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'A Classic FM Christmas' - The Ultimate Classical and Jazz Album | 
 enlarge | Artist: Various Artists
Label: Universal Classics
Category: Music
List Price: £16.99
Buy New: £8.97
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 5729
Format: Box Set
Media: Audio CD
Running Time: 139
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.5 x 4.9 x 0.5
UPC: 600753127223
EAN: 0600753127223
ASIN: B001IFZTD4
Release Date: December 1, 2008
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Disc 1
| • | Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas - Katherine Jenkins, Simon Franglen, Jon Bailey, Hugh Martin | | • | O Christmas Tree - International Staff Band of The Salvation Army, Jon Cohen, Dr Stephen Cobb, Peter Graham, Traditional | | • | In The Bleak Midwinter - Blake, Stephanie Benedetti, Andrew Harvey, Nina Foster, Katie Holt, Andy Marshall, Nat Chan, Oliver Baines, Stephen Bowman, Jules Knight, Dominic Tighe, Harold Darke | | • | Oh Holy Night - Jonathan Ansell, Grant Mitchell, Graham Dickson, Dave O'Brien, Traditional | | • | Once in Royal David's City - Robin Barter, David Briggs, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury, Henry John Gauntlett, Chris Hazell, Simon Eadon | | • | Away In A Manger - Aled Jones, English Session Orchestra, Andy Findon, Helen Cole, Robert Prizeman, Ian Tilley, Steve Lowe, Libera, William James Kirkpatrick | | • | Silent Night - Fron Male Voice Choir, Jon Cohen, Phil Da Costa, Ronan Phelan, Al Unsworth, Ed Bainton, Ann Atkinson, Franz Gruber | | • | Laudate Dominum - Lesley Garrett, Tolga Kashif, Simon Hanhart, Christopher Cowie, Brian Thomson, Francois Rive, Alistair Young, Jacqueline Barron, Helen Parker, Sarah Eyden, Claire Henry, Andrew Busher, Gerard O'Beirne, David Porter-Thomas, Simon Grant, Nick Woollage, Joy Mammen, Howard McGill, Ian Cooper, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | | • | Panis Angelicus - Nick Patrick, Russell Watson, Chamber Choir Of St. Catherine's, Bramley, Guildford, William Hayward, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Nick Ingman, Csar Franck | | • | God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen - Chris Hazell, The Choir of King's College, Cambridge, David Briggs, Stephen Cleobury, Anonymous, Simon Eadon | | • | Do You Hear What I Hear? - Ian Tilley, The Choir Boys, Hayley Westenra, Steve Abbott, Mike Ross Trevor, David Adams, fanella barton, John Morton, alison dodds, Joel Hunter, rose redgrave, Louise Williams, Catherine Bradshaw, harriet cawood, alexandra mackenzie, graham mitchell, Thelma Owen, Nicholas Bucknall, julian gale, Dana Marsh, alastair brookshaw, Daniel Jordan, William Unwin, Oliver Hunt, Noel Regney | | • | Past Three a Clock - Nicholas Parker, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Anonymous | | • | Walking in the Air (Theme from 'The Snowman') - Ian Tilley, The Choir Boys, Steve Abbott, Mike Ross Trevor, David Adams, fanella barton, John Morton, alison dodds, Joel Hunter, rose redgrave, harriet cawood, alexandra mackenzie, graham mitchell, Thelma Owen, helen keen, Nancy Ruffer, Helen powell, Nicholas Bucknall, David Fuest, John Whitfield, Wendy Phillips, Michael Thompson, Tony Catterick, Torbjorn Hultmark, Charles Fulbrook, Greg Knowles, Howard Blake | | • | Pie Jesu - All Angels, Ian Tilley, Steve Abbott, Simon Lole, James Fitzpatrick, Bohumil Kotmel, Jan Holzner, Steve Lowe, Andy Fox-Hulme, City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, John Langley, Dick Beetham, Daisy Chute, Melanie Nakhla, Charlotte Ritchie, Laura Wright, John Brunning | | • | White Christmas - Orchestrated by Robert Russell Bennett (+1988) - Bryn Terfel, Philharmonia Orchestra, Paul Daniel, Irving Berlin | | • | Joy To The World - Joan Sutherland, Ray Minshull, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Richard Bonynge, George Frideric Handel, Kenneth Wilkinson | | • | In dulci jubilo (Gesangbuch von Joseph Klug, 14. Jhdt.) - Arr. Robert Lucas de Pearsall (1795-1856) - Choir Of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston, Traditional, Dr. Gerd Ploebsch, Hans-Peter Schweigmann, Charlotte Kriesch, Jrgen Bulgrin, Rainer Hoepfner | | • | Colours Of Christmas - Patrick Hawes | | • | Ges Bambino - Luciano Pavarotti, Ray Minshull, The National Philharmonic Orchestra, Kurt Herbert Adler, Pietro Alessandro Yon, James Lock | | • | Shepherd's Pipe Carol - John Rutter | | • | Auld Lang Syne - Jon Cohen, Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, Iain McKinna, Phil Da Costa, Ray Staff, The Czech Film Orchestra, Cliff Masterson, Traditional |
Disc 2
| • | Christmas Night In Harlem - Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Mitchell Parish, Raymond Scott | | • | Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt, Joan Ellen Javits | | • | A Child Is Born - Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer, Oscar Peterson, Thad Jones | | • | The Christmas Song - Ella Fitzgerald, Robert Wells | | • | Looks Like December - Antonio Carlos Jobim, Chico Buarque | | • | Santa Claus Is Coming To Town - Bill Evans, Creed Taylor, Haven Gillespie, J. Fred Coots | | • | Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong With The Commanders, Steve Allen | | • | Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - Ella Fitzgerald, Norman Granz, Frank Devol Orchestra, Frank DeVol, Johnny Marks | | • | Jingle Bells - Creed Taylor, Jimmy Smith, James Lord Pierpont | | • | Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow - Bob Porter, Joe Williams, Jule Styne | | • | Merry Christmas Baby - Kenny Burrell, Richard Evans, Esmond Edwards, Lou Baxter | | • | 'Zat You, Santa Claus? - Louis Armstrong, Milt Gabler, The Commanders, Jack Fox | | • | Little Girl Blue - Hal Mooney, Nina Simone, Rudy Stevenson, Lisle Atkinson, Bobby Hamilton, Al Shackman, Richard Rodgers | | • | The Christmas Song - Mel Torm, Wally Stott | | • | Here Comes Santa Claus - Ramsey Lewis, Ramsey Lewis Trio, Eldee Young, Red Holt, Ralph Bass, Eugene Autry, Oakley Haldeman | | • | Christmas In New Orleans - Benny Carter & His Orchestra, Louis Armstrong, Joe Van Winkle, Richard M. Sherman | | • | Winter Wonderland - Don Sickler, Shirley Horn, Jesse Davis, Ron Blake, Roy Hargrove, Mark Whitfield, Christian McBride, Stephen Scott, Billy Drummond, Felix Bernard | | • | Christmas Cheer - Abbey Lincoln, Don Sickler, Roy Hargrove, R.B. Lynch | | • | Good Morning Blues - Count Basie & His Orchestra, Jimmy Rushing, Buck Clayton, Eddie Durham | | • | I've Got My Love To Keep Me Warm - Billie Holiday, Charlie Shavers, Tony Scott, Budd Johnson, Billy Taylor, Billy Bauer, Leonard Gaskin, Cozy Cole, Leroy Lovett, Irving Berlin |
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Something for every Christmas mood December 20, 2008
It looks like a bizarre mix: Louis Armstrong (the wonderful " `Zat You, Santa Claus ?") and Russell Watson (Panis Angelicus) on one Christmas album. Classical and jazz together: you probably wouldn't want to listen to them together in one sitting. But as a collection of festive music you wouldn't want to be without at Christmas, this two-CD album really works. I'm not a huge jazz fan, but the selection contains well-known tunes from classic artists - Eartha Kitt (`Santa Baby'), Oscar Peterson (`A Child Is Born') and Nina Simone (`Little Girl Blue') among many others, all sounding sharp and fresh. The classical CD has carols, classical pieces and `modern classics' such as "Walking In The Air", with performances from the likes of All Angels, the Choirboys, King's College Choir and Katherine Jenkins. Over forty tracks in all on the two CDs - excellent value, with something for every Christmas mood.
 'Jingle jazz, jingle all the way' November 29, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
While maybe not the `Ultimate' Christmas Album from Classic FM - they have for many years released a new festive selection and I'm sure this won't be the last - this is certainly one of the most innovative thanks to its combination of traditional classical hymns and a selection of familiar festive music arranged jazz style, one disc being dedicated to each style of music.
The `jazzing up' of Christmas hits is nothing new to the pop music world, and certainly forms part of the recording repertoire of most jazz musicians, but it's rarer to find a combination of the two on one album release of greatest hits, and in this case some truly great, all American, artists. Names like Louis Armstrong, Eartha Kitt, Oscar Peterson, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Count Basie and many more endorse the quality of the jazz versions of familiar `chestnuts' (in the kindest festive sense of the word) such as `Santa Claus is Coming to Town' and `Jingle Bells'.
The Classics too offer a set of tried and trusted favourites, plus a few contemporary songs by Patrick Hawes and John Rutter, and as with the Jazz disc are performed by well established household favourites like Katherine Jenkins, Jonathon Ansell, Aled Jones, Lesley Garrett, Hayley Westenra, All Angels, the great Pavarotti and loads more.
Its great too to see Russell Watson's name on the tracklist and back in the Classic FM `good books', but I guess they could hardly leave him out considering he won the title of `Nation's Favourite Male Singer' in a 2008 listeners poll by the radio station!
An excellent pairing of styles, complementing each other rather than contrasting, and well worth a venture even for those with only a slight interest in jazz music.
Brilliant idea! November 27, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Awesome!!!!
I'm French but I'm a complete fan of U.S Xmas songs and Looooove Jazz, Ella being my fave so finding a Xmas song sung by her, Awesome!
+ I love traditional Xmas Carols too,especially the German ones mind you (I mean nothing beats the original Silent night or Stille Nacht by a German Choir )but hey I'm happy with English Carols too,so what a brilliant idea to combine Traditional and Jazz! Yeepee! :o)
 Could these not be released as seperate CD's? October 24, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I know it always good to try something new, but some people hate Jazz (me included!) and some people hate classical. So is Classic FM not instantly limiting sales but combining both classical and jazz on the 1 boxset? Much better idea to have a Jazz Christmas and a Classical Christmas. Having said that, the classical end looks good, but I won't be buying it because of the jazz disk! I can't really sell a jazz CD that I don't want on its own without the rest of the set!
Well, maybe I will, but I probably won't listen to the Jazz disk!
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