Track Listing

1. Once In Royal David's City - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
2. O Little Town Of Bethlehem - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
3. Away In A Manger - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
4. Ding! Dong! Merrily on high - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
5. I Saw Three Ships - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
6. Deck The Hall With Boughs Of Holly - The Sixteen
7. While Shepherds Watched - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
8. O Come All Ye Faithful - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
9. Silent Night - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
10. The Holly And The Ivy - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
11. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen - The Sixteen
12. In Dulci Jubilo - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
13. The Sussex Carol - The Sixteen
14. Angels From The Realms Of Glory - The Sixteen
15. Good King Wenceslas - The Sixteen
16. The First Nowell - The Sixteen
17. In The Bleak Midwinter - The Sixteen
18. The Angel Gabriel - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
19. As With Gladness - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
20. Unto Us Is Born A Son - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
21. See Amid The Winter's Snow - The Sixteen
22. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
23. The Coventry Carol - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge
24. We Wish You A Merry Christmas - Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
25. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - The Choir Of Trinity College Cambridge

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1161 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-15
• Number of discs: 1

Customer Reviews

an absolute delight
Pop this on your sound system when the family's round for Christmas and I guarantee a hush will descend on the gathering. This is a fantastic album, with sobre, moving renditions of our most cherished Christmas carols. No glitz, no glitter, just beautiful, timeless songs, beautifully rendered. A treasure trove for adults and children alike. This is what Christmas is about!

Enjoyable For The Festive Season
Brilliant stuff to put on for Christmas. I was however unbelievably dissapointed when I found myself struggling to hear the carols. Not the best buy I've made, and some of the carols are very clear and good to listen to, I found that several of the carols were drounded out by the music (still good, but I bought this for the carols). Nice to listen to, now I've got it I'm not annoyed, but had I have heard this before I probably would've had second thoughts before purchasing it, still, it didn't cost much, and none of the tracks are horrible to listen to, they are all nice, just not quite what I hoped for

Not the best I'm afraid
I was looking forward to this one but I'm afraid (despite the time of year) I can't be too charitable about it. Carol's are all about voices and I'm afraid the quality of the voices on the recordings are just not up to scratch. It's like they recorded at the back a big echoing hall with the microphone in a goldfish bowl. A lot of the time the lyrics are a next to inaudible mush and frequently sung in such a low key and somber fashion as to render otherwise cheerful and uplifting carols into elevator music.

The poor soloists are given little chance to shine either with their voices almost inaudible compared to the woolly wall of sound that accompanies them.

Christmas carols should surely be sung with joy and celebration (it's for Christmas after all) and recorded with clarity to get the most from them.

I've given it two stars because at least there is a large selection on the disc - I'm afraid I didn't think most of them were up to much though.

Well there's my tuppence worth - there's plenty of other Christmas compilations out there. Happy listening. (or if you can't be happy have a listen to the Alfie Boe CD - bring a tear to a glass eye 5/5).