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Media Type: CD
Artist: LIEBERT,OTTMAR
Title: CHRISTMAS + SANTA FE
Street Release Date: 10/17/2000
Domestic
Genre: XMAS VOCAL

Track Listing

1. Santa Dancing/Deck the Halls
2. Celebration/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
3. Holiday Buleria/Greensleeves
4. Dig the Wonderland/Winter Wonderland
5. Snow White/Silent Night
6. Canyon Road on Christmas Eve/Hark the Herald Angels Sing
7. Farolitos on Garcia/It Came upon a Midnight Clear
8. Michelle's Song/The Holly and the Ivy
9. Winter Solstice
10. O Sanctissima/Oh du Fröhliche
11. 3rd Man/O Christmas Tree
12. Peace/I Saw Three Ships
13. Snow Angels/We Wish U a Merry Christmas [4 Kelly]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12233 in Music
• Brand: LIEBERT,OTTMAR
• Released on: 2000-10-17
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

Amazon.com
The innovative virtuoso acoustic guitarist delivers a baker's dozen of Christmas standards that are often amended, appended, and otherwise embellished with memorable second themes. Set against a lively percussion section that gives many songs a distinctively Latin flavor, Liebert's playing here is crisp and light and always imaginative. His version of "Silent Night" is touched deftly by a quieting theme called "Snow White," while "Hark the Herald Angels Sing" emerges out of a lovely fragment called "Canyon Road on Christmas Eve." "Dig the Wonderland/Winter Wonderland" combines the right amount of wintry playfulness and seasonal humor to warm even the stodgiest heart. With real gusto and a sublime amount of imagination, Liebert has made the kind of cool Christmas record you can play all year. --Martin Keller

Customer Reviews

Ottmar has done it again!
Ottmar has done it again! His first Christmas CD is my favorite and with this new CD, I have two favorites! If you are looking for a new Christmas CD, this is the CD to get. The Spanish influence in the music really warms things up just like a fireplace on a cold winters evening.

BEAUTY & SERENITY
I first heard this album playing in a Washington DC bookshop around Thanksgiving time. I immediately put it on my Amazon.com wish list and received it a few days before the holiday. I wish now that I'd have purchased it in Washington, since it is the kind of album that one can play over and over and it only gets better and more interesting with each repeat. I'd never before heard of Ottmar Liebert, but now wish to investigate his other albums. The malls are filled with junked-up Christmas songs, but Liebert's arrangements of traditional favorites such as "I Saw 3 Ships" or "The Holly & The Ivy" or "Silent Night" are filled with beauty and serenity--qualities sadly missing from the way we celebrate Christmas in the year 2000. This is, indeed, not music for an elevator or a mall; it is music to be shared with a loved one in front of a roaring fire.

Spare and Lovely Renderings of Christmas in the Desert
The first track or two may seem a bit canned and mechanized, but the CD soon yields to the most gentle and beautiful guitar renderings of some favorite Christmas songs. The gentle melodies, the beautiful guitar themes, the Latin percussion and the Mexican horns soothe your soul and remind you of the beauty of the Southwest . . . you find yourself thinking about mountains, desert, firelight, travelers, caves and mangers. . .