Winds of Christmas, Vol. 2

1. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing

2. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear

3. Angels We Have Heard on High

4. Christmas Bolero

5. Jingle Bells

6. Holly and the Ivy

7. Carole of the Birds

8. O Holy Night

9. Ode to Joy

10. What Child Is This?

11. Joy of Christmas

12. Away in a Manger

13. Joy to the World

14. Virgin Upspotted

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Great Collection
A remarkable anthology
High-quality, marvelously varied intro to baroque music

Essential Baroque

Manufacturer: Decca
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B00006L3IL
Release Date: 2002-10-08

Customer Reviews:

Great Collection.......2007-01-19

Essential Baroque is a great collection, especially for the price. It has two CDs packd full of the best Baroque music. Like most Baroque collections, it has the best of some of the better known artists like Handel, Bach, and Vivaldi. However, unlike most other collections, it excels in adding some good pieces from lesser known artists from the period.

A remarkable anthology.......2005-09-08

A fine selection of pieces excerpted from the chamber ensemble, solo and opera repertory. Some recordings, though from paramount artists, are elderly; yet, performers are anyway flawless. It may be objected that a few of Vivaldi's masterpieces were disregarded.

High-quality, marvelously varied intro to baroque music.......2003-12-13

I am buying this as the perfect gift for Russian and Chinese scientist friends. They have knowledge of classical music but perhaps not much about baroque music, which achieved special popularity in the U.S. during the 1970's and 1980's. Russians seem to have more familiarity with romantic classical music, while the more recently arrived Asian classical buffs have special affinity to the "Classical" classical period and the great 19th Century romantics. How can a baroque sampler be better than with a span of music ranging from solo harpsichord to full orchestra and chorus, and from the very familiar (Pachelbel Canon and Hallelujah Chorus from Handel's Messiah) to a trio sonata by Zelenka and the Dardanus Overture by Rameau. Not only that, but both the period instrument and living tradition baroque styles are represented by noted performers (e.g. Trevor Pinnock and Christopher Hogwood; and Henryk Szeryng, Andras Schiff, Pepe Romero, and Alicia de Larrocha, respectively). The producers were careful enough to state that the "Albinoni Adagio in g minor" was actually composed by Remo Giazotto - though in fact Giazotto did use a fragment of Albinoni. This is definitely not a supermarket special, but a box of choice musical bonbons.

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Superior Christmas Music of the New Age Variety

Winds of Christmas, Vol. 2
Shardad
Manufacturer: Serenity Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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ASIN: B000001HYN
Release Date: 1996-08-20

Tracks:

Hark! The Herald Angels Sing
It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
Angels We Have Heard On High
Christmas Bolero
Jingle Bells
Holly And The Ivy
Carole Of The Birds
Oh Holy Night
Ode To Joy
What Child Is This
Joy Of Christmas
Away In A Manager
Joy To The World
The Virgin Unspotted

Customer Reviews:

Superior Christmas Music of the New Age Variety.......2007-01-12

Every year for 20 years, I have put together an anthology of Christmas music (at first on tape, now on CD) as gifts to friends and family. For the 2006 collection, I purchased a number of discs through Amazon, including both volumes of Shardad's "Winds of Christmas." Many recipients of this year's collection commented that it was the best ever, partly because of the "new" selections from these two discs. While not all arrangements are winners, both are full discs and well worth adding to the Christmas library of anyone with a taste for New Age arrangements (such as those by David Arkenstone or Mannheim Steamroller).