Customer Reviews

Celebration: Christmas Fanfares & Carols

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Christmas Fanfares and Carols is an exciting collection of superb coral music for the Christmas season. Not just a collection of the run of the mill carols, this collection includes spirituals, old english carols, and some moving contemporary pieces sung with the marvelous choral style of the BBC Welsh Chorus. I first heard the album on WQED in Pittsburgh several years ago, and have been in love with this Christmas album ever since.

This is the CD you want to play when family is gathered around. It is beautiful, inspiring, peaceful. It's in perpetual rotation throughout the Christmas season at our house.

What more can I say! We have enjoyed this album for several years and would HIGHLY recommend it for all who enjoy traditional Christmas music.

In case you didn't read the top of the questionaire I said "This is one of the best collections of music I've ever heard." I love how you have contemporary with classical, that's very in right now, and I think most of us music lovers feel the same way.

Thank you, .JB.

What more can I say! We have enjoyed this album for several years and would HIGHLY recommend it for all who enjoy traditional Christmas music.

I ordered this CD after seeing a video of Bryn Terfel performing Tua Bethlehem Dref on a classical music cable channel. The carol, as he performed it, was stunning. On this CD, it's performed by a choir.

Speaking as an American listener, I do not like spirituals or folk music when it's "gussied-up" and performed by very highly-trained choirs. The spoken-word segments of the CD also left me flat, as did other arcane carols that were rather lacrymose.

I personally would not recommend this CD to anyone who was not Welsh or British (because I assume the disparity between my disappointment and others' raves may have to do with ethnicity).