Christmas Songs

1. Weihnachtslieder for voice & piano, Op 8
   Composed by Peter Cornelius
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
2. Krippenlieder (Songs of the Crib), for voice & piano, Op. 49
   Composed by Joseph Haas
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
3. Maria Wiegenlied (Mary's Lullaby: "Maria sitzt am Rosenhag"), song for voice & piano (or orchestra), Op. 76/52
   Composed by Max Reger
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
4. Uns ist geboren ein Kindelein, for voice & piano (or harmonium or organ), Op. 137/3
   Composed by Max Reger
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
5. Christkindleins Wiegenlied ("Laßt uns das Kindlein wiegen"), for voice & piano (or harmonium or organ), Op. 137/10
   Composed by Max Reger
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
6. Maria am Rosenstrauch ("Maria sitz am Rosenbusch"), for voice & piano, Op. 142/3
   Composed by Max Reger
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
7. Der König aus dem Morgenland ("Ich bin der König"), song for voice & piano, Op. 76/60
   Composed by Max Reger
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
8. Nun wandre, Maria, song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
   Composed by Hugo Wolf
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
9. Führ mich, Kind, nach Bethlehem, song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
   Composed by Hugo Wolf
   with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
   
   
10. Ach, des Knaben Augen, song for voice & piano (Spanisches Liederbuch)
    Composed by Hugo Wolf
    with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
    
    
11. Auf ein altes Bild ("In grüner Landschaft Sommerflor"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
    Composed by Hugo Wolf
    with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
    
    
12. Schlafendes Jesuskind ("Sohn der Jungfrau"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
    Composed by Hugo Wolf
    with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
    
    
13. Zum neuen Jahr ("Wie heimlicher Weise"), song for voice & piano (Möricke Lieder)
    Composed by Hugo Wolf
    with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
    
    
14. Epiphanias ("Die Heiligen drei König'"), song for voice & piano (Goethe Lieder)
    Composed by Hugo Wolf
    with Norman Shetler, Peter Schreier
    
    

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Average customer rating: Great cd set I'd rather just the first 10 years, thanks A great buy, you'll play this over and over. An All-Round Pleaser Childhood Renewed

Songs from the Street: 35 Years of Music Sesame Street Manufacturer: Sony Wonder (Audio) ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Sesame Street | Children's Music | Styles | Music Educational | Children's Music | Styles | Music Sing-A-Longs | Children's Music | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Children's Music | Box Sets | Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: Muppet Show: Music Mayhem & More - 25th Anniv Coll Sesame Street - Old School, Vol. 1 (1969-1974) Kids Favorite Songs Bert & Ernie's Greatest Hits Sesame Street: Platinum Too ASIN: B0000C05MP Release Date: 2003-09-02

Tracks:

1. Sesame Street Theme - The Kids
2. ABC - DEF - GHI - Big Bird
3. Bein' Green - Kermit the Frog
4. Sing - The Kids
5. Five Songs - The Kids
6. Five People in My Family - The Anything Muppets
7. People in the Neighborhood - Bob and the Anything Muppets
8. Henson King of the Eight - Jim Henson
9. Hi De Ho Man - Cab Calloway and the Two - Headed Monster
10. How Do You Do - Lena Horne
11. Over, Under, Around and Through - Grover
12. Ladybugs Picnic
13. Somebody Come and Play - The Kids
14. Jellyman Kelly - James Taylor and the Kids
15. Just the Way You Are - Billy Joel and Oscar the Grouch
16. Everybody Sleeps - Joe Raposo
17. Rubber Duckie - Ernie
18. Doin ' the Pidgeon - Bert
19. Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard - Paul Simon and the Kids
20. Sweet - A Little Baby Boy - Pete Seeger and the Kids
21. 1-2 - 3 Sesame Street - Stevie Wonder
22. Pinball Number Count - - The Pointer Sisters
23. I' ve Got Two - Big Bird. Oscar the Grouch, Mr. Hooper and Everybody
24. I Love Trash - Oscar the Grouch
25. Nasty Dan - Johnny Cash and Oscar the Grouch
26. Sing After Me - Madeline Kahn and Grover
27. Captain Vegetable - Captian Vegetable with Eddie and Andy
28. African Alphabet - Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Kermit the Frog.
29. B.B. King - B.B. King with Bert, Benny Rabbit, Big Bird and Baby Bear
30. C is for Cookie - Cookie Monster
31. Kiko and the Lavender Moon (Elmo and the Lavender Moon) - Los Lobos
32. Sweet in the Mornin' (Tweet in the Mornin') - Bobby Mc Ferrin with the Birds
33. Small People - Ziggy Marley and the Melody Makers with Prairie Dawn and Big Bird
34. Imagination - Ernie with Big Bird and the Cast
35. From Your Head - Diane Schuur with Elmo
36. What's the Name of that Song? - The Cast
37. The Batty Bat - The Count with Ftatateeta and the Bats
38. Mah Na Mah Na - Mah Na Mah Na
39. Little Things - Tony Bennettt with Lexine
40. One Small Voice - The Kids, Hoots the Owl, Prairie Dawn
41. I Don't Want to Live on the Moon - Aaron Neville and Ernie
42. This Frog - Kermit the Frog
43. I Love Trash - Steven Tyler
44. Two Princes - Spin Doctors with Zoe, Elmo and Telly
45. Like the way I do (Like the way U Does) - Melissa Etheridge
46. But I like You - Bert and Ernie
47. Tu Me Gustas (I like you) - Luis and Elmo
48. Mambo I,I,I, - Gloria Estefan
49. Monster in the Mirror - Grover
50. Hold my Hand - Hootie & the Blowfish with Elmo and the Kids
51. I'm Talkin' Love - Trisha Yearwood and Herry Monster
52. We are the Earthlings - A Boyand the Anything Muppets
53. Happy to Meet You - Celine Dion with Herry Monster, Elmo and Big Bird
54. Shiny Happy People (Furry Happy Monsters) - REM and Muppet Rocker
55. Believe in Yourself - *NSYNC
56. A New Way to Walk - Destiny's Child with Elmo, Groverand Zoe
57. Elmo's Song - Elmo, Big Bird and Snuffleupagus
58. Slide (Pride) - Goo Goo Dolls and Elmo
59. Sing - Dixie Chicks
60. Just Happy To Be Me - Fugees
61. Put Down The Duckie - Ernie and Hoots the Owl
62. Everybody Be Yo'Self - Keb' Mo' and the Kids
63. Sesame Street Theme Remix - Ursula 1000

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Songs from the Street, the boxed set that stretches back to "Sesame Street's" 1969 debut, is the kids' record of the year, if not the decade: Big Bird and the gang might've pulled it off themselves--for a crew of fix-it store workers, shopkeeps, and goofball monsters, the talent quotient's off the charts--but when you've got this many names to drop, they've got to land somewhere. What impresses most in three discs is the lack of a single thud. Cab Calloway, Pete Seeger, and James Taylor mosey in on disc one; Johnny Cash, BB King, and Tony Bennett take seats on the stoop for disc two; and the Dixie Chicks, Gloria Estefan, and R.E.M. raise the brownstone roof on disc three--and that's leaving out stars like Lena Horne, Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, and Trisha Yearwood. When it comes to inspiring preschoolers and their parents to sing the praises of rubber duckies, bein' green, and the people in their neighborhood; "The Street" gets busy. --Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

Great cd set.......2007-07-30

This set of 3 CD's had a great mix of classic and contempary Sesame Street songs.

I'd rather just the first 10 years, thanks.......2007-05-26

About half the songs are the original television versions. But the liner notes for the other half list them as being "from" other COMPILATIONS released in the 1990s.
Nowhere is it stated whether those compilations used the original versions or re-recordings, so who knows? Even the TITLE theme is not the original (It might be the version they use nowadays, but it's not the version most people know from the 70s).
Sesame should have just used the original TV versions of all tracks as that's what collectors of vintage material would be looking for (and paying quite a lot for).
They also should have focused more on the early years when the show was the most innovative. And as music was a major element, I'm sure there's a lot more material that could have been used, particularly those odd demonstrational songs about the number 5 or the letter R. Instead they've focused on the celebrity guests, most of whom don't really add much value.
I personally hoped there'd be that funky counting to ten song that featured on almost every episode (not the Pinball one, which I love too).
Disappointing, but until a better option comes along, this will have to do.

A great buy, you'll play this over and over........2007-03-15

I bought this when my daughter was born, and two years later she still asks for them to be played. The set contains three CDs, on which are collected famous songs, and ditties from the Sesame Street show...favorites like C is for Cookie, Healthy, Happy Monsters performed by famous groups like REM and more. The songs are not just kid friendly, adults will enjoy the refreshing take on some old favorites too:)

An All-Round Pleaser.......2007-02-15

I have always loved the music from Sesame Street, and as I have gotten older I have found that the next generation loves it just as much as I have, whether it be the older or newer songs. Since I bought this album, I have had it regularly playing at my sons' request. Funnily enough, anyone who walks in to our house smiles when they hear the music, ask what the album is, then sit back and enjoy it all - regardless of whether they have ever watched Sesame Street or not. Furry and real voices have universal appeal whatever the age of the listener! A beautiful album.

Childhood Renewed.......2007-01-09

If you grew up on Sesame Street - or just want some music for kids that isn't annoying - this is the box set for you! The songs are clever, amusing, lively, and educational. We bought it for ourselves as a trip down memory lane before our son was born - and since then it has been our favorite baby shower or first birthday gift! Everyone who has it loves it!

Average customer rating: Christmas Songs YeeHaa. Merry Christmas. If you like Diana Krall you'll probably hate this review. Have Diana Krall over for the holidays. Christmas Songs/Diana Krall

Christmas Songs Diana Krall , and Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra Manufacturer: Verve ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Canada | North America | International | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Swing General | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Vocal Jazz General | Vocal Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Traditional Vocal Pop | Broadway & Vocalists | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Verve | Verve Music Group | Specialty Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: From This Moment On Thanks For The Memory...The Great American Songbook IV The Girl In The Other Room The Christmas Collection Diana Krall - Live at the Montreal Jazz Festival ASIN: B000B7BRMM Release Date: 2005-11-01

Tracks:

1. Jingle Bells
2. Let It Snow
3. The Christmas Song
4. Winter Wonderland
5. I'll Be Home For Christmas
6. Christmas Time Is Here
7. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
8. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
9. White Christmas
10. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
11. Sleigh Ride
12. Count Your Blessings Instead Of Sheep

Amazon.com

As the song goes, "Merry Christmas" has already "been said many times, many ways." Diana Krall's Christmas Songs is a worthy--though not particularly unique--addition to the holiday catalog. On it, she excels with an approach mastered long ago: elegant delivery that gives extra polish to a very familiar lineup. Some might find her style frosty at times, but that will come as a relief to those who want their carolers to cut through some of the holiday treacle and create a festive, yet grown-up vibe. And Krall does show off her playful side with little, personal touches. In "Winter Wonderland" she promises to "frolic and play the Canadian way," which should draw smiles from her native land. (That'll mean toasting the holiday with Molson, eh?) Elsewhere, she ends "Jingle Bells" with the girlishly giddy statement, "I'm just crazy about horses." Well…can't argue with that. --Leah Weathersby

Customer Reviews:

Christmas Songs.......2007-05-13

The product is what I expected. It arrived on time and in the condition advertised.

YeeHaa. Merry Christmas........2007-02-22

Hot babe. Good Jazz.

Helluva voice.

Nice take on some well-worn standards.

This and the Vince Guarldi Charlie Brown Christmas album are the only two Christmas albums that should be given to everybody who ever bought a CD player, Ipod, whatever.

Nice dress.

Elvis Costello (Mr. Diana Krall) better thank God every day.

I proudly listen to this album at non-Christmas times of the year, by the way. When it plays at work, someone almost always stops and says "Who is THAT?"; never "Why are you listening to Christmas music in June?". That's the power of the voice and arrangements we're dealing with, here.

Thank you for coming into my life, if only as a beautiful voice. And what a voice!

If you like Diana Krall you'll probably hate this review........2007-01-26

I love Diana Krall's voice, style, the music she chooses to record, and the polish of her music. I have all her CDs and they're great. So, when I got this CD at Christmas 2005 I was really disappointed. Look, it's OK, I guess, but not up to her usual standards. There's no enthusiasm here (except for the false enthusiasm of her fingernail-on-chalkboard tittering "I'm just crazy 'bout hooorses").

Rather than write it off as just average I decided to give it a whirl again for Christmas '06, and had the same reaction. Guys might like this CD for her recumbent "come hither and unwrap THIS present" look and posture on the CD packaging, but there's little to come hither for inside.

Have Diana Krall over for the holidays. .......2007-01-21

If your into Diana Krall and your into Christmas, Then this CD is a MUST! It's everything you want in your Jazz Christmas collection.

Christmas Songs/Diana Krall.......2007-01-19

Good CD -- only thing I didn't care for was "scat" on a couple of songs --

Average customer rating: So so music Get behind me, Santa! A New Look At An Old Holiday Highly recommend Santa Sufjan

Songs for Christmas Sufjan Stevens Manufacturer: Asthmatic Kitty ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music Chamber Pop | Indie & Lo-Fi | Alternative Rock | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: The Crane Wife Ys Orphans [Fold-out Digipak with 24-page booklet] Return to Cookie Mountain (with Bonus Tracks) The Good, the Bad & the Queen ASIN: B000HLDF0O Release Date: 2006-11-21

Tracks:

1. Silent Night
2. O Come O Come Emmanuel
3. We're Goin' To the Country!
4. Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming
5. It's Christmas! Let's Be Glad!
6. Holy Holy, etc.
7. Amazing Grace

Tracks:

1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Put the Lights on the Tree
3. Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
4. I Saw Three Ships
5. Only at Christmas Time
6. Once in Royal David's City
7. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing!
8. What Child Is This Anyway?
9. Bring A Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

Tracks:

1. O Come, O Come Emmanuel
2. Come on! Let's Boogey to the Elf Dance!
3. We Three Kings
4. O Holy Night
5. That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!
6. Ding! Dong!
7. All the King's Horns
8. The Friendly Beasts

Tracks:

1. The Little Drummer Boy
2. Away In A Manger
3. Hey Guys! It's Christmas Time!
4. The First Noel
5. Did I Make You Cry On Christmas Day? (Well, You Deserved It!)
6. The Incarnation
7. Joy To The World

Tracks:

1. Once in Royal David's City
2. Get Behind Me, Santa!
3. Jingle Bells
4. Christmas in July
5. Lo! How A Rose E'er Blooming
6. Jupiter Winter
7. Sister Winter
8. O Come O Come Emmanuel
9. Star of Wonder
10. Holy, Holy, Holy
11. The Winter Solstice

Amazon.com

Every year it's an issue: how does one stomach the onset of holiday music? With an endless stream of overplayed pop stars stirring what Sufjan Stevens calls "That Creepy Christmas Feeling," how does one navigate the sound of the season? Back in 2001, Stevens began making annual EPs of traditional carols and songs mixed with his own holiday-themed tunes. With 2006 and Volume 5, he's compiled a perfect gift for the Christmas-inclined indie rockster: all five EPs in one box, separately slipcased, plus a booklet filled with lyric sheets, chord charts, a Rick Moody essay, and more. Yes, Stevens knows that "Jingle Bells" features him playing (as he notes) "insipid piano," but he also writes gorgeous arrangements. Check out the three versions of "O Come O Come Emmanuel"; each aches. And "O Holy Night" from Volume 3 is lo-fi genius, never mind anyone's resistance to theology; it's a time-stopper. Stevens's own tunes are unmistakably his, hushed vocals highlighting a unique mix of whimsy and yearning--much like the justly-lauded Illinois and Michigan. In the end of the liner essay, Stevens writes that the Christmas story is about love, and on that note, he proclaims that these songs and the "Creepy Christmas Feeling" prompt "a transformation of the heart" for him and bring out affection and reflection. Isn't that a great holiday vibe? --Andrew Bartlett

Album Description

In December 2001, Sufjan set out to create a Christmas gift for his friends and family. The result was a seven-song recording that he called "Noel Vol. 1". Over the next several years, he created new EPs to add to the collection. This 5-CD box set includes all five volumes, plus a 42-page booklet with an original Christmas essay by acclaimed American novelist Ricky Moody, two essays, a short story by Stevens, a holiday sticker, chord charts, lyrics, comic strip, family portrait poster, photos, and an animated video.

Customer Reviews:

So so music.......2007-05-16

I am not a Sufjan Stevens fan. The arrangements are good enough and I think being a Christmas CD, the bar for success if fairly low. I think they just crossed that bar. On complaint about the packaging is that all the songs on the five CDs could easily have been fit on 3 CDs so you end up switching CDs more often than necessary. I guess that's OK if you have a carousel player.

Get behind me, Santa!.......2007-02-06

I love Christmas music and I love Sufjan Stevens. When I saw that Sufjan had his own FIVE CD Christmas album, I bought it without hearing so much as a single track, knowing that whether the album was a success or failure, at least it would be unlike any other Christmas CD I own. Of course Santa Sufjan did not let me down.

First of all, the packaging and the graphic design of this mini box-set of Christmas CD's is awesome--It's worth buying just for the packaging. It includes a free set of stickers, a comic, a Stevens family Christmas portrait, and the most extensive liner notes in recording history, including some excellent Christmas essays and artwork. I was having so much fun with all that, it was a while before I even listened to the first CD of the set!

The five CD's are a collection of non-commercial CD-R's that Sufjan would make for friends and family each Christmas. The first four CD's were not intended to be sold or marketed, and are made up of mostly simple recordings of classic carols and many original Christmas songs. I believe the fifth disk was the only one created with the knowledge that it would be sold.

Since these CD's were made from the heart, and were certainly not an attempt to milk the Christmas music market, one is going to hear songs done in a very simple, rugged and direct manner, with warts and all. Phil Spector's "wall-of-sound" this is not. Rather, it is a humble, contrite attempt at honoring Christmas and Christ with song. Sufjan Stevens channeling the Little Drummer Boy, in a very literal sense, though there are a few songs that are more Spector than Simon & Garfunkel.

In my vast collection of Christmas CD's, numbering well over 50 disks, I found that there is one particular style that really stands out when employed, and that is when an artist chooses to focus on Christmas carols rather than the various secular holiday songs, and then does a simple, straightforward interpretation of these carols, with little to no embellishment. One of the early examples of this is Mitch Miller's "Christmas--Sing Along with Mitch." That album is filled with classic carols, minimal orchestration, and brilliant, lively voices. It works because Mitch wisely leaves the carols alone, staying away from cutesy production tricks, and allows the beauty of the songs to speak for themselves. No doubt Mitch Miller's album was in Sufjan sites when creating this box set, complete with the tongue-in-cheek "SINGALONG in Stereo" blurb on the front of the box.

Like the Mitch Miller album, Sufjan also chooses to stay mainly with carols, rather than do another rendition of "White Christmas" or "Santa Clause is Coming to Town." (However, we do get a Santa Sufjan original: "Get Behind Me Santa!") Like Mitch, his singing of the carols is fairly straight forward, with little fluff or ornamentation--he leaves that for the packaging. But unlike Mitch, Sufjan is quite creative with the musical accompaniment, giving carols a sound that is very earthy and simple. There is a definite folk/blue grass interpretation which is a real pleasure to listen to; it's the polar opposite the big band/swing/jazz style of most secular Christmas albums.

Yet there is more than just carols on this CD, Sufjan gives us many of his own original Christmas songs, which are neither secular nor sacred, but somehow occupy a space in between. They are spiritual without being King James, and they are secular without being profane. Singing about K-Mart, Santa and Jesus in the same tune is something only Sufjan could pull off. While there are some interesting songs in Sufjan's originals, I much prefer his folksy interpretations of the classic carols.

Then there are those carols in which we only get a simple, pleasing instrumental number, no voices or singing, just like the neat little instrumentals spread around Sufjan's 'Illnois' album. They are a wonderful little treat, kind of the musical equivalent of an occasional snack of a Christmas cookie. Speaking of Illinois, there are a few songs, especially from the fourth and fifth disks that would have worked well on either the Illinois or Avalanche albums despite their Christmas theme.

Sadly, while not lacking in creativity or originality, "Songs for Christmas" just doesn't quite cut it as a classic Christmas album. It's refreshingly experimental and "ad hoc" sound will not endear many listeners, as there seems to be certain unspoken parameters as to how far you can push Christmas music interpretations. Outside of the Sufjan faithful, I doubt many folks will be shelving their Bing Crosby or Carpenters disks in favor of "Songs for Christmas." Still, the best thing on this album are Sufjan's beautiful, light renditions of ancient carols, and the album is worth purchasing for those alone.

In a recent Christmas essay, Garrison Keillor states that all one really needs to have a wonderful Christmas are the there "C's" -- carols, cookies, and candles. Well Sufjan Steven's Christmas box set will certainly meet and exceed the "carols" requirement. Maybe next year he'll throw in the cookies and candles, I wouldn't put it past him.

A New Look At An Old Holiday.......2007-01-30

Sufjan Stevens is an original and unique talent and his interpretations of old songs are different yet always respectful. His music is sometimes a bit odd, but always interesting and entertaining. I find it a very pleasant and relaxing blend of sounds.

Highly recommend.......2007-01-22

You get 5 CDs for basically the price of one, plus a lyrics and chord book and, for some reason, stickers. Can't beat that.

Santa Sufjan.......2007-01-22

Sufjan is the reigning king of... well... everything. There isnt an album of his I don't adore, he is a model human being, and everything he touches turns to gold. If you like Sufjan and you like Christmas, this is an album for you. If you don't like either, at least give it a listen.

Average customer rating: I hate to be rude, but . . . Outstanding Sacred Songs My favorite of Fleming's CDs so far Inspiring and beautiful

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Tracks:

1. Ave Maria
2. Jesu bleibet meine Freude
3. Dank sei dir, Herr
4. Ave Maria, D839
5. Laudamus te
6. Panis Angelicus
7. Air: "He shall feed his Flock"
8. Simple Song
9. Pie Jesu
10. Domine Deus
11. Laudate Dominum omnes gentes
12. Air: Rejoice greatly, o daughter of Zion
13. Abends will ich schlafen gehn
14. L'Adieu des bergers
15. Mariiegenlied, Op.76/52
16. Amazing Grace

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This lovely CD features Renée Fleming singing religious music in an unaffected, lovely manner. Many favorites are here: both the Bach/Gounod and Schubert versions of "Ave Maria," each offered with long breaths and soft tone; "Rejoice Greatly" from Messiah, delivered with virtuosity and gleaming sound, and "He Shall Feed His Flock," also from Messiah, sung in a smooth, laid-back manner. Bits of the Fauré Requiem and Poulenc Gloria are welcome, as is the gorgeous "L'Adieu des Bergers" from L'Enfance du Christ. In the prayer from Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Fleming is joined by the splendid Susan Graham, and a version of "Amazing Grace" features Mark O'Connor on violin. Two excerpts from Mozart's Mass in C Minor, pieces by Reger and Franck, and a few surprises round out this devotional CD. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews:

I hate to be rude, but . . ........2007-05-06

As stated earlier, I hate to be rude. However, Renee Fleming is not one of the greatest singers that I have heard. At many times, it sounds as if she is drunk, sliding into her notes at times. She also has a habit of hitting a note, and then quickly moving up or down for "dramatic effect". I'm sorry, but I just cannot listen to this. I know that everyone has their own opinions, and this is mine.
She is still a beautiful woman, and always will be. I have seen her concerts online, and she ISN'T bad, it's just that she doesn't have what I'm looking for in an opera singer!

Outstanding.......2007-03-07

I had seen this program on PBS and wanted the CD. Wonderful selection
of music and Renee Fleming's outstanding voice.

Sacred Songs.......2007-01-21

I always look for new presentations of Christmas songs. Rene Flemming did an excellent job in this recording. She has a super voice but sometimes the words of the song get lost in her singing style

My favorite of Fleming's CDs so far.......2006-12-07

There are only two cuts on this CD I tend to flip past (Amazing Grace and the Leonard Bernstein cut), but other than them, I totally love the rest! The cuts in German are divine! I could listen to this CD over and over again.

Inspiring and beautiful.......2006-07-20

I've always loved Renee Fleming's singing and this most recent album is just beautiful in every way. A rich voice, beautiful singing and a devout and magnificent artist. She makes even the most notorious evergreens come to life anew. I enjoyed it very much.

Average customer rating: Great Music Nice No words good instrumental Nice Cowboy CD The Greatest Cowboy Songs Ever

Greatest Cowboy Songs Ever Various Artists Manufacturer: Warner Bros / Wea ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Polkas | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music Cowboy | Country | Styles | Music General | Country | Styles | Music General | Traditional Country | Country | Styles | Music General | Compilations | Country | Styles | Music General | Bluegrass | Country | Styles | Music Polka | Eastern Europe | Europe | International | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Country General | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music CDs $7 - $10 | Bluegrass | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music All Bargain Titles | Bluegrass | Country | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music 4-for-3 Classical | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Country | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Cowboy Songs Songs Of The West, Vol. 4: Movie & Television Themes Cool Water (& 17 Timeless Favorites) Songs of the Old West Yodel the Cowboy Way ASIN: B0000062UU Release Date: 1998-03-10

Tracks:

1. Home On The Range
2. Buffalo Gals/Polly Wolly Doodle
3. Cattle Call
4. The Yellow Rose Of Texas
5. The Streets Of Laredo
6. Tumblin' Tumbleweeds
7. (Ghost) Riders In The Sky
8. San Antonio Rose
9. Don't Fence Me In
10. Happy Trails

Customer Reviews:

Great Music.......2007-07-03

It has a great variety of songs. They are well orchestrated and fun to listen, too.

Nice No words.......2007-02-15

I didn't realize that when I bought this that it was just instrumental. However my husband loves it wordless and all. If your looking for background music or relax music this is definitely the cd for you.

good instrumental.......2006-02-28

a very pleasant and somewhat haunting cd, easy listening at it's best for western songs,cd only has 10 songs on it but they are all very good and easily worth the price.This cd would be good to play for background music also.I would like to see more of these cd's.

Nice Cowboy CD.......2003-11-03

i really like the CD. it has nice instrumentals of many classic cowboy songs. the quality is very good too. the only downfall is that the CD is only about 30 minutes long so it is quite short. but other than that, i recommend it for anyone wanting to hear these nice classic songs.

The Greatest Cowboy Songs Ever.......2000-01-09

By far, the best instrumental of Western songs I have heard. Very well done! Truely does make you feel you are back in the Old West spiritually!

Average customer rating: FORGOTTEN (BY ME) BEAUTIES MENDELSSOHN'S 48 Portraits at exhibition! Second-tier Mendelssohn and Boringboim to boot Excellent!

Mendelssohn: Songs Without Words, etc. Manufacturer: Deutsche Grammophon ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Organ | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Mendelssohn | Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Deutsche Grammophon: Music | Specialty Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music More Titles at Least 20% Off | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music All Classical Music Blowout | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Mendelssohn, Felix | ( M ) | Composers, A-Z | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Opera & Vocal | Classical Music Blowout | Stores | Music Similar Items: Mendelssohn: Piano Concertos Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies; 7 Overtures Mendelssohn: Sonata for Piano; Prelude & Fugue; Variations Sérieuses; Rondo Capriccioso Songs Without Words Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes ASIN: B000001GYC Release Date: 1997-04-15

Tracks:

1. Lieder ohne Worte op. 19: No. 1 In E Major - Andante con moto
2. Lieder ohne Worte op. 19: No. 2 In A Minor - Andante espressivo
3. Lieder ohne Worte op. 19: No. 3 In A Major 'Hunting Song' - Molto allegro e vivace
4. Lieder ohne Worte op. 19: No. 4 in A Major - Moderato
5. Lieder ohne Worte op. 19: No. 5 In F Sharp Minor - Piano agitato
6. Lieder ohne Worte op. 19: No. 6 In G Minor 'Venetian Gondola Song' - Andante sostenuto
7. Lieder ohne Worte op. 30: No. 1 In E Flat Major - Andante espressivo
8. Lieder ohne Worte op. 30: No. 2 In B Flat Minor - Allegro di molto
9. Lieder ohne Worte op. 30: No. 3 In E Major - Adagio non troppo
10. Lieder ohne Worte op. 30: No. 4 In B Minor - Agitato e con fuoco
11. Lieder ohne Worte op. 30: No. 5 In D Major - Andante grazioso
12. Lieder ohne Worte op. 30: No. 6 In F Sharp Minor 'Venetian Gondola Song' - Allegretto tranquillo
13. Lieder ohne Worte op. 38: No. 1 In E Flat Major - Con moto
14. Lieder ohne Worte op. 38: No. 2 In C Minor - Allegro non troppo
15. Lieder ohne Worte op. 38: No. 3 In E Major - Presto e molto vivace
16. Lieder ohne Worte op. 38: No. 4 In A Major - Andante
17. Lieder ohne Worte op. 38: No. 5 In A Minor - Agitato
18. Lieder ohne Worte op. 38: No. 6 In A Flat Major - Andante con moto
19. Lieder ohne Worte op. 53: No. 1 In A Flat Major - Andante con moto
20. Lieder ohne Worte op. 53: No. 2 In E Flat Major - Allegro non troppo
21. Lieder ohne Worte op. 53: No. 3 In G Minor - Presto agitato
22. Lieder ohne Worte op. 53: No. 4 In F Major - Adagio
23. Lieder ohne Worte op. 53: No. 5 In A Minor 'Folksong' - Allegro con fuoco
24. Lieder ohne Worte op. 53: No. 6 In A Major - Molto allegro, vivace

Tracks:

1. Lieder ohne Worte op. 62: No. 1 In G Major - Andante espressivo
2. Lieder ohne Worte op. 62: No. 2 In B Flat Major - Allegro con fuoco
3. Lieder ohne Worte op. 62: No. 3 In E Minor 'Funeral March' - Andante maestoso
4. Lieder ohne Worte op. 62: No. 4 In G Major - Allegro con anima
5. Lieder ohne Worte op. 62: No. 5 In A Minor 'Venetian Gondola Song' - Andante con moto
6. Lieder ohne Worte op. 62: No. 6 In A Major 'Spring Song' - Allegretto grazioso
7. Lieder ohne Worte op. 67: No. 1 in E Flat Major - Andante
8. Lieder ohne Worte op. 67: No. 2 In F Sharp Minor - Allegro leggiero
9. Lieder ohne Worte op. 67: No. 3 In B Flat Major - Andante tranquillo
10. Lieder ohne Worte op. 67: No. 4 In C Major 'Spinning Song' - Presto
11. Lieder ohne Worte op. 67: No. 5 In B Minor - Moderato
12. Lieder ohne Worte op. 67: No. 6 In E Major 'Wiegenlied' - Allegretto non troppo
13. Lieder ohne Worte op. 85: No. 1 In F Major - Andante espressivo
14. Lieder ohne Worte op. 85: No. 2 In A Minor - Allegro agitato
15. Lieder ohne Worte op. 85: No. 3 In E Flat Major - Presto
16. Lieder ohne Worte op. 85: No. 4 In D Major - Andante sostenuto
17. Lieder ohne Worte op. 85: No. 5 In A Major - Allegretto
18. Lieder ohne Worte op. 85: No. 6 In B Flat Major - Allegretto con moto
19. Lieder ohne Worte op. 102: No. 1 In E Minor - Andante, un poco agitato
20. Lieder ohne Worte op. 102: No. 2 In D Major - Adagio
21. Lieder ohne Worte op. 102: No. 3 In C Major - Presto
22. Lieder ohne Worte op. 102: No. 4 In G Minor - Un poco agitato, ma andante
23. Lieder ohne Worte op. 102: No. 5 In A Major - Allegro vivace
24. Lieder ohne Worte op. 102: No. 6 In C Major - Andante
25. Kinderstucke op. 72: Allegro non troppo
26. Kinderstucke op. 72: Andante sostenuto
27. Kinderstucke op. 72: Allegretto
28. Kinderstucke op. 72: Andante con moto
29. Kinderstucke op. 72: Allegro assai
30. Kinderstucke op. 72: Vivace
31. Gondellied: Allegretto non troppo
32. 2 Klavierstucke: Andante cantabile
33. 2 Klavierstucke: Presto agitato
34. Albumblatt op. 117: Allegro

Customer Reviews:

FORGOTTEN (BY ME) BEAUTIES.......2007-05-14

Until I purchased this bargain (two discs for the price of one), recording of Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" that are played exquisitely by Daniel Barenboim, I, in the past, have listened mainly to Mendelssohn's chamber music, Concertos and/or Symphonies kind of forgetting about these most beautiful compositions, What a real pleasure this recording has been for me. I believe that Mendelssohn composed these" Songs without Words" (also included are Mendelssohn's "Kinderstucke", op 72, "Albumblatt", op. 117 and 2 short pieces) through out his short life. Daniel indeed plays all of the works including the "demanding" ones (there are surprisingly for me some very demanding ones) most beautifully never forgetting that the compositions are above all else "Songs". Daniel Barenboim always lets the melodies be heard above all else and there are some very beautiful melodies to hear.

This recording was made in the early 1970s; however, DGG has done a wonderful job of transferring them to the CD format--the sound is rich, lush and clear.

If you want to hear some beautiful compositions that are played most beautifully, buy this recording.

MENDELSSOHN'S 48.......2006-09-01

Bach's 48 preludes and fugues seem to me to be to some extent a diary of the composer's feelings, and I get much the same impression from Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words, which are also 48 in number. To me, they are beautiful and touching minor masterpieces and when I hear them I am not disturbed, or even visited, by the thought that they are not masterpieces to rank with Bach's. However I am not as exacting in evaluating a performance of them as I would be with Bach either, and when I willingly award this set 5 stars I know that I'm setting the bar lower. There are limits to what any interpreter, even the greatest, of the Songs Without Words can find in them, but for all that some interpreters are greater than others, and I happen to know even better accounts of some of these pieces than you will find on these two discs from Barenboim.

It was high time in any case that I had a complete set of these lovely works. My collection up to now had only stretched to 14 of them, but - I have to say it again - those 14 are enough to teach me the difference between fine performances and great ones. Barenboim's accounts should be easily good enough for most of us most of the time, and in addition to the Songs he throws in the Children's Pieces plus a few other short numbers that Mendelssohn, for reasons known principally to himself, chose not to publish. With one solitary exception, Barenboim's touch is affectionate, warm and beautiful, and is well served by the 1974 recording. Speeds adopted sound about right to me in general, and the interpretations offered are full of insight and loving care, and free from eccentricity or egotism. Barenboim can be powerful when he needs to be, but the requirement for power is very limited in what we have here, and the overall impression that the set leaves is rightly one of tact, sympathy and enthusiasm. My single regret concerns my own favourite of all the Songs - the Duetto op 38/6. Something goes quite unaccountably wrong here. I'd call the speed too fast in the first place, and I would have liked the pseudo-voices brought out more strongly against the arpeggio accompaniment, but the real affront to my sensibilities comes when the two voices sing forte in octaves, and Barenboim bangs out the melody in a bad-tempered and cacophonous way that reminds me of one of Kissin's off-days.

One botched effort out of 58 is not a bad ratio nevertheless. I can play the Duetto to my own satisfaction anyway, or I can listen to it on my old Turnabout LP played by Guiomar Novaes. Novaes seems to be all but forgotten these days, but she was a great player, recognised as such by no less than Debussy when she was a teenager. Her idea of the Duetto is slower than mine, indeed for an amateur like me the piece, which lies beautifully and naturally under the hands, seems practically to dictate its own speed. However it's not the tempo that makes the impression. In this piece as in many others starting with the very first of all the Songs, what transfixes me is the haughty and highlighted clarity of Novaes's melodic line and the magnificence of her left-hand tone. It also happens that in the disc that accompanies the biography of Serkin by Stephen Lehmann and Marion Faber there are two of the Songs in Novaes's selection - a solemn and gripping op 62/1 and a coruscating Spinning Song worthy of Horowitz or Cziffra for virtuosity. The point is simply this - there is an aura of greatness that surrounds the playing of Serkin and Novaes in practically anything they do. Admirable as he is, Barenboim is not quite in that league, although I don't consider the balance of advantage to be totally one-sided, and it may be that Barenboim actually makes a more appealing job of the Spring Song.

Nevertheless I have only 14 of the Songs from Novaes, and all of two from Serkin, in somewhat antiquated sound at that. Barenboim gives me all 48 plus some bonus extras, played with love and appreciation of the soul of this beautiful and affecting music. This is a set I am going to be returning to for solace and balm to the spirit, I can tell already. The recorded sound is not wondrous, but it's good 1974 quality. The liner note is from the distinguished pen of Joan Chissell, but I can't say it seems to me to amount to much. Moreover she nails her colours to the mast with the ringing challenge `No 19th-century composer exceeded Mendelssohn in respect for Classical tradition, and such ordered modes of expression as fugue...' I dispute this strenuously. Not only are Mendelssohn's fugues not his best or most professional work, as Tovey makes very clear, they are inferior in respect for classical precedent and thoroughness of workmanship to Schumann's, as the same sage also points out. Besides which Brahms was a musical scholar of minute and profound learning, particularly steeped in the great German musical tradition, to an extent that Mendelssohn never rivalled. What Mendelssohn can claim is to be sui generis, what he does best he does better than anyone, and some of his most intimate musical thoughts are to be found in the Songs Without Words. For the pleasure and comfort they bring me I thank Mendelssohn's shade and the loving and expert guidance of Barenboim.

Portraits at exhibition!.......2006-04-09

In contrast to many other musicians, Mendelssohn had an evident, fruitful and fortunate association with the visual arts. Keeping in mind his education was conceived as part of the Renascence man, so we should not ignore his classical-humanistic education, so that explains why his Symphonies maybe basically, considered such arresting visual landscapes: the Scottish, Italian and Reform would seem confirm it.

The Songs without words conform ostensibly, a great stylistic and conceptual unity. It could not be other way, noticing the fact John Field was essentially the grandfather of the nocturnes for piano and Chopin the most expressive and intimate explorer of the human soul, Mendelssohn had all those variables in mind and decided to create a portrait album. As other artists as Liszt and Goethe the exerted fascination after being in Venice would work out as febrile inspiration. Every little page of this kaleidoscopic reflects different state anima; they are structured and interweaved similarly respect Robert Schumann with his Carnival or Childhood scenes; with profound lyric and evocative accent, destined to recreate the tourist memory. He achieved then to make a voluminous album of feelings but without that marked introspective mood of Frederic Chopin, for instance.

Daniel Barenboim decided to record these ebb tide piano pieces with personal conviction and lyric imagination. The result was simply refulgent and deeply inspiring.

Second-tier Mendelssohn and Boringboim to boot.......2002-10-21

The majority of Mendelssohn's works consisted of fluff and flutter reminisent of Mozart on an off-day and these piano pieces certainly aren't among Mendelssohn's small number of masterworks.The fact that these compositions are no more than trifles is made worse by Barenboim's insistence in trying to infuse an element of profundity to them.The result is tedium and annoyance.I owned this 2 disk set for more than 2 years and didn't listen to it more than 7-8 times.Every time I would try and listen boredom would set in and within a few minutes listening became a matter of endurance.I finally traded it off and haven't missed it in the least.It may be a 2 for the price of 1 set but,as usual,such "bargains" are hardly a bargain.

Excellent!.......2002-02-18

This is one of my top 5 classical piano CDs. It has a relaxing, easy-to-listen-to sound that I never get tired of. Every song in this 2-cd set is great.

Average customer rating: Finally released Good CD the muppet christmas carol cd Holiday Classic with Kermit , Miss Piggy, and Michael Caine Awesome

The Muppet Christmas Carol Manufacturer: Disney ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Noels | Vocal Non-Opera | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Pop | Styles | Music Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music Movie Scores | Soundtracks | Styles | Music Movie Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Soundtracks | Styles | Music General | Children's Music | Styles | Music Disney | Children's Music | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Disney Records | Amazon.com Label Stores | Stores | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Similar Items: The Muppet Christmas Carol - Kermit's 50th Anniversary Edition A Christmas Together The Muppets - A Green and Red Christmas The Ultimate White Christmas It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie ASIN: B000BRD72K Release Date: 2005-11-22

Tracks:

1. Overture (Instrumental) - Paul Williams
2. Scrooge - Cast
3. Room In Your Heart - Honeydew And Beaker
4. Good King Wenceslas - Muppet Brass Buskers
5. One More Sleep 'Til Christmas - Kermit
6. Marley And Marley - Marley And Marley
7. Christmas Past (Instrumental) - Paul Williams
8. Chairman Of The Board - Sam Eagle
9. Fozziwig's Party - Dr. Teeth And The Electric Mayhem
10. When Love Is Gone - Belle
11. It Feels Like Christmas - Ghost Of Christmas Present
12. Christmas Scat - Tiny Tim
13. Bless Us All - Tiny Tim And Family
14. Christmas Future (Instrumental) - Paul Williams
15. Christmas Morning (Instrumental) - Paul Williams
16. Thankful Heart - Scrooge
17. Finale:When Love Is Found/It Feels Like Christmas - Various Artists
18. When Love Is Gone - Martina McBride

Amazon.com

For right-minded buyers of the reissued Muppet Christmas Carol soundtrack, the odds of disappointment are about as remote as Miss Piggy's chances with Kermit. If you loved the movie, you will love the loopy mayhem of the Muppet Brass Buskers ("Good King Wenceslas"), the cartoonish malice of the black-hearted misanthropes Marley & Marley ("Marley & Marley"), and the hope-swollen harmonies of Tiny Tim and Family ("Bless Us All"), Muppeted here to hilariously humble effect. If, on the other hand, your interest in this disc has more to do with its inclusion in the way-narrow Christmas-record-for-kids category--if the spirit of the season doesn't extend, for you, to the magic of the Muppets--you may want to keep browsing, as it's a soundtrack first (overture, instrumentals, and all) and a Christmas CD second. That's not to suggest you're stuck with an un-fun disc should it land on your holiday stack without a prior screening, though. Miles Goodman's score sweeps and inspires, and certain tracks--"One More Sleep 'til Christmas" and "Fozziwig's Party"--are future classics. (Note to the right-minded: After a misstep on the original release, Martina McBride's version of "When Love is Gone" is back.) -Tammy La Gorce

Customer Reviews:

Finally released.......2007-05-23

If your Christmas isn't complete without listening to this music, this CD is a must buy. The audio quality is excellent despite the age of the film. Michael Cain and Belle come out crystal clear in their solo and ensemble work. The surprise of this album is the inclusion of two tracks (one by Beaker and Bunson and one by Scrogge's primary school teacher) that are not in the film. They are fun but unexpected. I could only ask that the CD last longer with such beautiful traditional music, but alas there is no more music to include. Maybe they could market Muppet Christmas Carol and Muppet Treasure Island together in the future?

Good CD.......2007-02-14

My wife has been looking for this soundtrack for years. We were very happy to find it and get it so fast. This has some of the best music ever written for a movie.

the muppet christmas carol cd.......2007-01-19

Amazing the songs are so cleaver and i have bee waiting for this for a long time, it has been out of print great cd and the movie is so awesome!!

Holiday Classic with Kermit , Miss Piggy, and Michael Caine.......2007-01-12

The score from The Muppet Christmas Carol is full of the spirit of Christmas. The familiar story by Dicken's is given new life with the great score (mostly written by Paul Williams). Great energy is relayed to the listener as Scrooge (Michael Caine)is painted in words and as Bob Cratchet (Kermit the Frog) sings with his co-workers 'One More Sleep 'Til Christmas'. The love song duet between Scrooge (Michael Caine) and his fiancee during a ghostly vision brings great pathos to the character. For lovers of the Muppets and or Dickens, there is no better way to enter into the spirit of the season.

Awesome.......2007-01-08

These are some of the most heartwarming songs. I even find myself singing the ones about poor Mr. Scrooge.

Average customer rating: A Listening Pleasure

Christmas Songs Anuna Manufacturer: Koch Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Celtic New Age | New Age | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Opera & Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music New Age | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Fusion | Celtic | International | Styles | Music All Bargain Titles | Holiday Music | Miscellaneous | Today's Deals in Music | Formats | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 New Age | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Essential Anuna Behind the Closed Eye Cynara Sensation Deep Dead Blue ASIN: B0002VEQ5M Release Date: 2004-10-05

Tracks:

1. AWAY IN A MANGER
2. THE WEXFORD CAROL
3. THE FIRST DAY
4. RIU RIU
5. SILENT NIGHT
6. THE COVENTRY CAROL
7. CODHLAIM GO SUAN
8. CHRISTMAS DAY IS COME
9. WINTER, FIRE AND SNOW
10. PIE JESU
11. HYMN TO THE VIRGIN
12. O HOLY NIGHT
13. THER IS NO ROS

Customer Reviews:

A Listening Pleasure.......2005-12-12

This is a five star album from a five star group. "Away in the Manger" is done in a simple, but exquisite manner. The quality of sound is magnificent. Monica Donlon has a gorgeous voice, well showcased on the Irish "Wexford Carol." "The First Day" adds instrumental interest, a very contemplative piece with voices used as pedal tones. "Riu Riu" is rhythmical and catchy. "Silent Night" is performed at an extremely slow tempo milking the harmonization and classic Anuna sound in a aura of sensual sound. The plaintive melancholy of "The Coventry Carol" aptly suits the text. There are interesting harmonizations and slight tweeks in the melody that separate this arrangement from the average. Four of the next six tracks are original compositions by Michael McGlyn and are a wonderful addition to the Christmas repertoire. The liner notes are ten pages that include the lyrics and brief commentary. Like the album, they are rendered in a classy manner. If you appreciate fine choral music and exceptional Christmas music, this album is a must.

Average customer rating: LOVE IT! All Is Definately Well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Beautiful! $23.00 + for a 4 song CD? Simply breathtaking!!

All Is Well - Songs For Christmas Clay Aiken Manufacturer: RCA Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Pop | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music General | Vocal Pop | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: A Thousand Different Ways Merry Christmas With Love A Clay Aiken Christmas The Way / Solitaire Bridge Over Troubled Water/This Is The Night ASIN: B000LCB2UE

Product Description

4 Brand New Christmas songs from Clay Aiken Only available here! Track listing: "All Is Well", "Christmas Waltz", O Come O Come Emmanuel", "My Grown-Up Christmas List"

Customer Reviews:

LOVE IT!.......2007-06-24

I would never have been able to get this excellent album by Clay if not for a couple of wonderful friends who tried fervently to get me one. I love this Christmas album as much as his first Christmas album. One of my complains is that it had only 4 songs. I would have loved another full Christmas album by Aiken. My biggest complain is that there were so few copies produced. There are many fans that I know of who wanted this album but cannot get it and this has led to opportunists selling this cd at ridiculous prices. Can't more be made available from the label?

All Is Definately Well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!.......2006-12-20

Clay's Brand New Christmas CD: All Is Well is amazing!!!!!!! It features the songs from Clay's Joyful Noise Tour 2005. It features the songs All Is Well,Christmas Waltz, O Come O Come Emanuel and of course My Grownup Christmas List!!!!! This CD was flawlessly produced. It is amazing!!!!! My favorites on this CD are All Is Well and My Grownup Christmas List!!!!! Clay's vocals always seem to get better and better on each CD he makes. The glory note in All Is Well is held for 8 sec. I really love that glory note!!!!!!

Beautiful!.......2006-12-14

Love all the songs, but I bought it for "All is Well, and "Emanuel." Surprisingly, I really like his take on "My Grown up Christmas List." The first time I heard that song was by Kelly Clarkson and I loved the way she sang it. Now I love it by Clay too. I would highly recommend this cd, but you won't be able to get it. It's all sold out. My sister heard mine and wanted it. I went back to the Walmart and they were gone.

$23.00 + for a 4 song CD?.......2006-12-13

I totally agree with "acrl" how can anyone justify putting this up for sale for more than $10 the day it came out. Who in their right mind would pay that much for it? That being said, this far too brief recording is a fantastic holiday follow-up to Clay's tremendous Merry Christmas With Love. O Come, O Come Emmanuel is totally changed from the traditional. My one qualm (other than length) is the choice of My Grown-Up Christmas List. It is a glorious rendition, but it seems that most singers today have a recording of it. Happy Holidays to all (even to the Scrooge who wants to make a profit from the recording...Bah, Humbug!!

Simply breathtaking!!.......2006-12-07

I feel so lucky that I was able to get this CD!! This is Clay Aiken doing what he was born to do. All of the songs are beautifully sung, but "All is Well" is absolutely amazing. I don't know of any other singer with such a vocal range who could even begin to do that song justice. This CD is a treasure and makes me hope that Clay will give us more Christmas music in the future. This one is sure to become a classic that will be played long after the Christmas season has ended.

Average customer rating: ok, THIS is Loreena McKennitt's CHRISTMAS Album Great Artist! wonderful a winter garden beautiful!

A Winter Garden: Five Songs for the Season Loreena McKennitt Manufacturer: Quinlan Road ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD General | Folk | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz Fusion | Jazz | Styles | Music Celtic New Age | New Age | Styles | Music General | New Age | Styles | Music General | Adult Contemporary | Pop | Styles | Music Adult Alternative | Pop | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday | Miscellaneous | Styles | Music General | Celtic | International | Styles | Music New Age | Celtic | International | Styles | Music Fusion | Celtic | International | Styles | Music General Christmas | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music Pop Vocal | Holiday Music | Special Features | Music 4-for-3 International | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Jazz | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 Pop | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music 4-for-3 All Music | 4-for-3 Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: An Ancient Muse To Drive the Cold Winter Away The Visit Parallel Dreams The Mask and Mirror ASIN: B000002N3H Release Date: 1995-11-07

Tracks:

1. Coventry Carol
2. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
3. Good King Wenceslas
4. Snow
5. Seeds Of Love

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Loreena McKennitt's "songs for the season" are haunting for their beauty and her fascinating voice. Blending traditional Irish music with worldbeat and New Age-like instrumentation, McKennitt's arrangements are at once elegant and eloquent, enchanting and familiar, whether she's singing "Coventry Carol," "God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen," or "Good King Wenceslas." "Snow," adapted from a 19th-century poem, and the traditional "Seeds of Love" are so lofty and deep they reach almost mystical places. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews:

ok, THIS is Loreena McKennitt's CHRISTMAS Album.......2007-06-16

Everyone considers Loreena McKennitt's "To Drive the Cold Winter Away" her Christmas album. I ask people not to call it that, it is more than that, it is music for the whole season from leaf-fall to buds and sprouts in the spring.

This, then, is her Christmas album. Although short, at only five songs, it is a well thought-out album, and a definite "Must-Have" and a "Keeper". The songs here are wonderful, not your standard fare for Christmas, so it is a fresh experience, something always welcome with music for this time of the year, don't you think? Her accompanyment, here, is harp only, so everything is light and open, just right, and soothing after all the crash and bang regular Christmas music......I mean, how many times can one listen to Silver Bells, Jingle Bells, and Here Comes Santa Claus before you just wanna scream "STOP!", huh?

Pick this album up, take it home, and slip in between some other Christmas albums, and be prepared to go "WOW!....That's Nice!", and to also find a new favorite Christmas album. ~operabruin

Great Artist!.......2007-05-14

This is an awesome holiday / winter / Christmas CD. It is short (only 5 songs) but it is full of voice and enough to set the mood perfectly. Not traditional versions of the songs, but none the less beautiful.

wonderful.......2007-01-20

This is THE Christmas album to have.Loreena McKennitt's hauntingly beautiful voice and the wonderful arrangements of traditional Christmas songs has made this our most listened to Christmas album in the last few years.I like to play this album any time of the year as it is very peaceful and relaxing to hear.

a winter garden.......2007-01-11

I love Loreena McKennitts' music. this CD is very melodic in a Celtic way. the music on this CD is also very mellow listening. I love the rhythms of the instruments used.

beautiful!.......2006-12-31

The only reason I gave this item "4 stars" is because it only has the 5 songs on it - I wish it had more. However, it's still worth buying. The songs are hauntingly beautiful, in McKennitt's signature style. If you enjoy her music, this album won't disappoint. I recommend it! :-)

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Carl Loewe: Ausgewählte Balladen

El Pasodoble [Import]

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