3 reviews

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

MPN: 465932
UPC: 028946593226
EAN: 0028946593226

Release Date: October 10, 2000
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Tracks:

•	Ave Maria - Schubert, Franz
•	Holy Night
•	Panis Angelicus
•	Ombra mai fu
•	Alleluia
•	Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring
•	Ave Maria - Schubert, Franz
•	See the Conqu'ring Hero Comes
•	Maria Wiegenlied
•	Jauchzet, Frohlocket!
•	O Thou That Tellest Good Tidings to Zion
•	For Unto us a Child is Born
•	Rejoice Greatly, O Daughter of Zion
•	Hallelujah!
•	I Know That my Redeemer Liveth
•	The Trumpet Shall Sound
•	Amen

Similar Items:

•	The Ave Maria Album
•	The Voices of Christmas
•	Sacred Classics - Messiah, Ave Maria, Pie Jesu, Zadok the Priest, L'enfance du Christ
•	Kiri Te Kanawa - Ave Maria
•	The Three Tenors Christmas

Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
If you're already stocked up on your favorite Christmas carols but are looking for a nice solid anthology of sacred music, this one certainly has a lot of enjoyment to offer. True, a little more thought could have gone into this themed compilation. What does the Largo from Handel's opera Serse, featuring countertenor Andreas Scholl (his name consistently misspelled on the CD, by the way), have to do with the Yuletide season? No matter, it is after all one of the world's supreme melodies, and Scholl is part of the motley collection of big-name performers Decca has culled from its catalog for this release, which also includes Luciano Pavarotti, Cecilia Bartoli, Marilyn Horne, Bryn Terfel, et al. The anthology is weighted heavily toward the baroque, with a number of Bach selections and seven tracks from Messiah (another work that has by popular tradition become most associated with Christmas even though it was conceived as an Easter celebration). The latter make a sort of mini-anthology within this anthology, giving you a series of "ultimate" moments from Handel's masterpiece--but you certainly won't want to be without the entire work. --Herbert Fellows

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars

Though not ultimate, still very good December 21, 2008
D. Carr (No. Calif., USA)
A very good sampler of classical sacred Christmas music, sung or performed by some of today's finest musicians and singers. Perhaps a bit too generous with selections from Handel's Messiah but all very well arranged and performed. If you liked the Ultimate Hymn CD you should like this Christmas companion.

5 out of 5 stars

Awesome voices December 24, 2003
A. Browne (USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful

This CD is eloquent and so magnetically alluring. It begins with the ever so popular (sopranist) Ms. Leontyne Price's "Ave Maria" and finishes beautifully with the entire operatic voices of the English Choir in the song "Amen". I'm always floored by the voices of Ms. Leontyne Price and Mr. Jose Carrera. The instrumentalists and the great composing of many of the fine songs listed on this CD is superb; well job done by the conductors, very.

4 out of 5 stars

prevision October 23, 2000
Kobus A W Kortmann (Houston, TX USA)
4 out of 53 found this review helpful

When I read what is on this CD and who performs it, I can not wait to order. Now only 4 stars, but I am sure that the 5th will be given after I heard this album. Kobus Kortmann