Classic FM - Music for Christmas
Classic FM - Music for Christmas
Customer Review: Enjoyable For The Festive Season
Brilliant stuff to put on for Christmas. I was however unbelievably dissapointed when I found myself struggling to hear the carols. Not the best buy I’ve made, and some of the carols are very clear and good to listen to, I found that several of the carols were drounded out by the music (still good, but I bought this for the carols). Nice to listen to, now I’ve got it I’m not annoyed, but had I have heard this before I probably would’ve had second thoughts before purchasing it, still, it didn’t cost much, and none of the tracks are horrible to listen to, they are all nice, just not quite what I hoped for
Customer Review: Not the best I’m afraid
I was looking forward to this one but I’m afraid (despite the time of year) I can’t be too charitable about it. Carol’s are all about voices and I’m afraid the quality of the voices on the recordings are just not up to scratch. It’s like they recorded at the back a big echoing hall with the microphone in a goldfish bowl. A lot of the time the lyrics are a next to inaudible mush and frequently sung in such a low key and somber fashion as to render otherwise cheerful and uplifting carols into elevator music.
The poor soloists are given little chance to shine either with their voices almost inaudible compared to the woolly wall of sound that accompanies them.
Christmas carols should surely be sung with joy and celebration (it’s for Christmas after all) and recorded with clarity to get the most from them.
I’ve given it two stars because at least there is a large selection on the disc - I’m afraid I didn’t think most of them were up to much though.
Well there’s my tuppence worth - there’s plenty of other Christmas compilations out there. Happy listening. (or if you can’t be happy have a listen to the Alfie Boe CD - bring a tear to a glass eye 5/5).
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