Choral Christmas

Cusco | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 26, 1995)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Higher Octave
• ASIN: B000003Z1I
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette  | 
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #106,836 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. There Comes a Vessel Laden/In Dulci Jubilo

2. Silent Night

3. Jesus Stays My Joy

4. Lo, How a Rose

5. Canon

6. From Heaven Above

7. Christ the Lord Is Born Today

8. Swan Lake/The Nutcracker

9. Soon It Will Be Night (Es Wird Scho Glei Dumpa)

10. Shepherd's Christmas Symphonia

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Christmas album for year round listening, November 19, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Choral Christmas (Audio CD)

This album is a treasure of music which is in season throughout the entire year. The combination of human chorals blended with breathtaking instruments used to produce ancient favorite carols and hymns provides an experience that will be repeated long after the the Christmas tree comes down. Warning, this album will replace your favorite Christmas album.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is an Experience....Not just a CD, November 21, 2005

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A. Sloan (Cary, NC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Choral Christmas (Audio CD)

If you are looking for a Christmas CD that treats the holiday with the reverence it deserves and very seldom gets, then stop looking for Christmas music...this is the one! This is the only Cusco album that I own and I think I just took a chance on purchasing it, but I've not regretted it for a moment. The sound is very reminiscent of the cover art on the CD itself; calming and soothing. It's so beautiful that it takes my breath away at times. I find that the best time to TAKE IT IN is after everyone has gone to bed on Christmas Eve; the house is bathed in stillness and the room is glowing with the Christmas decorations and candlelight. (I say take it in because this is an experience more than it is Christmas music.) I find myself looking out of the frosty windows staring at the crystal clear night stars; meditating and thinking what a beautiful gift the Christ Child is to us all. This music evokes those feelings effortlessly and completely stirs the soul with its mix of choral and instrumental arrangements. It brings you to the true meaning of the Holiday rather than sweep you away with commercialism. If this is where you think you'd like to be this Christmas then you need this CD.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I found my wedding song!, July 22, 2005

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GulfstreamGuy (Cabot, AR USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Choral Christmas (Audio CD)

I purchased this CD after hearing just the SAMPLE of "Canon" (Track 5) on CDnow because at the time I was searching for the perfect version of "Canon in D" to be played at my wedding. I found it here and more! I probably listened to 40 or so versions of this song and I immediately stopped searching once I heard Cusco's arrangement. It was breathtaking! All the songs on this CD contain a peaceful spirituality unlike any other Christmas CD I have heard before. Also, the picture on the cover made me wish I was right there at the Wallfahtskirche Maria Gern in Bavaria celebrating the Christmas holidays.