A Gala Christmas in Vienna Placido Domingo and Sarah Brightman stick to traditional fare like "Deck the Halls" and European carols, all is bright", and cautioned "but when Domingo bellows over Trevor Horn's bombastic "The Closing of the Year," and Brightman attempts to rock on "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," they're just schlockin' around the Christmas tree." A Gala Christmas in Vienna A Gala Christmas in Vienna or Christmas in Vienna V is a DVD released in 1998. Plácido Domingo, Sarah Brightman, Helmut Lotti and Riccardo Cocciante perform traditional, European and American Christmas songs in Vienna, Austria. The orchestra was the Vienna Symphony, conducted
Weihnachtsbaum (Liszt) Fürstner, Berlin. No. 2, "O heilige Nacht!", was revised in 1881 for tenor solo, female chorus and organ or harmonium (S. 49). The solo piano version of No. 7. "Schlummerlied". was revised 1879-81 (S. 186/7a) and this was published by Schirmer, New York, in 1950. The manuscript came into the possession of Liszt's American student Carl Lachmund (1857-1928); it was discovered among a sheaf of assorted papers given to him by Liszt's valet. Lachmund was not aware that it belonged to "Weihnachtsbaum" specifically; he says in the foreword: "The Roman VII over the title would indicate that the piece might