Track Listing

1. Joy To The World
2. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
3. Starbright
4. Angels
5. Fireside
6. What Child Is This?
7. Hope Is Born Again
8. Winter Peace
9. The First Noel
10. Oh Christmas Tree
11. Little Town Of Bethlehem
12. Dreams Come True
13. The Gift

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25695 in Music
• Released on: 1997-09-30
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 43 minutes

Amazon.com
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

Customer Reviews

Jim Brickman Christmas CD
We love this CD. It is beautiful music. We bought more to give as gifts.

Good Christmas music but not the vocals
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"
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.