|
|
|
|
| Keyword Search: John Eliot Gardiner |
|
|
| HomeKeyword Search: John Eliot Gardiner |
|
|  | | | Customer Reviews: | | | Average Customer Review:
Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 FA LA LA LA LA... Jul 01, 2007
The McGarrigle sisters are so listenable but difficult to find recordings for. This one is a perfect companion piece to the holidays with an assortment of artists contributing. Garrison Keillor would be proud.
inspired Feb 09, 2007
Love this album. It's beautiful holiday music for discerning music fans. Songs are original, traditional, moving, humourous and in all, very satisfying.
 Wonderful. . .mostly Dec 01, 2006
I love Kate and Anna McGarrigle. They are simply the best songwriters and musicians around--always original, offbeat but traditional at the same time, and songwriters of amazingly good songs. There are no singers like them.
This album starts out great. The first five tracks are terrific. . .the first two--The Seven Joys of Mary and Old Waits Carol are very religious and Catholic. Emmylou Harris's song is good (I would rather hear Kate and Anna sing it, though) and Il est ne is pure Kate and Anna, wonderful. Rufus sings the fifth song, and he is a terrific musician and singer.
Then the album careens off track. Rebel Jesus sounds great but doesn't feel very much like Christmas. The song's lyrics are that of a Che Guevera type Jesus and comes across as a dinosaur 1960's song--out of place on a Christmas album.
Then comes the song Counting Stars. It is narrated by a guy complaining he got drunk and got into a fight with a jock. I'm with the other reviewer: this narrating of songs is a bad trend. It was tried in La Vache Qui Pleure and was out of place. Here it is completely out of place. The song is funny, I must admit, and reminds me for some reason of Star Cab Company in Love Over and Over, but it just doesn't work on a Christmas album.
The album finally gets back on track with the last five songs, a nice song by Rufus called Spotlight on Christmas through Blue Christmas sung by the great Chaim Tannenbaum, who has sung on most of the McGarrigle albums going back to the 1970's. Overall, I really like the album, and if you are a Kate and Anna fan, definitely get it. One final note: Some people complained about the sound quality; to me the quality is fine. Final plus: Great visual design for the album. Lots of skiing and sleighing pictures of various members of the family. It really does put you in the mood for Christmas.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Incorrect sound clips/titles Dec 28, 2005
Simply a wonderful Christmas CD and quite interesting, especially Rufus and Martha. If you can get past the mish mash of incorrect sound clips/titles in this Amazon listing, buy the CD. You'll be happy you did.
4 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 Uneven Dec 27, 2005
I bought this based on sampling Rebel Jesus and Il Est Ne. Both are lovely, moving pieces. But they don't justify the price of the CD. Some cuts are so poorly recorded the words are unintelligible. Rufus shows off his adenoidal whine way too often. Emmylou Harris, whose voice I normally love, sings O Little Town of Bethlehem entirely through her nose. And why o why did they think we wanted to hear a spoken ramble about getting drunk and fighting on Christmas? I think they phoned this in.
|
| |
|
|
|
|
|
|
![Up (4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51V%2Beipy8-L._SL75_.jpg "Up (4 Disc Combo Pack with Digital Copy and DVD) [Blu-ray]")
![Across the Universe [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T24FuHPEL._SL75_.jpg "Across the Universe [Blu-ray]")
![Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51F27VzUl%2BL._SL75_.jpg "Underworld Trilogy (Underworld / Underworld: Evolution / Underworld: Rise of the Lycans) [Blu-ray]")
![Shakira: Oral Fixation Tour [Blu-ray]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RQUEopdlL._SL75_.jpg "Shakira: Oral Fixation Tour [Blu-ray]")
