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Format:MP3 Download
I had the original CD but lost it. We couldn't face Christmas without playing this; a Christmas staple for 20 years+. Realising at the last moment it was missing, I had to download it.
More important than Christmas pudding or even the tree.
This download has some extra songs on it. Whilst good, they are not up to the exemplary standard of the original. Although they are free, I would prefer that they were not there. I'll probably move them off the playlist and keep them somewhere else. Less is sometimes more, without them the recording would finish on a high that you can enjoy well into the silence that follows. With them, there is a slight let-down.
This, along with 'The Pearl Fishers' collection from Jussi Bjorling [also 5*] are my all time favourite tenor collections.
if you think you might like opera, this is an excellent place to start.
More important than Christmas pudding or even the tree.
This download has some extra songs on it. Whilst good, they are not up to the exemplary standard of the original. Although they are free, I would prefer that they were not there. I'll probably move them off the playlist and keep them somewhere else. Less is sometimes more, without them the recording would finish on a high that you can enjoy well into the silence that follows. With them, there is a slight let-down.
This, along with 'The Pearl Fishers' collection from Jussi Bjorling [also 5*] are my all time favourite tenor collections.
if you think you might like opera, this is an excellent place to start.
Format:Audio CD
A wonderful collection of Pavarotti often singing at his best. However, I found 'O Holy Night' slightly disappointing since he did not modulate an occasional harshness of tone.
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
For the meaning of Christmas --
1 Nov 2006
Format:Audio CD
For enjoying the spirit of the Christmas season, I rely on The Time Life Platinum Christmas Collection, "Treasury of Christmas I", 3 CD set of 36 songs by various artists, UPC 1130-11311-2. But for the MEANING of Christmas, only Pavarotti's renditions of these timeless, beautiful songs meet the challange. I've listened to others, from Il Divo to Carerras and Domingo, but none meld the scores, arrangements and precise delivery and have the same effect upon the listener. This is Pavarotti, the ultimate tenor, recorded at his best.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
A very special Christmas album
24 Dec 2007
Format:Audio CD
My wife and I love Christmas music, but this album is in a class by itself. It is opera, classical music, Christmas carols, and the most heartfelt and expressive personal expression of religious feeling. It is exalted and joyous, and to my wife and me, inexpressively beautiful. We're listening to "O Holy Night" as I type this on Christmas Eve, as we've listened to this album since its release, several times each year before and after Christmas. Each year, I discover new depths and new appreciation for songs that we maybe didn't hear as clearly previously.
Forget the aging Pavarotti singing with diminished voice into a microphone to packed arenas, handkerchief in hand. This was recorded in January 1976 in England when Pavarotti was in his prime, movingly expressing his deep religious feeling through magnificent music. The great opera conductor Kurt Herbert Adler of the Chicago Lyric Opera and then Music Director of the San Francisco Opera perfectly led the National Philharmonic Orchestra, along with the magnificent Wandsworth Boys Choir and London Voices led by Terry Edward. I should point out that this album is classical and operatic music, or beloved carols done in a classical or operatic style. You won't find "Frosty the Snowman", "Jingle Bells", or "A Chipmunk's Christmas" here.
Treat yourself to this album, and look forward to years of deepening appreciation and pleasure from it. It can become an integral part of your Christmas celebration, a special annual treat, as it's become for my family.
Forget the aging Pavarotti singing with diminished voice into a microphone to packed arenas, handkerchief in hand. This was recorded in January 1976 in England when Pavarotti was in his prime, movingly expressing his deep religious feeling through magnificent music. The great opera conductor Kurt Herbert Adler of the Chicago Lyric Opera and then Music Director of the San Francisco Opera perfectly led the National Philharmonic Orchestra, along with the magnificent Wandsworth Boys Choir and London Voices led by Terry Edward. I should point out that this album is classical and operatic music, or beloved carols done in a classical or operatic style. You won't find "Frosty the Snowman", "Jingle Bells", or "A Chipmunk's Christmas" here.
Treat yourself to this album, and look forward to years of deepening appreciation and pleasure from it. It can become an integral part of your Christmas celebration, a special annual treat, as it's become for my family.
11 of 13 people found the following review helpful
The Maestro
15 Jan 2006
Format:Audio CD
These are the great musical selections that only Pavarotti can do justice. To put them into the hands of someone else would be a disservice to both the composer and the listener.
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