1 Little Drummer Boy - Davis, Katherine [2
2 Hopeful - Manring, Michael
3 The Christmas Song - Torme, Mel
4 Veni Emmanuel - Traditional
5 Christmas Bells - Gorka, John
6 Lullay, Lully - Traditional
7 Trepak [The Nutcracker Suite] - Tchaikovsky, Pyotr
8 Of the Father's Love Begotten - Traditional
9 Coventry Carol - Traditional
10 Sleepers, Awake [Cantata #140 Wachet Auf] - Bach, J.S
11 Snow Is Lightly Falling - NiDhomhnaill, Maire
12 Pavane [The Capriol Suites] - Warlock, Peter
13 In the Bleak Midwiner - Fraser, Ian
14 In Dulci Jubilo (Good Christian Men Rejoice) - Bach, J.S
15 Earth Abides - Aaberg, Philip

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 Album Rating: (1 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: This seller was not being truthful when he listed his product as "very good." The CD I purchased from him had tears in the jacket. The case was also broken. I am very dissatisfied with his service.

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 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

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Best of the Bunch

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: My family and I love all of the Winter Solstice cds but far and away III is the best of the bunch. Songs like "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "Snow is Lightly Falling" are so simple and haunting and stir a soul-recognition of this time of year that few other songs can match. We start playing it in late November and continue right thru to early spring. We will have to replace it soon as we are wearing it out. I cannot imagine December without it.

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 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: This mixture of instrumentals and vocal selections is a great addition to any Christmas collection. Novel arrangements of old favorites, and the inclusion of some very unfamiliar works make this a welcome change from the old chestnuts. Some of the less favorable reviews here seem to stem from the inclusion of overtly Christmas songs, not from any failing of the performances themselves.

One quibble: the "Pavane" (track 12) is not composed by Liz Story, but is a Renaissance/early-Baroque piece (Sweelinck? Froberger?).

Five songs (three vocals and two instrumentals) make this the "best of the best" of the series.

 Album Rating: (5 of 5 stars)

Review Comments: "Christmas Bells" by John Gorka, Barbara Higbie's "Lullay, Lully" and "In The Bleak Midwinter" by Pierce Pettis are three of the most heartfelt Christmas songs/carols I have ever heard on record. Add to them Tim Story's rendition of "Of The Father's Love Begotten" and Paul McCandless' arrangement of "Coventry Carol" and, in my opinion, this is the best of the original six "A Winter's Solstice" recordings.