The Gift | 
 enlarge | Artists: Jim Brickman, Susan Ashton
Label: RCA Victor
Category: Music
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Rating:  25 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Running Time: 43 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 11242
UPC: 019341157328
EAN: 0019341124221
Release Date: September 30, 1997
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| Tracks:
| • | Joy to the World - Jim Brickman, Mason, Lowell | | • | It Came Upon a Midnight Clear - Jim Brickman, Sears, Edmund Hamil | | • | Starbright - Jim Brickman, Brickman, Jim | | • | Angels - Jim Brickman, | | • | Fireside - Jim Brickman, | | • | What Child Is This? - Jim Brickman, Dix, William Chatte | | • | Hope Is Born Again - Jim Brickman, Bourgeois, Brent | | • | Winter Peace - Jim Brickman, | | • | The First Noel - Jim Brickman, Sandys, William | | • | O Christmas Tree - Jim Brickman, | | • | Little Town of Bethlehem - Jim Brickman, | | • | Dream Come True - Jim Brickman, Brickman, Jim | | • | The Gift - Jim Brickman, Brickman, Jim |
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Jim Brickman's 1997 holiday package is all satin bows and glowing hearth embers, precisely the approach his romantically inclined legions would have wished him to take. Those with less sentimental ears might argue that at times the pianist's approach is a touch too sweet. "Joy to the World" would be more affecting as a solo work, for instance, and we could have done without the strings and music-box embellishments heard in "Angels." Yet Brickman compensates by delicately tracing a path to our heart-of-hearts in the album's two superb, nonholiday originals, "Fireside" and "Winter Peace." Three vocal tracks surface here: a breathy Kenny Loggins sings on the album's obligatory lullaby ("Starbright"), the female gospel group Point of Grace takes a bow ("Hope is Born Again"), and country vocalist Collin Raye performs a heart-clutching duet with Susan Ashton on the title track. It's not Brickman's finest record, but it's a very pretty one. --Terry Wood
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| Customer Reviews: Read 20 more reviews...
 Jim Brickman Christmas CD February 7, 2007
M. Gillam
We love this CD. It is beautiful music. We bought more to give as gifts.
 Good Christmas music but not the vocals December 31, 2006
keyboardplyr (Hinckley, OH USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm not fond of the vocals on any of Jim Brickman's work and this is no exception. His playing is lovely as always but I wish he'd stick to instrumentals and not have vocalists on his albums. They always seem to ruin the mood.
 Jim Brickman CD "The Gift" February 23, 2006
Wynanne P. Hilliard (Warner Robins GA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
A friend loaned me her CD and I absolutely loved it......but I could not purchase it ANYWHERE.....my daughter suggested I contact you.....results, results!!!! Thank you! A most outstanding seasonal soft listening CD.
Christmas Music at its best! December 20, 2004
CAM (South Windsor, CT USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Jim Brickman makes the piano sound like bells and how appropriate for Christmas music! This CD is a must have in your holiday music collection!
Lovely religious Christmas piano music November 29, 2003
cyclista (the Midwest)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I purchased this cd because I had heard "Joy to the World" on a compilation CD of various artists. I was otherwise unfamiliar with Jim Brickman. I liked his piano style on this song with some light jazzy overtones. "The Gift" is a mostly instrumental CD. I would have liked a bit more variety in his piano playing from song to song. I enjoyed the largely traditional treatment of my favorite Christmas carols. I recommend this CD to anyone looking for religious Christmas piano music. The music is both spiritual and soothing.
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