the performances, which were recorded. Songs in album Loreena McKennitt - To Drive The Cold Winter Away 1987. Loreena McKennitt - In Praise Of Christmas. Update Required To play the media you will need to either update your browser to a recent version or update your Flash plugin. Loreena McKennitt. World 1987. free to Loreena McKennitt To Drive the Cold Winter Away In Praise of Christmas, The Seasons and more. 10 tracks 45:29. Do you know any background info about this album Start the wiki. Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM OM born February 17, 1957 in Morden, Manitoba, Canada is a Canadian musician, composer, harpist, accordionist, and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. She is self-managed, self-produced and head of her own record label - Quinlan Road. SNOW 5:35 Music by Loreena McKennitt, lyrics by Archibald Lampman. White are the far-off plains, and white The fading forests grow The wind dies out along the height And denser still the snow, A gathering weight on roof and tree Falls down scarce audibly. The road before me smooths and fills Apace, and all about The fences dwindle, and the hills Are blotted slowly out The naked trees loom spectrally Into the dim white sky. Then all is silent and the snow falls Settling soft and slow The evening deepens and the grey Folds closer earth and sky The world seems shrouded, far away. Its noises sleep, and I as secret as Yon buried stream plod dumbly on and dream. Loreena McKennitt's primary instrument is the harp, but her primary technique is to take a traditional folk song and supersize it with strings, modern rhythms, and lush orchestration. It's a style that works ideally with this material. This is, in short, my favorite ChristmasWinter album ever. McKennitt's vocals on this are beautiful, ethereal, haunting, absolutely perfect. Some of the best songs include In Praise of ChristmasTo Drive the Cold Winter Away, Snow, and Let all that are to Mirth Inclined, the last of which will send chills down your spine as you listen to McKennit sing with haunting church bells tolling in the background as the only accompaniment. Released 1987. To Drive the Cold Winter Away Tracklist. In Praise Of Christmas Lyrics. The Seasons Lyrics. The King Lyrics. Banquet Hall Lyrics