Customer Reviews

Windham Hill Holiday Guitar Collection

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4 star:		(1)
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Buyer beware: this is indeed a new collection, although of material that has been previously released by Windham Hill on the "Solstice" and/or "Christmas" series. It certainly would be disappointing and a money waste to make the purchase expecting newly published material.

That being said, this is an excellent sampling of Windham Hill artists and performances within a single CD. The playlist is all instrumental guitar (amplified or acoustic) and represents a wide array of song titles. A perfect accompaniment for mellow mood holidays!

I have collected every Windham Hill Christmas album back to Winter's Solstice I. As with every holiday season, I looked forward to Windham Hill's latest collection. But this year's version is a total ripoff. It is merely a recylced collection of songs from previous Windham Hill Christmas CD's that I already own. Even though the cover says "Windham Hill presents a new collection of timeless Christmas favorites," every song was on a previous Christmas or Winter's Solstice CD. If Windham Hill had practiced truth in advertising I would have never forked out $19 for a bunch of songs I already have!!! This rating only reflects my anger at getting ripped off, the music is 5 stars.

Music's great but the songs are old. If you bought this cd and have the other ones too then hey, you have a perfect xmas present for your loved one! No need to be angry... and anyway you get the cream of the tracks from previous compilations in one place now, all in the row.

The music is superlative. You will not find better Christmas music anywhere. Well, I take it back...you WILL find the SAME tracks on all the old Windham Hill Christmas and Winter Solstice Collections. If you don't have those, or have no interest in them, then this is the CD for you. Otherwise, buy all the others, because the piano and other instrumentalists are exquisite as well. I STRONGLY urge you to pick up a copy of Windham Hill's Guitars (and other Stringed Things) A Windham Hill Christmas Collection. The music is all unbelieveably awesome, and it appears to be out of print now. A few copies are left for a few dollars, and I'm just glad I have it saved in iTunes so I don't have to worry about scratching my overused CDs anymore!

Yes the majority of the music is on other works and the company should have informed the consumer. I do however like having all the great music pieces on one cd. Now you don't have to fish around your collection to play the tracks that you like. All the tracks are great. If your a Solstice fan like i am you'll love it. I do believe that there are some tracks that were not on any of the other cds. Great Christmas / holiday music. There are no vocals on this cd yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If you want a great CD to calm you during the rush of the holidays then this is the only one you will need. Grab a cup of coffee, tea, or a beer and sit back and relax while listing to this soothing guitar. This CD would work well for background music at a holiday evening dinner.

The acoustic Christmas music on this album is very smooth and soothing. Due to the guitarists' subtle improvisations in some of the tracks (any improv. is not overdone), some of the Christmas songs could be played throughout the winter season as well. This album is hands-down my favorite instrumental Christmas CD. I highly recommend Windham Hill Holiday Guitar Collection.

Windham Hill never disappoints. I have been listening to their works for at least 20 years and I have never been let down. This CD was no exception. My Christmas guests this year, 2011, all asked where they could buy a copy.

Enjoyable, soothing Christmas music. I especially love "God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman." I would purchase this disc again.

This is one of our favorites to play for the holidays! Great for either a holiday party or just sitting with the family for dinner!