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My Kind of Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Christina Aguilera

Release Date October 30, 2006
I love this, its my favorite holiday album. This album is modern yet you still feel there are traditional elements in this album. I bought this album a year ago and i'm glad i did because it still sounds just as fresh.

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Home for Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Dolly Parton

Release Date October 13, 2008
Any initial disappointment I felt when I discovered that this album was filled was standards didn't last long. The songs have all been covered many times before – some more than others, though Dolly was careful not to repeat any of the songs that appeared on her first Christmas offering, Once upon a Christmas, which she recorded with Kenny Rogers.

Dolly's exuberant personality makes itself evident on such joyous songs as Jingle bells, which never sounded so much fun. I really want to jingle thos bells when I hear Dolly sing that song. With a country church congregation on First Noel and Joy to the world, and a children's chorus on Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer and Santa Claus is coming to town, Dolly brings many elements to ... Read More:

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Celtic Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Various Artists

Release Date October 30, 2000
A little gem of a cd; there are quite a few songs that I had never heard before which makes it a change from the normal Christmas carol compilations - though for all I know they may be Celtic (or Irish) standards.
The instrumentation, as one might expect from the title, includes harps, pipes whistles and guitars as well as strings and is very nicely done; as someone else has remarked the effect is otherworldly in parts, and in others I find it attractively 'ancient'.
I would thoroughly recommend this cd as something to listen to in it's own right or as background music whilst putting the tree up, which I suspect is what most people would want it for.
An absolute snip at the price too !!

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The Christmas Tree Ship

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: I Like Trains

Release Date November 24, 2008
A little gem of a cd; there are quite a few songs that I had never heard before which makes it a change from the normal Christmas carol compilations - though for all I know they may be Celtic (or Irish) standards.
The instrumentation, as one might expect from the title, includes harps, pipes whistles and guitars as well as strings and is very nicely done; as someone else has remarked the effect is otherworldly in parts, and in others I find it attractively 'ancient'.
I would thoroughly recommend this cd as something to listen to in it's own right or as background music whilst putting the tree up, which I suspect is what most people would want it for.
An absolute snip at the price too !!

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The Greatest Christmas Songs

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Perry Como

Release Date August 24, 1999
A little gem of a cd; there are quite a few songs that I had never heard before which makes it a change from the normal Christmas carol compilations - though for all I know they may be Celtic (or Irish) standards.
The instrumentation, as one might expect from the title, includes harps, pipes whistles and guitars as well as strings and is very nicely done; as someone else has remarked the effect is otherworldly in parts, and in others I find it attractively 'ancient'.
I would thoroughly recommend this cd as something to listen to in it's own right or as background music whilst putting the tree up, which I suspect is what most people would want it for.
An absolute snip at the price too !!

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Vaughan Williams - Hodie; Fantasia on Christmas Carols

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Gadd

Release Date October 29, 2007
This is a great CD. I had always thought that Hodie, despite great moments of inspiration (such as the marvellously inspiriting conclusion)was a rather inferior score to earlier choral scores like Sancta Civitas and Dona Nobis Pacem, but Hilary Davan Wetton's new Naxos (super-budget) version has forced me to revise my earlier view. I still believe that the beautiful Sancta Civitas is Vaughan Williams's choral masterpiece ( although Dona Nobis Pacem and the late, neglected Epithalamion are, respectively, works of great power and beauty) but Hodie comes across as a much greater score in this recording. The main reason for this, I think, is because the conductor takes many crucial sections at a considerably slower tempo than David Willcocks in ... Read More:

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The Christmas Album Vol.1

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Neil Diamond

Release Date October 13, 2008
For years I had been searching for the perfect Xmas CD to have playing in the background whilst the family are busy enjoying the day.............whether it be helping preparing the lunch, dressing the tree, entertaining friends and family with drinks and nibbles or simply sitting in front of an open fire on Xmas Eve watching the flickering flames in the dim of the evening.

I didn't want a stodgy old production from years ago; neither did I necessarily want an upbeat collection of dance floor fillers like Slade etc. No, I wanted a combination of traditional with a mix of heart-warming songs that reflect both my childhood and current musical tastes (I'm 50).

I had no advance notice that this was coming out at the time ... Read More:

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Hercule Poirot's Christmas: BBC Radio 4 Full-cast Dramatisation (BBC Radio Collection)

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Agatha Christie, Michael Bakewell

Release Date November 07, 2005
Nasty-pasty Simeon Lee, a cackling old ogre, gathers his family around him on Christmas Eve to poke them with a stick. Before long nasty Mr Lee is lying on his hearth rug with his throat viciously slit from ear to ear. Whodunnit? Was it one of his 'namby-pamby' sons? One of their wives? His Spanish grand-daughter, Pilar? One of the servants? Or was it the unexpected guest, Mr Farr? Hercule Poirot is close by and on hand to assist Superintendent Sugden to investigate the crime.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas is from Agatha Christie's classic period and is one of her famous family / house-party mysteries. To most people this is a great recommendation, however these housebound mysteries are not among my favourites - they usually come across ... Read More:

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101 Christmas Carols and Songs

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Various Artists

Release Date November 17, 2008
Nasty-pasty Simeon Lee, a cackling old ogre, gathers his family around him on Christmas Eve to poke them with a stick. Before long nasty Mr Lee is lying on his hearth rug with his throat viciously slit from ear to ear. Whodunnit? Was it one of his 'namby-pamby' sons? One of their wives? His Spanish grand-daughter, Pilar? One of the servants? Or was it the unexpected guest, Mr Farr? Hercule Poirot is close by and on hand to assist Superintendent Sugden to investigate the crime.

Hercule Poirot's Christmas is from Agatha Christie's classic period and is one of her famous family / house-party mysteries. To most people this is a great recommendation, however these housebound mysteries are not among my favourites - they usually come across ... Read More:

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Celtic Woman - A New Journey [2002]

CD-Charts > Music > Christmas Music
by: Celtic Woman

Release Date June 04, 2007
This is a beautiful concert with the lit castle as the background. There is the addition of Hayley Westenra - a Kiwi who sings the best version of "Are you going to Scarborough Fair" that I have ever heard. The other singers also sing beautifully (Lisa Kelly is my favourite). Again, their version of Enya's "Orinocco Flow" is better than what Enya can producxe because it is played with real instruments and a beautiful backing choir.
Like their first DVD, it is great and I hope that they will make many more because I will buy them all.