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Christmas Album: Original Masters

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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.

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!

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!

This is an album of the familiar classical German Christmas recordings. Many of the recordings were from 1950s time frame and reflect the performance stile of that day. It is quality product. It also has the nice surprise of a second CD!

Wonderful compiliation...a variety of old traditional German music as well as classics. A great bargain for the price.

Don't be put off by the idea that this is German Christmas music. The range of songs, vocals and instrumentals is so wide you will find something for everyone's classical taste in this compilation. Many of these songs you have likely heard, not knowing they were originally in another language. Beautiful female vocals and choirs bring music make this a very relaxing listening experience in the holiday season.

Lots of music for the money-- a great gift for a hard to buy for uncle.

The CD was great. The quality is wonderful and the songs selected for the album are all the best German classics. However, the songs are very slow so the album does better as background music rather than something you can sing along with around the Christmas tree.