Product Description

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Genre: Christmas Music
Media Format: Compact Disk
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Release Date: 9-SEP-1997

Track Listing

1. Angels We Have Heard on High
2. Chip's Intro
3. Christmas Lullaby
4. Pat-A-Pan
5. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
6. Peces en el Rio
7. Joy to the World
8. Gagliarda
9. In Dulci Jubilo
10. Wassail, Wassail
11. Carol of the Birds
12. I Saw Three Ships
13. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
14. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
15. Stille Nacht
16. Going to Another Place

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4634 in Music
• Brand: MANNHEIM STEAMROLLER
• Released on: 1997-10-14
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Live
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Customer Reviews

Mannheim Steamroller brings nothing new to the table.
If you do not already own a Mannheim Steamroller Christmas CD, this is a fair compilation of music released on Mannheim's previous recordings of Christmas music. However, the tracks sound virtually the same as their earlier Christmas CD's, the only difference being the inclusion of audience applause. My recommendation is to purchase any of the previously released Christmas CD's by Mannheim Steamroller for a more satisfying listening experience.

"Best of Steamroller Christmas"
This album contains live recordings of songs from all their Christmas albums so far. I picked this up a couple of days ago, and cannot get it out of my head (or my CD player) yet! As an added bonus, it has sounds that they use live for some of the tracks (explosions in Pat a Pan) which are not on the studio recordings. If you have no other Steamroller Christmas albums, get this one. If you have them all, get this one anyway- it makes a nice addition to the others.

Christmas music you could play any year round
This was my first experience with this group which I bought in a used bargin bin.

Frankly I was expecting some kind of cliched interpretation of xmas songs - the kind ussually advertised on TV during November to December and played in stores - meaning it would only be good to be played once a year at Christmas day.

What a surprise! On most of these songs; you can only barely tell that it is xmas songs being played with light touches of electronica with a strong emphasis of flutes, panpipes, recorders and other medieval instrumemtation thrown into the mix; thus sound very non seasonal therefore making it Christmas music you could play all year round

It could be said that this is the type of Christmas music a progressive rock band like Jethro Tull, Happy the Man, Camel etc would make.

Thus a more delightful suprise given that I thought it would sound something more ambientlike Yanni.

Given this, yours truly will checkout more of Steamroller's recordings and welcomes any suggestions of Steamroller recordings exhibiting their more progressive side.

For a Christmas recording that is non cliched and has the ability to be played all year round; it gets a 10/10