Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Angel Came Down
2. O' Come All Ye Faithful/O' Holy Night [Instrumental]
3. Star to Follow
4. First Snow [Instrumental]
5. Silent Nutcracker [Instrumental]
6. Mad Russian's Christmas [Instrumental]
7. Prince of Peace
8. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 [Instrumental]
9. Good King Joy
10. Ornament
11. First Noel [Instrumental]
12. Old City Bar
13. Promises to Keep
14. This Christmas Day
15. Angel Returned
16. O' Holy Night
17. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Disc 2:

1. Ghosts of Christmas Eve
2. Boughs of Holly [Instrumental]
3. World That She Sees
4. World That He Sees
5. Midnight Christmas Eve [Instrumental]
6. March of the Kings/Hark the Herald Angel [Instrumental]
7. Three Kings and I (What Really Happened)
8. Christmas Canon
9. Joy/Angels We Have Heard on High
10. Find Our Way Home
11. Appalachian Snowfall [Instrumental]
12. Music Box
13. Snow Came Down
14. Christmas in the Air
15. Dream Child (A Christmas Dream)
16. Angel's Share
17. Music Box Blues

Disc 3:

1. Faith Noel
2. Lost Christmas Eve
3. Christmas Dreams
4. Wizards in Winter
5. Remember
6. Anno Domine
7. Christmas Concerto
8. Queen of the Winter Night
9. Christmas Nights in Blue
10. Christmas Jazz
11. Christmas Jam
12. Siberian Sleigh Ride
13. What Is Christmas?
14. For the Sake of Our Brother
15. Wisdom of Snow
16. Wish Liszt
17. Back to a Reason, Pt. 2
18. Christmas Bells, Carousels & Time
19. What Child Is This?
20. O' Come Alll Ye Faithful
21. Christmas Canon Rock
22. Different Wings
23. Midnight Clear

Disc 4:

1. O' Come All Ye Faithful/O' Holy Night [*]
2. Good King Joy [*]
3. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [*]
4. Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) [*]
5. Christmas Canon [*]
6. O' Holy Night [*]
7. Music Box Blues [*]
8. Promises to Keep [*]
9. This Christmas Day [*]
10. First Snow [*]
11. Promises to Keep [DVD]
12. This Christmas Day [DVD]
13. First Snow [DVD]

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #12319 in Music
• Released on: 2004-11-02
• Number of discs: 4
• Format: Box set

Album Description
Hard rock producer Paul O'Neill, renowned for his work with Aerosmith and Savatage, teamed with the latter band's Jon Oliva to create Trans-Siberian Orchestra, an inspired fusion of classical music and rock-opera pageantry. Their first two releases are visionary and timeless Christmas-themed concept albums, spotlighting lead guitars and classical string sections alike, and they became instant contemporary holiday classics. 2004's The Lost Christmas Eve, which completes their symphonic rock Yuletide triology, underscores Billboard's recent comment that TSO "seems to be turning into a Christmas tradition."

Customer Reviews

Faith Noel
Hard rock. Christmas.

These simply don't seem to go together. After all, Christmas music is usually fluffy, syrupy stuff about decking the halls, trimming the tree, and spending time with your family, et cetera. They play it in malls, and after a few hundred chirrupy renditions of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," you're ready to gnaw the tinsel off the walls.

But Trans-Siberian Orchestra breaks all the rules of Christmas music. Producer Paul O'Neill and Jon Oliva teamed up to create this trilogy of hard-rock, orchestral Christmas albums, which bring back the splendour and beauty that every Christmas album should have, but few do.

The three albums -- "Christmas Eve and Other Stories," "The Christmas Attic" and "The Lost Christmas Eve" -- are each a self-contained story, with a little booklet that tells the story that each song accompanies. These stories almost border on goop (mentally challenged children, sad angels, loneliness on Christmas) but never goes over the border. It sounds cliched, but occasionally it will wring a tear from your eye.

If it were just about hard-rock carols, this would be interesting but not really worthwhile. But there is a surprising innocence and awe in this music. No, it probably WON'T change your life, but it is truly unique. O'Neill and Oliva don't shy away from religious stories, and the baroque flavour of their arrangements gives it the feel of something timeless that was only recently dug up.

It also pushes some musical boundaries -- it's not truly prog, metal, classical, new age, or hard-rock. Instead, it mixes roiling guitars with sparkling bells, angelic vocals with bombastic fury, classical orchestra with languid basslines. It could use a bit less of the power-metal vibe, but once you get used to it, it shouldn't be a problem.

Christmas music has become stale over the years, with singers recycling the same old bland tunes. But Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Trilogy" brings vibrancy, energy, and a kind of rockin' sweetness back into holiday music. Enchanting.

Great Set
This set is the one to buy if you like Trans-Siberian Orchestra(TSO). My only complaint is that Amazon doesn't label the DVD that comes with it, they just call it an extra DVD, I thought it'd have behind-the-scenes info and stuff like that, so I bought TSO's DVD movie, The Ghost Of Christmas Eve, the only problem with that is, the "extra DVD" in this trilogy is in fact The Ghost Of Christmas Eve. So, if you, like me, want to buy all the discs that TSO has out, then don't buy The Ghost Of Christmas Eve separately, it comes with this trilogy.

This is truly AWESOME!!
This 3 cd 1 dvd set is well worth the money.The music is just so very good,it seems like it would be as if God himself directed this prodution.The power, passion and musical talents of all these people is astounding.It brings the true message of Christmas front and center although it is such good music it could be listened to year round.Buy this you will like it, I sure have.