Track Listing

1. Christmas Prologue
2. Deck The Halls
3. The Closing Of The Year
4. Tu scendi dalle stelle
5. Walking In The Air
6. Adeste Fideles
7. Away In A Manger
8. An Old-Fashioned Christmas
9. First Of May
10. Il Re Gesu
11. Froliche Weihnacht
12. Cantemos Rapaces
13. Christmas Is Here Again
14. Child In A Manger
15. Angels From The Realms Of Glory
16. Another Christmas Song
17. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
18. Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
19. Silent Night
20. First Of May (Studio Version) - (Bonus Track)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25972 in Music
• Released on: 1998-10-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

From Amazon.com
You don't hear many live Christmas records, but then it's seldom you get as many operatic powerhouses under one Austrian town-hall roof with a full orchestra and large children's choir. Placido Domingo (who dominates the proceedings with his commanding tenor), Britain's own Sarah Brightman, Belgian Helmut Lotti, and Italy's Richard Cocciante raise the roof on this international gala recording from 1997 under the skilled baton of Steven Mercurio and choir master Elizabeth Ziegler. Chief among the performances during this black-tie event are the Domingo-Cocciante duet of "Walking in the Air," Brightman's chilling "First of May," (the Bee Gees song) and a strange medley of European-American songs, traditional and pop, ranging from Roger Whittaker and John Lennon and Yoko Ono to Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson and a handful of traditional Welsh, German, and Spanish works, plus that Yank standard "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town." For button-down audiences only who still can appreciate pop songs in expanded and exploded arrangements. --Martin Keller