13 reviews

Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5

MPN: 000530102
UPC: 028947568964
EAN: 0028947568964

Release Date: October 11, 2005
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Tracks:

•	O holy night (Minuit chretien)
•	Pieta, Signore
•	Panis Angelicus
•	Qual Giglio Candido
•	Ave Maria
•	Gesu Bambino
•	Che faro senza Euridice
•	Cujus animam gementem
•	Ingemisco
•	Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846
•	Mille cherubini in coro (arr. after Schubert)
•	Agnus Dei
•	Sanctus
•	Adeste Fideles (O come, all ye faithful)
•	O Jesu mi ducissime
•	Ave verum corpus (attrib.)
•	Ave Maria, Dolce Maria

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Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
This CD is a compilation of (mainly) devotional music sung by Pavarotti when he was in or near his prime, most going back, gloriously, to 1976. Precisely what Orfeo's lament (from the Gluck opera) is doing in a recital called "O Holy Night" is beyond me, but the rest of the selections are well chosen. The title song is gorgeously enough performed to be worth the album's asking price, the tenor's voice ringing out with great clarity and beauty, and the selection from Rossini's Stabat Mater is even more thrilling, with its ascent to high D flat near its close. Verdi's "Ingemisco," from his Requiem, is handsomely and sensitively delivered, and the others elections, with or without choir, are simply stunning. A CD for Christmas and the rest of the year as well. --Robert Levine

Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Pavarotti's Christmas Gift January 14, 2008
La Suprema (California)
Pavarotti is in his prime for this one and the selections are both touching and grand. Mille Cherubini, a tender lullaby, is my favorite but his Agnus Dei is rich and grand. The choral backgrounds are also very good. I bought the cassette when it came out in the 70's and I am thrilled that they reissued it as CD to grace my 2007 Christmas .

5 out of 5 stars

Pavarotti's Christmas CD December 31, 2007
Dusty (Frankfort, KY)
Since Pavarotti's death, there will be no more wonderful Christmas music from such a perfect voice. The "O Holy Night" CD was glorious to listen to during the holidays. His "Ave Maria's" were outstanding!

5 out of 5 stars

A very special Christmas album December 24, 2007
Wings42 (San Diego, CA United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

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.

5 out of 5 stars

Pavarotti the name says it all December 24, 2007
Harry (phoenix azUnited States)
This is one of 5 cd's that we purchased to help in some small way to capture the voice of the ages that was quieted this past year. Now we will be able to enjoy his emense talent simply by a click of the switch. Purchasing this and the other 4 items was so easy on Amazon no hunting through aisles of cd's-very pleased with all 5 and unwilling to single one out as the best of the best. Each is a treasure.But for seasonal music this is the primo selection of all.

5 out of 5 stars

Pleasant listening December 23, 2007
Carol Louise Oosthuizen (B.C., Canada)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is a CD I have listened to repeatedly. Pavarotti sings with sincerity and great musicality. The songs are familiar and some are 'potboilers' (such as Schubert's "Ave Maria" and "Panis Angelicus"). Pavarotti's voice is characteristically warm, open-throated and full yet there is an intimacy to these recordings, which were made over several decades.

Pavarotti sings with various top class orchestras and some songs have a choral backing. There are 17 songs, which is generous.

It seems strange to have included "Che faro senza Euridice?" on what is otherwise a CD of exclusively Christian music, but Pavarotti does such a beautiful job with it that that is a minor quibble.

This is a CD which will give the listener years of pleasure.O Holy Night / Luciano Pavarotti / Special Deluxe Edition (Decca)