Christmas Album: Original Masters

Hermann Prey (Performer), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (Performer), Johann Sebastian Bach (Composer), Christmas Traditional (Composer), Anonymous (Composer), John Francis Wade (Composer), German Traditional (Composer), Franz Xaver Gruber (Composer), George Frederick Handel (Composer), Arcangelo Corelli (Composer), Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart (Composer), Max Reger (Composer), Friedrich Mergner (Composer), Peter Cornelius (Composer), Valentin Schumann (Composer), Fritz Lehmann (Conductor), Kurt Gaebel (Conductor), Fritz Neumeyer (Conductor), Karl Richter (Conductor), August Wenzinger (Conductor) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Hermann Prey, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
• Conductor: Fritz Lehmann, Kurt Gaebel, Fritz Neumeyer, Karl Richter, August Wenzinger
• Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach, Christmas Traditional, Anonymous, John Francis Wade, German Traditional, et al.
• Audio CD (October 28, 2003)
• SPARS Code: ADD
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Deutsche Grammophon
• ASIN: B0000AP6HJ
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #120,370 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)
  • #27 in Music > Classical > Historical Periods > Modern, 20th, & 21st Century > Composers > Reger, Max

Customer Reviews

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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great music and an astonishing amount of it!, February 27, 2006

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Doug - Haydn Fan (California) - See all my reviews
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The business folks at DG must have a soft spot for Christmas music, probably leftover goodwill from growing up with caroling in the snow. Certainly the German language nations seem to have excelled in producing a wealth of Christmas tunes, jingles, chorales, hymns, and rounds. This compliation is a two CD set of very good to great singers and performers who are quite to the manor born, or maybe I should say manger.
The easy way to decide if two hours of German Xmas gemutlichkeit is for you is simply to listen to the enormous selections on Amazon's sound sampler.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Classic Christmas / holiday performances, August 22, 2007

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Evan M. Malin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Christmas Album: Original Masters (Audio CD)

This set is a truly amazing find! Vintage 1950's and 1960's German performances of Christmas and traditional holiday music. This contains an awesome range of artists, from Maria Stader, Fritz Wunderlich and Herman Prey, Gundula Janowitz, Irmgard Seefried, to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with music ranging from excerpts from Handel's Messiah to traditional christmas carols. Instrumental and choral performances balance out the collection. Documentation is well-written, and the sound is excellent high-fidelity mono and stereo. Very recommendable!

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A sugar frosty Christmas, January 7, 2010

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korak (Pal-ul-don, Africa) - See all my reviews

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This box set is so excellent. It is as sugar sweet as a big ball of cotton candy. You will be all set for an old-school Deutsche Grammophon vintage Christmas--

ALL YEAR LONG!