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From the million selling album that started a revolution. The Hampton String Quartet's first statement of a new crossover genre. This is the original CD, now re-released by Mona Lisa Sound, Inc. 10 Christmas favorites.

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A Classic and must have for any collection. --Mona Lisa Sound

We play this continuously every Christmas - and I mean continuously. --John Reed

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  • Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
  • Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.88 x 5.59 x 0.47 inches; 3.25 ounces
  • Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ RCA Legacy
  • Date First Available ‏ : ‎ September 30, 2006
  • Label ‏ : ‎ RCA Legacy
  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B000003EWF
  • Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 1
  • Customer Reviews:
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Reviewed in the United States on January 3, 2024
I really like the selection of songs on this CD. It was delivered as promised.
Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2006
My parents picked up this recording when I was a child and it became for me the quintessential Christmas music. Several years after I moved out on my own I begged them for the tape to make a copy (shh, don't tell) and to my horror discovered that it had been lost. I moped for years and spent quite a bit of time trying to track it down to no avail. Then I discovered it here on Amazon and have been made happy again. It is such a refreshing change from traditional Christmas music (which I also love) and even as I write this review in August, the tunes play in my mind. Get this CD and you won't regret it--I promise. This is the first and probably only review I'll ever make and it's all in honor of my favorite CD in my collection.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2021
An outstanding idea, way past it's time. An excellent addition to anyone's
Christmas music selections!
Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2020
Arrived well packaged and on time. As described. Played fine!
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2018
The creators for this music were genius. How they could bring Mozart's type of music into the Christmas songs was a pure delight to listen to.
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Reviewed in the United States on April 30, 2015
I have enjoyed this CD since it was originally distributed. I continue to buy them as gifts because it is THE best Christmas CD I've ever heard!
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2008
It's probably as hard to listen to this CD objectively as it was to write and perform objectively!

In short, what it is - or at least is intended to be - is a series of musically-meaningful compositions, scored for string quartet, whose underlying thematic material just happens to be certain famous Christmas melodies. That is, several skilled arrangers took Christmas songs for thematic material, and composed "serious" string quartets around them. So it's somewhat like, for example, Handel composing the "Harmonious Blacksmith" around a theme he heard a blacksmith whistling, and Dvorak composing the Moravian Duets around Czech folksongs, and so forth, except that the melodies are probably a lot more familiar to most of us!

As you can undoubtedly imagine though, when you're listening to it, it's easy to lose sight of the "serious" musical value, or not, of these arrangements, given the obvious non-seriousness of the fact that the melody they're building that fugue upon is "Do You Hear What I Hear?"! So it's easy to conclude that despite having a serious overall feel to them, they're actually just intended as "musical jokes."

I should be careful with the word "serious," though. It's fundamentally intended as light-hearted music: basically Divertimenti, but not musical jokes. It's clearly not like Mozart's "Ein Musikalische Spass," where it's really obvious that the treatment of the material is masterfully done badly for humorous effect. These give me the impression of at least of intending to be skillfully-composed and -performed musical treatments of perhaps way-too-familiar thematic material. Of course it's also clear that this well-done-by-intent musical treatment is also intended to be light and fun. However, I don't think they're fundamentally intended to be funny, as such, although they sometimes seem that way.

So, the conclusion I've drawn from listening to it a couple times, is that whether or not they're intended as serious compositions isn't what I should be focusing on. If I want to listen to them for pure musical value that's fine, but if the thematic material makes me laugh, that's fine too.

So then, the question is whether they have good musical value independent of the thematic basis. In short, I'd say, that some are better done in that regard than others, but I'd say that they're worthwhile listening to whenever the mood is right. And it's certainly an amusing fun stunt to write, and listen to, this sort of music.
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Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2013
This is our second CD of this and our 4th owning of this recording. We wear them out! It is by far one of our favorite Christmas recordings ever.