White Christmas: A Christmas Festival | 
 enlarge | Creators: Leroy Anderson, Johann Sebastian Bach, Irving Berlin, J. Fred Coots, George Frederick Handel, Johnny Marks, Leopold Mozart, Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky, Arthur Fiedler, Boston Pops Orchestra
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Category: Music
List Price: $9.98
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Rating:  4 reviews
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.6 x 0.5
MPN: 419414
UPC: 289419414282
EAN: 0028941941428
Release Date: October 25, 1990
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| Tracks:
| • | A Christmas Festival: Joy to the World/Deck the Halls/God Rest Ye ... - Boston Pops Orchestra, Bach, Johann Sebast | | • | Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring - Boston Pops Orchestra, | | • | Shepherds' Music - Boston Pops Orchestra, | | • | "Hallelujah" Chorus - Boston Pops Orchestra, | | • | Sheep May Safely Graze - Boston Pops Orchestra, | | • | Sleighride - Boston Pops Orchestra, Anderson, Leroy | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming to Town - Boston Pops Orchestra, Coots, J. Fred | | • | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - Boston Pops Orchestra, Marks, Johnny | | • | Waltz of the Flowers - Boston Pops Orchestra, | | • | Musical Sleighride (Musikalische Schlittenfahrt) - Boston Pops Orchestra, Mozart, Leopold | | • | White Christmas - Boston Pops Orchestra, Berlin, Irving |
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| Customer Reviews:
Christmas isn't Christmas without this CD January 14, 2008
Barbara S. Flynn
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This CD has been a favorite for decades with a great variety of orchestral music ranging from selections from The Messiah to Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer, complete with clip-clopping hooves, sleigh bells and cracking whips. The Boston Pops can do it all. Great at full volume or as background music.
White Christmas: A Christmas Festival January 17, 2007
L. Jones
This is an excellent holiday CD. Had this on cassette years ago, was glad to find it on Amazon.com. It was shipped promptly, therfore I got to enjoy it during the Christmas holidays. It was a great find, so I can add this to my holiday CD collection.
 Late-period Fiedler, still worthwhile November 7, 2002
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Most of Fiedler's Pops Christmas albums feature recordings done for RCA Victor in 1959. This collection is unique in that the marjority of the pieces were done at a 1970 session for the Deutsche Grammophon label. (The two Bach pieces were recorded in 1976, also for DG.) It therefore features a different group of musicians and a maestro who was older and, perhaps, a bit less sprightly than the Fiedler of 1959.Which is not to say that these pieces aren't elegantly played and well-recorded. It's just that they seem to have a more formal, going-through-the-motions feel than the earlier BPO recordings under Fiedler's baton. He doesn't seem to be having as much FUN as his younger self did, and it comes up in the performance. But even past-his-prime Fiedler is well worth hearing, and any fan of the conductor and his Pops would be well advised to pick this one up if you can find it.
An Old Favorite October 28, 2002
Richard J. Roberts (Indianapolis, IN USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This album contains the same selections as RCA's "A Christmas Festival," plus two additional Bach selections. And it costs...less! The highlight of the album is Leroy Anderson's "A Christmas Festival," the most creative, thrilling instrumental medley of Christmas tunes ever arranged, and of course Fiedler's performance with the Boston Pops is definitive (even though it leaves out the pipe organ at the very end). Other highlights include Anderson's ever popular "Sleighride," the Pops' signature arrangement of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," and a shimmering, enchanting "White Christmas." A lovely combination of popular and classical orchestral selections for the holdays.
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