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Exclusive Satisfaction Rating: 90% Based on 95 reviews.
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Search eBay for this item. Release Date: September 22, 1998
Artist: The Carpenters
Package Dimensions (in inches): 0.4 x 5.6 x 4.9
Package Weight: 0.2 pounds
Other Details
Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 0731454060325
Label: A&M
Manufacturer: A&M
MPN: 540603
Number Of Discs: 2
Publisher: A&M
Studio: A&M
UPC: 731454060325
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Editorial/Description:Album Details: Digitally Remastered Double CD Collection featuring 1978's 'christmas Portrait' Backed with 1984's 'an Old Fashioned Christmas'. Amazon.com: Rainy days and Mondays always made Karen Carpenter blue. Maybe she should have played her two Christmas records, Christmas Portrait and An Old Fashioned Christmas. Both are combined in this 31-piece collection, a great value for fans of this brother-sister duo who captured the pop airwaves during the early to mid-'70s. A number of good performances mark the collection, which includes songs from their Christmas TV special, numerous cuts backed by full orchestra that prove the duo could extend their pop sensibilities to timeless holiday fare, and singular works such as "Little Altar Boy," a song that Richard Carpenter feels was among his sister's greatest performances. --Martin Keller
Tracks:Disc: 1
1. Overture
2. Christmas Waltz, The
3. Sleigh Ride
4. It's Christmas Time/ Sleep Well, Little Children
5. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
6. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
7. Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire), The
8. Silent Night
9. Jingle Bells
10. First Snowfall/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
11. Carol Of The Bells
12. Merry Christmas Darling
13. I'll Be Home For Christmas
14. Christ Is Born - The Carpenters, Charles, Ray [1]
15. Winter WonderLand/Silver Bells/White Christmas
16. Ave Maria
Disc: 2
1. It Came Upon A Midnight Clear
2. Overture
3. Old-Fashioned Christmas, An
4. O Holy Night
5. Home For The Holidays, (There's No Place Like)
6. Here Comes Santa Claus / Frosty The Snowman / Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer / Good King Wenceslas
7. Little Altar Boy
8. Do You Hear What I Hear?
9. My Favorite Things
10. He Came Here For Me
11. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
12. What Are You Doing New Year's Eve
13. Selections From "The Nutcracker"
14. I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day
Customer Reviews:
Stunning voice, and classic Christmas CD
January 7, 2009
One of my favorite Christmas CDs, full of holiday classics!
Karen Carpenter's voice is stunning, and hauntingly emotional - one of the greatest voices of the 20th Century - remarkable in it's range, control and clarity. Her voice can be joyfully fun, or make you tearful in it's exquisit, unique beauty!
Richard Carpenter is likewise remarkable in his creative arrangements of the music included in this CD set.
So sad to have lost her so young, but so grateful to them both for sharing their unusual talent!
Carpenters Christmas
January 6, 2009
I was very disappointed with the cds. There is nothing to indicate in the product description that many of the songs are not vocals by Karen. Had I known I would not have purchased this product.
Enjoyed the Carpenters Christmas
December 26, 2008
We were delighted to enjoy the beautiful voice of Karen Carpenter this Christmas. They are a timeless duo.
Closest to original Christmas Portrait, magical voice of Karen makes the season bright
December 24, 2008
The biggest reason to buy this is to get on CD the closest thing to the original Christmas Portrait (disc 1). Disc 2 is fine, and has some wonderful interpretations by Karen (notably "There's No Place Like Home for the Holidays" and "What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?"), but it has far too much instrumental filler and cannot compete with Disc 1. Disc 1 is a classic, and unlike the "deluxe edition" of Christmas Portrait keeps the almost perfect sequence of the original Christmas Portrait album. There are no bad or even mediocre songs on this album, and the arrangements are wonderful and perfectly frame Karen's voice. On several classics, Karen outdoes the originals. The smooth line and wistful ache of her voice when she sings "hang a shining star upon the highest bough" in "Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas" are miraculous. Her versions of "The Christmas Song" and "White Christmas" are right up there with Nat King Cole's and Bing Crosby's. Lesser known songs like "The First Snowfall of the Winter" are equally delightful, and of course "Merry Christmas Darling" is the Carpenters own Christmas classic. Much has been written about the arrangements, and it should be noted that these were Peter Knight's, not Richard Carpenter's.
One gripe: in the original Christmas Portrait, "Ave Maria" was Karen and piano/orchestra only, and it was gorgeous. In the deluxe version and in this set, a choir is added - completely unnecessary, and takes away from the purity of hearing just Karen and the piano on this loveliest and most serene of songs. It is still my favorite song of the album. This is the one Christmas album I have to listen to every year (this plus the single "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" by Brenda Lee). I listen to a lot of other music, but nothing else is indispensable. There's never been another voice like Karen Carpenter's, and never will be.
This Christmas album is a real gem
December 14, 2008
The Christmas Collection is a 2 CD set by the Carpenters and is an excellent collection of traditional and contemporary Christmas music. Karen Carpenter has never sounded better. The world lost an unbelievable artist when we lost Karen. She truly had the voice of an angel. Get this great collection and sit back and enjoy the best sounds of the season.
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