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Maybe This Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Various Artists

Release Date December 02, 2002
We love this disk and are already playing it in preparation for this christmas. It is a refreshing change from the usual pap. The sequals are also (but not quite as) good.

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Verve Remixed Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Various Artists

Release Date September 23, 2008
We love this disk and are already playing it in preparation for this christmas. It is a refreshing change from the usual pap. The sequals are also (but not quite as) good.

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A Very Special Christmas Vol.3

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Various Artists

Release Date December 01, 1997
I was very impressed by the first two volumes in the series but this volume, while it has some great tracks, does not match those two although I like this set better now than when I first bought it some years ago.

The highlights for me are I saw three ships (Sting), Blue Christmas (Sheryl Crow), Christmas (Blues traveller), a Gallic version of Silent night (Enya), Santa Claus is back in town (Jonny Lang), Christmas is now drawing near at hand (Steve Winwood) and O holy night (Tracy Chapman). Most of the other tracks are OK but the version of Santa baby included here is definitely not my kind of music. I much prefer Madonna's version, to be found on the first volume in the series, or the original Eartha Kitt version from the fifties.

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Praetorius: Mass (Lutheran Mass for Christmas Morning) /Gabrieli Consort & Players · McCreesh

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Samuel Scheidt, Johann Hermann Schein

Release Date November 01, 1994
I must confess that this recording is not entirely to my personal taste, but it would be churlish to deny it a five star rating. As an atheist, I still get intense pleasure listening to the mass as an art form rather than as an act of worship. The Gabrieli Consort, here, offer a recreation of how a Lutheran mass might have sounded in the early-17th century. I have no doubts about the authenticity or quality of their production, it's just that the piece, itself, is not entirely to my taste.

Born in Kreuzberg, Michael Schultheiss (1571-1621) was the son of a Lutheran pastor, a man, indeed who had been a student of Luther himself - he took the name Praetorius as a Latinisation of his surname (it means 'mayor'). Praetorius began his career ... Read More:

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Simply Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Various Artists

Release Date September 12, 2005
This is a really good Christmas album and is lovely to listen to wrapping up presents, and background music for any Christmas parties leading up to Christmas. I'm going to like listening to this this December. I've had Mariah's Christmas album on every year since it was released years ago. That is still a good one, just felt like a few more songs which this one provides.

There are 4 CD's with a variety of carols and tunes including a kids album.

Definately worth the money.

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Children's Christmas Carols and Songs

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Various Artists

Release Date November 05, 1996
This is a really good Christmas album and is lovely to listen to wrapping up presents, and background music for any Christmas parties leading up to Christmas. I'm going to like listening to this this December. I've had Mariah's Christmas album on every year since it was released years ago. That is still a good one, just felt like a few more songs which this one provides.

There are 4 CD's with a variety of carols and tunes including a kids album.

Definately worth the money.

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The Christmas Collection

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Amy Grant

Release Date September 30, 2008
My first thought when I heard Amy Grant was releasing a best of Christmas CD was "Why?" But I quickly thought about the artists who release best of's after three regular releases. And Amy's oldest Christmas release was in 1983, so my question became "Why not?" And, suddenly, I found myself first in line to buy it the day it came out.

Now keep in mind that I love Amy's first two Christmas releases and enjoy the third. There was no way I was seriously going to miss this.

The CD is made up of 18 tracks, four of which are new. The disc opens with "Jingle Bells." Now this isn't your normal version but the version made famous by Barbra Streisand on her first Christmas album 40 years ago. People seem to fall into either the love it or hate ... Read More:

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Essential Now Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Various Artists

Release Date September 23, 2008
My first thought when I heard Amy Grant was releasing a best of Christmas CD was "Why?" But I quickly thought about the artists who release best of's after three regular releases. And Amy's oldest Christmas release was in 1983, so my question became "Why not?" And, suddenly, I found myself first in line to buy it the day it came out.

Now keep in mind that I love Amy's first two Christmas releases and enjoy the third. There was no way I was seriously going to miss this.

The CD is made up of 18 tracks, four of which are new. The disc opens with "Jingle Bells." Now this isn't your normal version but the version made famous by Barbra Streisand on her first Christmas album 40 years ago. People seem to fall into either the love it or hate ... Read More:

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Christmas Memories

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Foster & Allen

Release Date October 06, 2008
My first thought when I heard Amy Grant was releasing a best of Christmas CD was "Why?" But I quickly thought about the artists who release best of's after three regular releases. And Amy's oldest Christmas release was in 1983, so my question became "Why not?" And, suddenly, I found myself first in line to buy it the day it came out.

Now keep in mind that I love Amy's first two Christmas releases and enjoy the third. There was no way I was seriously going to miss this.

The CD is made up of 18 tracks, four of which are new. The disc opens with "Jingle Bells." Now this isn't your normal version but the version made famous by Barbra Streisand on her first Christmas album 40 years ago. People seem to fall into either the love it or hate ... Read More:

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An Oscar Peterson Christmas

CD-Charts > Music > Classical
by: Oscar Peterson

Release Date April 04, 2001
The intention is clear from the start - Oscar and his group (including a very 'Disney' string section) set out to make a gorgeous set of background music for Christmas. However, in that classic Peterson way, you realise that you cannot ignore what is coming out of the speakers - sheer sweet-talking brilliance that cheers up any cold Christmas day. Some people will say that it is meaningless music, and in a sense they are right, but they are missing the point. It is a true conquest of fun.