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Each album is an opera. If you only listen to one or two songs, you wont be able to follow the story. I saw them live and didn't totally understand until after I listened to the album from start to finish. All I can say is that this CD is incredible.
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this was a lot of the music played on tv weeks b4 I got dvd. this was really good!!!!!
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In going about my life, I heard a song. It was an amazing song. I love Classical music, and I love hard rock. This song I heard had both of these styles in it. They were intertwining in a majestic style I never knew was possible. This song harkened back to the magic of Christmas in all of it's powerful beauty. And so I searched for this song. Everywhere I turned, I had to find this song. Finally I found it. It is the fourth track on the album "The Lost Christmas Eve" by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra. The song is titled "Wizards in Winter." I had to buy this album. This has got to be some of the best music I have heard in a long, long time. In a nutshell, what the Trans-Siberian Orchestra has done is that they have taken the best of Classical music and mixed it with the best of rock music. This is most appearant in the song "Wizards in Winter." Really, though, they touch on most styles of music. If you like any type of music, you will find something you like here. They have blues, rock, classical, jazz, etc.. All of it, though, is Christmas music. Amazingly enough, this album comes with a booklet. "So what, most CDs do?" I can here you asking. Well, the booklet that comes with this album is 44 pages long and has two short stories written in it. The first one is story God sending his youngest angel sent to Earth to find the one person that "best continued the work of His Son on Earth." This story, as made appearant by the albums title, takes place on Christmas Eve. I was surprised to find that the story was well written and was actually quite heart-warming. The second story was a re-write of the first one and was written in a way to explain the songs on the CD. The music on the CD actually accompanies the story in the booklet. Or vice-versa. Whichever way you choose to look at it works. Now, back to the music. No matter which style they do, it is good. The Jazz is very Jazzy, the Blues makes you feel like your sitting in a bar listening to a guy in sunglasses is banging away on a piano. (Which is very good, because that is what's happening in the story at this point on the CD.) "Christmas Jam" just plain ROCKS! (That is, in fact the one listening to as I write this.) "Remember" uses Members of the American Boychoir for the singing and has a very nice nostalgic sound to it. "Wish Liszt" is just plain a trip. It has some of the most complex and technical Piano playing I have heard in a long time. This is very approapriate, in seeing that it is paying tribute to the most complex and technical classical composers in history, Franz Liszt. A very cool song, overall. With myself being a classical pianist, I was very pleased when I heard "Christmas Canon Rock". The "Pachebel Canon", also known as "Canon in D" has always been one of my favourite songs and has even inspired some of my own song writings. "Christmas Canon Rock" has to be the best version of the "Pachebel Canon" I have ever heard. I usually don't like lyrics added to Classical pieces, but the lyrics they added to it are beautiful and do not detract from the music of the song. If anything, they add to it. The singer they had for this song is very, very skilled to say the least. She is capable of holding out a not for the longest time. Very, very beautiful work on this one. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra is, to say the least, amazing. This CD, with 22 amazing songs on it, is well worth the purchase. I highly recomend that you pick it up.Read full review
This was my first Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD. It has become my favorite Christmas CD, as the songs on this CD will just grab hold of you and pull you in to the magic of Trans-Siberian Orchestra. I bought this CD, after hearing Christmas Canon played on the radio. At first I was sad that I had not bought the Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD which had Christmas Canon on it, but then I played this CD, and there was my treat near the end of the CD in Christmas Canon Rock! I love that this CD offers to its listeners the full range of Trans-Siberian Orchestras' musical talent. It is all there, songs that drip with the blues, jazz, classical, soft adult contemporary and hard rock. I also love the grinchy song What Is Christmas, as do my grandchildren. It reminds us that there are still grinches out there, who really have no idea what the true meaning of Christmas is. My family (8 of us in all) were able to to see Trans-Siberian Orchestra on December 23, 2007. They were all we expected and more! It is wonderful that they have taken classical songs and classic Christmas music and added their own wonderful hard rock twist to them, without compromising the integrity of the songs. If you have never listened to this fantastic group, you have no idea what you have been missing!Read full review
As a last ditch effort to save our marriage, my husband and I had a date night to last years's "The Lost Christmas Eve" show. Oh my Gosh! The Trans-Siberian Orchestra was so awesome we bought the cd. We played it so many times that our kids can sing along to every word. In fact, I'd be willing to bet that even the dog could join them ... in perfect harmony. Alas, the harmony did not extend beyond the music, and my soon-to-be-ex and I actually argued over custody of the TSO cd. EBay solved the problem and restored some civility to my home. Now we have two copies - one for each new household. I even got to play the Gracious One and gave "him" the new copy ... after all, I know where to get another copy of this absolutely awesome cd at an absolutely awesome price. Thanks eBay!
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