Moya Brennan - An Irish Christmas

Track Listing:

1. Carol Of The Bells
2. The Wexford Carol
3. Deck The Halls
4. Do You Hear What I Hear / Don Oicheud i mBeithil
5. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
6. Gabriel's Message
7. Joy To The World
8. I Still Believe
9. In The Bleak Midwinter
10. Love Came Down At Christmas
11. In Dulci Jubilo
12. Oiche Chuin (Silent Night)

An Irish Christmas is a music album by Irish musician Maire Brennan, now known as Moya Brennan. ‘An Irish Christmas’ charts a different course, reviewing the Christmas story through a blend of new tracks and left field favourites. From ‘God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen’ to ‘In The Bleak Midwinter’, Moya reworks the classics with an intimacy that restores the personal and the passionate to what have become mumbled, half-remembered musical yarns. The listener is placed in the front row of the ultimate nativity opera. According to Moya, the idea for the album first came to her some time ago: "I’ve been involved in number of other people’s Christmas projects in recent years," explains Moya, "but I wanted to capture a truly Celtic Christmas feeling." "It’s always important to bring the meaning of Christmas to the fore. It is the essence of what I believe in and the album offers both celebration and reflection on that familiar theme."

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Sarah Brightman - A Winter Symphony (Special Edition)

A Winter Symphony is a Christmas album from the English soprano singer Sarah Brightman, released in November 2008. The album lends its name from Brightman's earlier album in 2008, Symphony. To promote the album, Sarah released the single accompanied with its video for the song "I Believe in Father Christmas". This edition features 3 bonus tracks.

Track Listing:

1. Arrival
2, Colder Than Winter
3. Ave Maria (Duet with Fernando Lima)
4. Silent Night
5. In The Bleak Midwinter
6. I've Been This Way Before
7. Jesu, Joy Of Man's Desiring
8. Child In A Manger
9. I Wish It Could Be Christmas
10. Amazing Grace
11. Ave Maria (Gounod)
12. I Believe In Father Christmas
13. Happy Christmas (War Is Over)
14. First Of May
15. He Moved Through The Fair


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Il Divo - The Christmas Collection

The Christmas Collection, album of the operatic pop vocal group Il Divo. The album was the best selling Christmas album in the United States in 2005. It was released on October 25, 2005 in seven countries the United States, Canada, Austria, Slovenia, Netherlands, Sweden and Finland. The album is a collection of Christmas or holiday-inspired songs.

Track Listing:

1. O Holy Night
2. White Christmas
3. Ave Maria
4. When A Child Is Born
5. Adeste Fideles (O Come All Ye Faithful)
6. Over The Rainbow
7. Panis Angelicus
8. Rejoice
9. Silent Night
10. The Lords Prayer

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New Celtic Woman Pictures

1st pic is with 2 new members and the 2nd pic is with Meav, who unfortunately isn't with Celtic Woman now but hopefully with be back.

Vittorio Grigolo - In The Hands Of Love

Vittorio's debut album In The Hands of Love, of Pop/Opera genre, entered the British charts at number 6; setting a new sales record and confirming him as the leading classical solo artist. The album contains renditions of Keane's "Bedshaped", "Maria" from West Side Story, Stevie Wonder's "All In Love Is Fair" and a duet with Katherine Jenkins entitled "You Are My Miracle".

Track Listing:

1. Tu Sei
2. Il Mio Miracolo
3. Bedshaped (Cosi)
4. Magia De Amor
5. In The Hands Of Love
6. All In Love Is Fair (Se L'Amore C'e)
7. Fuerte
8. Se Tu Non Sei Lei
9. Querida
10. Listen To The Bell (Chi Ci Ascoltera)
11. Roma Sogna
12. Butterfly Forever
13. You Are My Miracle
14. Maria

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Harry Connick. Jr - When My Heart Finds Christmas

When My Heart Finds Christmas is American artist Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Christmas album, released in 1993 and is among the most popular holiday collections of the past and current decade in the USA. The multi platinum-certified album also proved to be the best-selling holiday album of the 1993 holiday season.

Track Listing:

1. Sleigh Ride
2. When My Heart Finds Christmas
3. It Must've Been Ol' Santa Claus
4. Blessed Dawn Of Christmas Day
5. Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
6. Little Drummer Boy
7. Ave Maria
8. Parade Of The Wooden Soldiers
9. What Child Is This?
10. Christmas Dreaming
11. I Pray On Christmas
12. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer
13. O Holy Night
14. What Are You Doing New Years Eve?

Genre - Easy Listening
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Órla Fallon - The Water Is Wide

A harp-playing member of Celtic Woman, Orla Fallon sings and accompanies herself on traditional Irish songs on this album. She has a lovely voice and her renditions of tunes like "Siuil A Run" and "An Mhaighdean Mhara" are beautiful.

Track Listing:

1. She Moved Thro' The Fair
2. Aililiu na Gamhna
3. Cad E Sin Don Te Sin
4. Carrickfergus
5. Siúil A Rún
6. Down by the Sally Gardens
7. Na Buachailli Alainn
8. Raglan Road
9. Gartan Mothers Lullaby
10. An Mhaighdean Mhara
11. The Water Is Wide

Genre - Celtic
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Josh Groban - Noel

Noël is a Christmas album by singer Josh Groban. It was released on October 9, 2007, the RIAA certified it Quadruple Platinum, recognising four million shipments in America - making it the best-selling album there for 2007^. According to Nielsen Soundscan, the album sold over 3.6 million copies in 11 weeks.

Track Listing:

1. Silent Night
2. Little Drummer Boy (Feat. Andy McKee)
3. I'll Be Home for Christmas
4. Ave Maria
5. Angels We Have Heard on High (Feat. Brian McKnight)
6. Thankful
7. Christmas Song
8. What Child Is This?
9. First Noël (Feat. Faith Hill)
10. Petit Papa Noël
11. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear
12. Panis Angelicus
13. O Come All Ye Faithful (Feat. Mormon Tabernacle Choir)

Genre - Easy Listening
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"Silent Night" Live Performance

Loreena McKennitt - A Midwinter's Nights Dream

A Midwinter Night's Dream is an album by the Canadian singer, songwriter, accordionist, harpist, and pianist Loreena McKennitt, released on October 28, 2008. Loreena adds eight new recordings to the five released on A Winter Garden on this wonderful Christmas album. Loreena's amazing instrumentation and vocals really lend themselves well to the sounds of Christmas.

Track Listing:

1. The Holly & The Ivy
2. Un Flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle
3. The Seven Rejoices Of Mary
4. Noel Nouvelet!
5. Good King Wenceslas
6. Coventry Carol
7. God Rest Ye Merry, Gentlemen
8. Snow
9. Breton Carol
10. Seeds Of Love
11. Gloucestershire Wassail
12. Emmanuel
13. In The Bleak Midwinter

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Delerium feat. Sarah McLachlan - Silence 2004

Delerium's collaboration with Sarah McLachlan yielded quite a few mixes, and this CDM contains most of them. They all bring something new and exciting to the track, but the Tiesto and Above & Beyond remixes are the stand-outs. ~ Scarlett

Track Listing:

1. Silence (Above And Beyond's 21st Century Edit)
2. Silence (Filterheadz Remix)
3. Silence (Above And Beyond's 21st Century Remix)
4. Silence (Fade's Sanctuary Mix Edit)
5. Silence (Tiesto's In Search Of Sunrise Remix)
6. Silence (Michael Woods Mix)

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Bridin Brennan - Eyes Of Innocence

Bridin is Enya and Moya Brennan's little sister! Her debut album is a little more "pop" than her sisters' work, but it's a gentle kind of pop, full of chilled beats and Bridin's pretty, melodic vocals ("Don't Go" is a stunning example!). - Scarlett

Track Listing:

1. Face To Face
2. You Can't Hurt Me
3. Hang On
4. Where's Your Love
5. Got What You Wanted
6. Deep Deep Sleep
7. It's Too Late
8. Breakdown
9. Power Of Three
10. Another Day
11. Don't Go

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Celtic Woman - A Christmas Celebration (+ Bonus Tracks)

This is a special collection I compiled with some extra bonus tracks. The Celtic Woman A Christmas Celebration CD when released did not include 3 tracks that were performed on the DVD, they are "In The Bleak Midwinter", "The First Noel" & "Green The Whole Year Round". I have added them to this collection and have rearranged them in the order they are performed on the Celtic Woman A Christmas Celebration DVD. Plus I have included 2 other christmas songs to the collection.

Track Listing:

1. Carol Of The Bells
2. Silent Night
3. White Christmas
4. Away In A Manger
5. Ding Dong Merrily On High
6. The Little Drummer Boy
7. The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire)
8. In The Bleak Midwinter
9. The First Noel
10. The Wexford Carol
11. Christmas Pipes
12. O Holy Night
13. Panis Angelicus
14. Green The Whole Year Round
15. Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
16. Don Oiche Ud I Mbeithil (That Night In Bethlehem)
17. O Come All Ye Faithful
18. Let It Snow!
19. Ave Maria (Bonus Track)
20. Jesu Joy Of Man’s Desiring (Bonus Track)

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Elizabethan Lute Songs

Here is a collection of 28 songs recorded by Polygram, c1998 by the Tennor Peter Pears and the musician Julian Bream, Many of the songs where written in the 16th Century making them priceless peices of music that help us always to understand more about music of the past.

Here are the tracks and Info:

Fair, sweet, cruel / Ford (2:31) -- Come, sorrow, come / Morley ((3:33) -- When Laura smiles / Rosseter (1:37) -- I saw my lady weep / Dowland (4:11) -- It was a lover and his lass / Morley (2:24) -- Awake, sweet love / Dowland (2:37) -- What then is love but mourning / Rosseter (2:49) -- In darkness let me dwell / Dowland (4:45) -- Mistress mine, well may you fare / Morley (1:17) -- Fine knacks for ladies / Dowland (2:33) -- Sweet, come again / Rosseter (3:44) -- Thyrsis and Milla / Morley (2:25) -- Sorrow, stay / Dowland (3:48) -- Come, Phyllis, come / Ford (1:34) -- I saw my lady weeping / Morley (2:58) -- With my love my life was nestled / Morley (1:31) -- Rest, sweet nymphs / Pilkington (4:28) -- What if my mistress now / Morley (1:33) -- Have you seen but a white lillie grow? / Anon. (2:03) -- Come, let us sound / Campion (1:58) -- Miserere, my maker / Anon. (1:52) -- What is a day? / Rosseter (1:52) -- Fair, if you expect admiring / Campion (1:19) -- Shall I come, sweet love / Campion (2:59) -- If my complaints / Dowland (4:27) -- What if I never speed / Dowland (1:32) -- Whether men do laugh or weep / Rosseter (1:10)

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Enya - And Winter Came

And Winter Came is the seventh full-length studio album from Irish New Age singer Enya. The album was announced by Enya via her official site on September 12, 2008, and was released on November 7, 2008.^[1] The songs on the album primarily have a Christmas or winter theme. The album charted in the UK at #6 on November 16, 2008. First single released was "Trains and winter rains" while the second single is "White is in the Winter Night".

Track Listing:

1. And Winter Came...
2. Journey Of The Angels
3. White Is In The Winter Night
4. O Come O Come Emmanuel
5. Trains And Winter Rains
6. Dreams Are More Precious
7. Last Time By Moonlight
8. One Toy Soldier
9. Stars And Midnight Blue
10. Spirit Of Christmas Past
11. My My Time Flies
12. Oiche Chiuin

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Sarah Brightman - La Luna

Sarah Brightman is a famous and celebrated British soprano, actress, songwriter and dancer, who rose to fame following her roles in the London West End stage musicals 'The Phantom Of The Opera', 'Cats' and 'Aspects Of Love', Sarah has also appeared in some Broadway productions. Sarah is also famous for once being married to Andrew Lloyd Webber.
'La Luna' released between April 2000 and January 2001 in various countries is Sarah's tenth album (excluding soundtracks, cast recordings and compilations), it reached number one on the U.S. Billboard Top Classical Crossover Albums Chart, the songs 'Scarborough Fair' and 'A Whiter Shade Of Pale' were singles. The album consists of a fusion of classical, new age and folk influences, using both tradional orchestral instuments, as well as electronic sounds.

Tracklist

1. La Lune
2. Winter In July
3. Scarborough Fair
4. Figlio Perduto
5. A Whiter Shade Of Pale
6. He Doesn't See Me
7. Serenade
8. How Fair This Place
9. Hijo De La Luna
10. Here With Me
11. La Califfa
12. This Love
13. Solo Con Te
14. Gloomy Sunday
15. La Luna
16. Moon River (Hidden Track)

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Barbara Dickson - Parcel Of Rogues

Barbara Dickson is an award winning Scottish singer and actress, probably best known for her roles in London's West End productions of musicals 'Blood Brothers', 'Chess' and 'Spend, Spend, Spend'. Barbara is also famous for her various popular singles, 'Answer Me', 'Another Suitcase In Another Hall', 'Caravan Song', 'January February' and 'I Know Him So Well', which is a duet with Elaine Paige, taken from the musical 'Chess', and is a studio version of a song they both sang in the show.
'Parcel Of Rogues' released in 1994 is Barbara's eighteenth album, and consists of traditional Scottish/Celtic/folk songs, or songs which have been adapted from traditional ones.

Tracklist

1. Van Diemen's Land
2. My Lagan Love
3. My Johnny Was A Shoemaker
4. Fine Flowers In The Valley
5. I Once Loved A Lad
6. Jock Of Hazeldean
7. Sule Skerry
8. Farewell To Whiskey
9. Lovely Joan
10. Donal Og
11. Geordie
12. Oh Dear Me
13. Parcel Of Rogues

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Jewel - Spirit

Singles include "Hands", "Down So Long," and a newly recorded version of "Jupiter," followed by a remix of "What's Simple Is True" to promote Jewel's debut film Ride with the Devil. Spirit debuted at number 3 on the Billboard 200 with 368,000 copies sold.

Track Listing:

1. Deep Water
2. What's Simple Is True
3. Hands
4. Kiss The Flame
5. Down So Long
6. Innocence Maintained
7. Jupiter
8. Fat Boy
9. Enter From The East
10. Barcelona
11. Life Uncommon
12. Do You
13. Abscence Of Fear / This Little Bird


** Highly Recommended Album **

"Spirit" by Jewel is an album i can't praise enough, No matter if it was posted as Artist of the month or any other time it would be a special occasion for me to share this amazing album!. There is nothing in the world that sounds like this album. If people are aware of Jewel's Alaskan wilderness upbringing it really shows in the album Spirit. With intrumentation to send chills down your spine and a haunting and beautiful voice makes it one of the best "Alternate Pop" albums ever recorded.

Songs like "Enter from the East", "Whats Simple Is True", "Kiss The Flame" both musically and lyrically send you on a soothing trip into the Alaskan wilderness, If you have ever seen the music video for "Whats Simple is true" this is reflected in its visual beauty. The final track This Little Bird is a song that Jewel's mother used to sing to her as a child. They sing this song together in a beautiful melody.

This album really is a masterpiece, an album i have had treasured in my collection since its original release. I would often relax with the lights out to this album and drift away to a beautiful wilderness. Everyone must hear this ~ Anthony

Jewel and her Mother

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Il Divo - The Promise

Il Divo are a classical vocal group, formed in 2003 by Simon Cowell of Pop Idol and X-Factor fame, 'Il Divo' is Italian for 'divine male performer'. The group consists of Carlos Marín from Spain, Urs Bühler from Switzerland, David Miller from America, and Sébastien Izambard from France.
'The Promise' due for release on November 10th 2008 is Il Divo's sixth album (including their Christmas Collection released in 2005), the album contains covers of Frankie Goes To Hollywood's 'The Power Of Love'; 'Leonard Cohen's 'Hallelujah' and ABBA's 'The Winner Takes It All'.

Tracklist

1. The Power Of Love (La Fuerza Mayor)
2. La Promessa
3. Adagio
4. Hallelujah (Aleluya)
5. L'Alba Del Mondo
6. Enamorado
7. Angelina
8. The Winner Takes It All (Va Todo Al Ganador)
9. La Luna
10. She
11. Amazing Grace

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Máire Brennan - Misty Eyed Adventures

Moya/Máire Brennan is best known as the voice of Celtic/New Age family group Clannad.
Singer-songwriter, pianist and harpist Moya/Máire is the eldest of nine children, and she's the sister of Enya, her family formed Clannad in 1970.
'Misty Eyed Adventures' released in November 1994 is Moya's second album, her sister's Brídín, Deirdre and Olive provide backing and harmony vocals on the album. Two singles were taken from the album, 'Big Yellow Taxi' and 'The Days Of The Dancing '.
'Big Yellow Taxi' is a song written and made famous by Joni Mitchell.

Tracklist

1. The Days Of The Dancing
2. A Place Among The Stones
3. The Watchman
4. An Fharraige
5. Pilgrim's Way
6. Big Yellow Taxi
7. The Mighty One
8. Heroes
9. Misty Eyed Adventures
10. Dream On
11. Éirigh Suas a Stóirín (Rise Up My Love)

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Llewellyn - Faerielore

'Faerielore' released in November 2006 is an enchanting album from musician and composer Llewellyn, intended to capture the mystery and magic of faeries and elves. Llewellyn consulted top faerie author Alicen Geddes-Ward during the making of the album, which also features the haunting vocal of Julianna who happens to be Llewellyn's wife, on the track 'Singer In The Stream'.

Tracklist

1. The Faerie Queen
2. Sparkling Spiders Web
3. The Elven Tree
4. Enchantment Of The Elves
5. Singer In The Stream
6. The Faerie Ring
7. The Faerie Mound

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