Track Listing

1. The Little Road To Bethlehem
2. Carol Of The Bells
3. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
4. Veni Veni Emmanuel
5. Silent Night
6. Christmas Morning
7. Sleigh Ride
8. River
9. Little Drummer Boy
10. Corpus Christi Carol
11. All With You
12. The Coventry Carol
13. Winter's Dream
14. Peace Shall Come
15. It's Only Christmas (with Ronan Keating)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #250 in Music
• Released on: 2009-11-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 50 minutes

CD Description
A magical collection of Christmas songs from the 22 year old singing phenomenon that is Hayley Westenra. Winter Magic combines some of the best loved and most familiar seasonal carols such as "Silent Night" and "Coventry Carol" with popular Christmas songs "Little Drummer Boy" and "Sleigh Ride", as well as tracks Hayley has written herself ("Peace Shall Come", "All With You" and "Christmas Morning"). The variety of the song choices perfectly showcases the versatility of Hayley’s angelic voice and her ability to not only perform in a beautiful, classical way ("Corpus Christi Carol") but also in a considerably more 'pop' style ("Peace Shall Come").

Customer Reviews

Hayley's "Winter Magic" is Pure Magic!
Although this album is not due for release in the UK for several weeks, the Japanese version containing identical tracks was released on 30th September and I have to say that this is one of the most beautiful Christmas albums I have ever heard, such that I think I will find it very hard to restrict myself to just airing it over Christmas.

This is an album that the whole family will enjoy as it contains children's favourites like "Silent Night" & "Little Drummer Boy" as well as a good selection of traditional carols such as "Carol of the Bells", "The Coventry Carol" and "Veni Veni Emmanuel", the latter, a hauntingly beautiful rendition sung in Latin by Hayley with such passion that I defy anyone to try to do anything but listen whilst it plays.

Other tracks include a moving rendition of Joni Mitchell's "River" and three totally new songs which Hayley co-wrote - "Christmas Morning", All With You" and "Peace Shall Come", one of the most powerful tracks on the album. All in all, it's very difficult to pick a favourite

Hayley is at her stunning best on this album and her captivating vocals shine through on each and every track with lyrics seeming to come alive such that it feels like the listener is being drawn into the mood of each song. I believe this is going to be one Christmas album that is going to be talked about for many Christmas's to come. It just can't go wrong.

Another Masterpiece
This album has it all!

Something Old (Corpus Christi Carol, Coventry Carol, Silent Night)
Something New (Christmas Morning, All With You, Peace Shall Come)
Something Borrowed (River - from Joni Mitchell)
Something Blue (River again)

Something Traditional, Something Innovative
Something well known, Something obscure
Something up-tempo, Something slow
Something spiritual, Something material
Something joyful, Something sad
Something classical, Something folk, Something pop
Something religious, Something secular

Somtimes light hearted, sometimes serious, somtimes breathtakingly beautiful

Always beautifully sung, Always brilliantly arranged
Always quality songs, always well recorded

Never boring, never stodgy, never pretentious, never tacky

All that, performed by one of the world's great voices.

What more could you want? This is Christmas music that can hold its own throughout the year.

Get it! You won't regret it! This is a truly wonderful album!

Beautiful voice, great arrangements
I love Chrismtas music and bought this album after listening to samples. It's a very high quality recording with lovely purity of voice from Hayley. There are a variety of songs and each arrangement is excellently produced. Westenra's arrangements of "Sleigh Ride" and "The Chrismtas Song" have already become my favourite arrangements and I have several versions on my iPod!

There are other songs that I was less familar with and yet they all have a wonderful Christmas feel. If you enjoy Christmas music then this will be a great additional to your festive collection and give greater enjoyment than some of the Christmas Complilations that are packed with dozens of tracks. If you are a Westenra fan then you won't be disappointed with this collection, it's the high quality music that you would expect from her.

Highly recommended for the festive season!