'Round The Christmas Tree

Paragon Ragtime Orchestra | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 8, 2001)
• Original Release Date: October 8, 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• ASIN: B00005TSKX
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #276,788 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Nutcracker Rag: A Sweet Travesty on Tchaikovsky

2. Variations on "Oh Tannenbaum"

3. The Reindeer Rag

4. The Night Before Christmas

5. Mr. Santa Claus, Don't Forget Me

6. The Lily Queen Rag

7. Hallelujah (Chorus) Trombone

8. Selections from "Babes in Toyland"

9. The Tishomingo Blues

10. Please Let Me Sleep

11. Parade of the Tin Soldiers

12. The Snow Baby

13. Mrs. Hooligan's Christmas Cake

14. 'Round the Christmas Tree: Grand Yuletide Fantasia

15. Nutcracker Rag (reprise)

Editorial Reviews

'Round The Christmas Tree [Audio CD] Paragon Ragtime Orchestra

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Christmas Delight, December 18, 2001

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This review is from: 'Round The Christmas Tree (Audio CD)

This recording is truly a delight for the holidays. It's refreshing to hear music that's you don't hear on the radio during the Christmas season. The selections are delightful. The orchestra sounds superb, the singing and the piano playing add a special charm to this recording, and the songs bring back memories of long ago. This is a must have for your Christmas CD collection.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Traditional And I mean TRADITIONAL Xmas Music, December 17, 2007

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Wade J. Sheeler "Rarities McGee" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 'Round The Christmas Tree (Audio CD)

If you love Ragtime, and not just piano versions of the classic format, but full orchestras, you will enjoy Paragon Ragtime's Christmas album. It very successfully captures that turn-of-the-century feel with music that straddles the fence between out and out classical music and ragtime, which was battling for mainstream acceptance in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. So if sopranoes singing non-secular music is not your thing, you may want to skip a few tracks. Some tunes are long lost traditionals that will help complete your rare christmas music collection if that is your inclination.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Opera and Ragtime, January 10, 2007

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MusicBuff "TP" (KS United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: 'Round The Christmas Tree (Audio CD)

This CD falls somewhere between opera and rag time. I love rag time and I love some opera...what I wasn't expecting was the opera part. It is nice to hear something different that you aren't hearing constantly on holiday radio stations, but don't expect this to be an instrummental album.