The Christmas Trilogy (3CD/DVD)

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Product Details

Artist : Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Format : Best of, Box set
Binding : Audio CD
EAN : 0081227399429
Label : Rhino-Atlantic
Number of Discs : 4
Product Group : Music
Release Date : 2004-11-09
UPC : 081227399429

ASIN : B0002Z7RI6

Track Listings for

Disc-1
1. Angel Came Down
2. O' Come All Ye Faithful/O' Holy Night [Instrumental]
3. Star to Follow
4. First Snow [Instrumental]
5. Silent Nutcracker [Instrumental]
6. Mad Russian's Christmas [Instrumental]
7. Prince of Peace
8. Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 [Instrumental]
9. Good King Joy
10. Ornament
11. First Noel [Instrumental]
12. Old City Bar
13. Promises to Keep
14. This Christmas Day
15. Angel Returned
16. O' Holy Night
17. God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen

Disc-2
1. Ghosts of Christmas Eve
2. Boughs of Holly [Instrumental]
3. World That She Sees
4. World That He Sees
5. Midnight Christmas Eve [Instrumental]
6. March of the Kings/Hark the Herald Angel [Instrumental]
7. Three Kings and I (What Really Happened)
8. Christmas Canon
9. Joy/Angels We Have Heard on High
10. Find Our Way Home
11. Appalachian Snowfall [Instrumental]
12. Music Box
13. Snow Came Down
14. Christmas in the Air
15. Dream Child (A Christmas Dream)
16. Angel's Share
17. Music Box Blues

Disc-3
1. Faith Noel
2. Lost Christmas Eve
3. Christmas Dreams
4. Wizards in Winter
5. Remember
6. Anno Domine
7. Christmas Concerto
8. Queen of the Winter Night
9. Christmas Nights in Blue
10. Christmas Jazz
11. Christmas Jam
12. Siberian Sleigh Ride
13. What Is Christmas?
14. For the Sake of Our Brother
15. Wisdom of Snow
16. Wish Liszt
17. Back to a Reason, Pt. 2
18. Christmas Bells, Carousels & Time
19. What Child Is This?
20. O' Come Alll Ye Faithful
21. Christmas Canon Rock
22. Different Wings
23. Midnight Clear

Disc-4
1. O' Come All Ye Faithful/O' Holy Night [*]
2. Good King Joy [*]
3. Hark! The Herald Angels Sing [*]
4. Christmas Eve (Sarajevo 12/24) [*]
5. Christmas Canon [*]
6. O' Holy Night [*]
7. Music Box Blues [*]
8. Promises to Keep [*]
9. This Christmas Day [*]
10. First Snow [*]
11. Promises to Keep [DVD]
12. This Christmas Day [DVD]
13. First Snow [DVD]

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Customer Reviews

First time I've been compelled to write a review (2006-10-19)

I simply don't go for the traditional, sappy music that pervades the Christmas season. But this music is stunning, and will blow you away. From sheer orchestral power down to the lightest touch guiding you through a story.Each CD is it's own contained story, each song progressing you along the threads of that story. And no two songs alike.Pure emotion has been poured into the making of this beautiful music, and it comes right back out. I've openly cried while listening to it (Old City Bar and Music Box get to me every time).It's not your traditional Christmas music, but it's got everything in it from Prog Rock, to Hard Rock to huge Orchestral overtures. If it sounds different, and you like different, you'll love this.

Rockin Christmas (2006-01-01)

Hard rock. Christmas.

These simply don't seem to go together. After all, Christmas music is usually fluffy, syrupy stuff about decking the halls, trimming the tree, and spending time with your family, et cetera. They play it in malls, and after a few hundred chirrupy renditions of "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town," you're ready to gnaw the tinsel off the walls.

But Trans-Siberian Orchestra breaks all the rules of Christmas music. Producer Paul O'Neill and Jon Oliva teamed up to create this trilogy of hard-rock, orchestral Christmas albums, which bring back the splendour and beauty that every Christmas album should have, but few do.

The three albums -- "Christmas Eve and Other Stories," "The Christmas Attic" and "The Lost Christmas Eve" -- are each a self-contained story, with a little booklet that tells the story that each song accompanies. These stories almost border on goop (mentally challenged children, sad angels, loneliness on Christmas) but never goes over the border. It sounds cliched, but occasionally it will wring a tear from your eye.

If it were just about hard-rock carols, this would be interesting but not really worthwhile. But there is a surprising innocence and awe in this music. No, it probably WON'T change your life, but it is truly unique. O'Neill and Oliva don't shy away from religious stories, and the baroque flavour of their arrangements gives it the feel of something timeless that was only recently dug up.

It also pushes some musical boundaries -- it's not truly prog, metal, classical, new age, or hard-rock. Instead, it mixes roiling guitars with sparkling bells, angelic vocals with bombastic fury, classical orchestra with languid basslines. It could use a bit less of the power-metal vibe, but once you get used to it, it shouldn't be a problem.

Christmas music has become stale over the years, with singers recycling the same old bland tunes. But Trans-Siberian Orchestra's "Christmas Trilogy" brings vibrancy, energy, and a kind of rockin' sweetness back into holiday music. Enchanting.

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