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| O Holy Night / Luciano Pavarotti / Special Deluxe Edition (Decca) | 
 enlarge | Creators: Vittoriano Benvenuti, Hector Berlioz, Georges Bizet, Cesar Franck, Christoph Willibald Gluck, Charles Gounod, Guida, Saverio Mercadante, Louis Niedermeyer, Luciano Pavarotti
Label: Decca
Category: Music
List Price: $17.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 3180
Format: Extra Tracks
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
MPN: 000530102
UPC: 028947568964
EAN: 0028947568964
ASIN: B000B8I8SM
Release Date: October 11, 2005
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| Tracks:
| • | O holy night (Minuit chretien) | | • | Pieta, Signore | | • | Panis Angelicus | | • | Qual Giglio Candido | | • | Ave Maria | | • | Gesu Bambino | | • | Che faro senza Euridice | | • | Cujus animam gementem | | • | Ingemisco | | • | Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846 | | • | Mille cherubini in coro (arr. after Schubert) | | • | Agnus Dei | | • | Sanctus | | • | Adeste Fideles (O come, all ye faithful) | | • | O Jesu mi ducissime | | • | Ave verum corpus (attrib.) | | • | Ave Maria, Dolce Maria |
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Amazon.com
This CD is a compilation of (mainly) devotional music sung by Pavarotti when he was in or near his prime, most going back, gloriously, to 1976. Precisely what Orfeo's lament (from the Gluck opera) is doing in a recital called "O Holy Night" is beyond me, but the rest of the selections are well chosen. The title song is gorgeously enough performed to be worth the album's asking price, the tenor's voice ringing out with great clarity and beauty, and the selection from Rossini's Stabat Mater is even more thrilling, with its ascent to high D flat near its close. Verdi's "Ingemisco," from his Requiem, is handsomely and sensitively delivered, and the others elections, with or without choir, are simply stunning. A CD for Christmas and the rest of the year as well. --Robert Levine
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
For the meaning of Christmas -- November 1, 2006
25 out of 25 found this review helpful
For enjoying the spirit of the Christmas season, I rely on The Time Life Platinum Christmas Collection, "Treasury of Christmas I", 3 CD set of 36 songs by various artists, UPC 1130-11311-2. But for the MEANING of Christmas, only Pavarotti's renditions of these timeless, beautiful songs meet the challange. I've listened to others, from Il Divo to Carerras and Domingo, but none meld the scores, arrangements and precise delivery and have the same effect upon the listener. This is Pavarotti, the ultimate tenor, recorded at his best.
The Maestro January 15, 2006
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
These are the great musical selections that only Pavarotti can do justice. To put them into the hands of someone else would be a disservice to both the composer and the listener.
A very special Christmas album December 24, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
My wife and I love Christmas music, but this album is in a class by itself. It is opera, classical music, Christmas carols, and the most heartfelt and expressive personal expression of religious feeling. It is exalted and joyous, and to my wife and me, inexpressively beautiful. We're listening to "O Holy Night" as I type this on Christmas Eve, as we've listened to this album since its release, several times each year before and after Christmas. Each year, I discover new depths and new appreciation for songs that we maybe didn't hear as clearly previously.
Forget the aging Pavarotti singing with diminished voice into a microphone to packed arenas, handkerchief in hand. This was recorded in January 1976 in England when Pavarotti was in his prime, movingly expressing his deep religious feeling through magnificent music. The great opera conductor Kurt Herbert Adler of the Chicago Lyric Opera and then Music Director of the San Francisco Opera perfectly led the National Philharmonic Orchestra, along with the magnificent Wandsworth Boys Choir and London Voices led by Terry Edward. I should point out that this album is classical and operatic music, or beloved carols done in a classical or operatic style. You won't find "Frosty the Snowman", "Jingle Bells", or "A Chipmunk's Christmas" here.
Treat yourself to this album, and look forward to years of deepening appreciation and pleasure from it. It can become an integral part of your Christmas celebration, a special annual treat, as it's become for my family.
O Holy Night February 16, 2007
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
It is such a pleasure to listen to Luciano Pavorotti's Christmas songs, it is such a treat to listen to these lovely songs he sings. Excellent.
Same music on a PBS Pavarotti special? September 6, 2007
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I copied from PBS on December 1983 a PBS special "Christmas Special" at Notre Dame Cathederal in Montreal, Canada, which has, I think, the very same music. I play the Christmas VHS each Christmas and the cover of this CD looks the same as the one at the Cathederal in Montreal, Canada. Is this the very same music? I don't own this CD, but I plan on purchasing it. Unfortunately, after 24 years of watching it, the VHS is starting to lose some color, but the music in intact. Just wondering.
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