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Winter Dreams for Christmas
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Track Listing
- I Saw Three Ships
- What Child Is This/Greensleeves
- Angels We Have Heard On High
- We Three Kings
- Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
- The First Noel
- Coventry Carol
- The First Snowfall
- Silent Night (With Navajo Chorale)
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #112956 in Music
- Released on: 1993-11-23
- Number of discs: 1
Customer Reviews
Heavenly
I have owned this CD for years. I still buy it as a gift for friends. It remains one of my all time Christmas favorites. The music is hauntingly beautiful. It melts away the stress that sometimes comes along with the season and helps me remember what the season is all about. Treat yourself and your music loving friends to this great CD.
Winter Dreams by Carlos Nakai
This is one of the most beautiful Christmas CD's ever produced. Although an obscure artist Carlos Nakai always creates an enchanting dreamlike environment for his listeners.
disappointing
I recently discovered Nakai and Eaton, and I enjoy their music greatly, but they are much better at doing their own compositions and improvisations than trying to cover standard melodies. There are some gems on this CD, such as "Lo, How A Rose E'er Blooming", "Silent Night" (sung beautifully in a Navajo translation by a children's choir) and "Coventry Carol", but they tend to be the ones that feature Eaton's stringed instruments, because he can tune his instruments to the orthodox scales of these Christmas tunes. Nakai's flutes, beautiful as they are, often don't match this standard tuning: frequently he sounds a little off-key in the tonal scales that he plays in (which is, truth be told, one of the charms of the instrument). But sometimes his flute is jarringly off-key. I mean, like fingernails on a chalk-board off-key. It's not something he can help; it's the nature of wood flutes. But I'm not sure that they should even have attempted to match these instruments on such standard, familiar tunes.
What I'm going to do with it is rip the tunes I like and add them to one of my easy-listening Christmas CDs (as a Christian I appreciate anyone who honors the holiday), but then this CD is going bye-bye, because I can't bring myself to play it all the way through.
