A Majestic Christmas

U.S.A.F. Symphony Orchestra (Artist) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Chordant
• ASIN: B0000CG8CK
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #809,178 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Deck the Halls (Welsh)

2. Medley: A Festival of Carols (O Hearken Ye; All On A Christmas Morning;

3. God Rest You Merry, Gentlemen (English)

4. Sheep May Safely Graze

5. We Three Kings of Orient Are

6. Do You Hear What I Hear?

7. Medley: Christmas Favorites (It's Beginning to Look A lot Like Christma

8. March of the Toys, for orchestra (from "Babes in Toyland")

9. Medley: A Christmas Festival (Joy To The World; Good King Wenceslaus; H

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

2.0 out of 5 stars Great music, but poor mastering, November 28, 2011

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JR (El Dorado, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A Majestic Christmas (Audio CD)

I like Christmas music played by a good orchestra, and this music definitely meets my criteria. I enjoy this music.

However, while playing the music I heard what sounded like noticeable distortion in several places. After doing several sanity checks to make sure it wasn't just my audio system, I extracted the CD onto my computer and examined the waveforms. The music is clearly limited to -3dB, and zooming in on the areas with disortion I can see the flattened tops of some of the waveforms in the distortion areas. I don't know if the music was clipped at some intermediate stage during mixing/mastering, or if someone just set a hard limiter too agressively, but the end result is very unpleasing to listen to.

This distortion isn't noticable in most of the recording (I'm guessing 10-15 seconds total), so if you can ignore those imperfections this is a nice CD. Unfortunately for me, those few seconds of distortion tend to ruin the rest of each track that containing it.