I'm going to divide my Favorite Five Holiday Music choices into two entries. I'll come back later with individual songs, but tonight I want to focus on albums in general.
I try to treat myself to a new holiday album each year. This year it was David Archuleta. (and no, I voted for David Cook when they competed on American Idol) I enjoy the new ones, but there are a few that get pulled out every year. The first two listed are my absolute favorites.
1. Hallmark presents The Tradition of Christmas - A collection featuring Harry Belafonte, Jennifer Warnes, The American Boychoir, and The London Symphony Orchestra.
2. Majesty & Wonder, an instrumental Christmas by Phil Keaggy with the London Festival Orchestra.
3. Aaron Neville's Soulful Christmas
4. Classical Christmas - A CD which includes selections from Handel's Messiah as well as pieces from Mozart, Corelli, Bach, and Vejvanovsky.
5. The Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky
- Kelly
- Making my way through the ups and downs of life, holding fast to my favorite Bible verse: "For we walk by faith, not by sight." ~2 Corinthians 5:7. I began blogging in earnest at Yahoo360 on October 24, 2005. (briefly using LiveJournal and blog-city prior to that) In June 2008 I moved to Blogger. I'm now at WordPress where I hope to remain.
4 comments:
A really hard one that Kelly. Now that you have mentioned it, we only have one Christmas album with a selection of tunes on it, all of them song by popular artists. However as a child I can remember my mam had a Jim Reeves Christmas album and my nana, an Elvis Christmas album.
1. Mannheim Steam Roller Christmas, 1984
2. Elvis Christmas Album, 1957
3. Mariah Carey, "Merry Christmas"
4. Kenny G "Miracles" Album
5. Josh Groben's "Noel"
Il Divo "The Christmas Collection"
Celine "These are Special Times"
Charlotte Church "Dream a Dream"
Andrea Bocelli "Sogno"
Three Tenors Christmas (Jose Carreras, Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti)
Like you - Neville's Soulful Christmas.
Like Marion - Groban's Noel
Elvis Presley - Blue Christmas
Jewel - Joy: A Holiday Collection
Emmylou Harris - Light of the Stable
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