The Sound of Christmas

The Trapp Family | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 1, 2000)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Delta
• ASIN: B000001VP1
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #219,561 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Deck the Halls (Welsh) [English Carol]

2. Es ist ein' Ros' entsprungen [German Carol]

3. Hirten, wachet auf! [Tyrolean Carol]

4. Zu Bethlehem geboren (Geistlicher Psalter, Köln 1638) [German Religious

5. la nanita nana, carol (Spanish) [Spanish Carol]

6. Il est né, le divin enfant (French) [French Carol]

7. La canzone di Natale [Italian Carol]

8. Es hat sich halt eröffnet [Tyrolean Carol]

9. Jesus, Jesus, Rest Your Head (American) [Appalachian Mountains Carol]

10. Shepherds come a-running [Polish Carol]

11. Lobt Gott ihr Christen alle zugleich, a 4 [German Carol]

12. Es wird schon gleich dumpa (The Twilight Is Falling) (Austrian) [Austri

13. Nu ar det Jul igen (Sweden) [Swedish Dance Carol]

14. O Come Little Children (Ihr Kinderlein kommet) [German Carol]

15. Der Scheibendudler [Alpine Carol/yodel]

16. The Little Drummer Boy (Carol of the Drum), carol [Czech Carol]

17. Deine Wangelen [Austrian Carol]

18. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night) [German Carol]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

40 of 40 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A welcome memento for the Trapp Family, but ...., September 7, 2000

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John Austin "[e-mail]" (Kangaroo Ground, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sound of Christmas (Audio CD)

Before they disbanded in the 1950s, the Trapp Family Choir made a series of recordings on the Festival label. Years of singing together and touring had brought their work to a much higher level of performance than can be heard in the recordings they made soon after they arrived in the USA in 1939. From these 1950s recordings, a selection of Christmas carols, issued in 1992 on this CD, is all that is currently available. Sadly, I cannot report that this issue will do much to perpetuate or enhance the family's reputation. A process of dubbing has reduced the original sound quality and introduced an audible hum, defects I don't hear when I replay the items as they originally appeared on LPs. While hoping for better reissues, I meanwhile welcome this extremely inexpensive 37 minute memento. The delightful carols are arranged by the choir's conductor, Dr Franz Wasner. A verse of the well-known "Silent Night", in its original form, is sung first in German, then in English, and then hummed.

5.0 out of 5 stars They are really great!, November 26, 2004

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J. Ourada "trackdistancerunner" (California) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Sound of Christmas (Audio CD)

The von Trapp's have such wonderfully blended voices and this CD just shows that. Silent Night is the most beautiful version I have ever heard in my life. There singing is so fresh, original and different then most music today!