Sony's 2007 holiday offering The Ultimate Classical Christmas presents a highly varied program of traditional carols and modern seasonal songs that serves equally well as a sampler of the label's biggest stars, including soprano Kathleen Battle, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras, violinist Joshua Bell, and guitarist John Williams, among many other artists. Aside from the usual problem of calling any album the "ultimate" of anything -- what will Sony do for a ...
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Sony's 2007 holiday offering The Ultimate Classical Christmas presents a highly varied program of traditional carols and modern seasonal songs that serves equally well as a sampler of the label's biggest stars, including soprano Kathleen Battle, mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, tenors Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras, violinist Joshua Bell, and guitarist John Williams, among many other artists. Aside from the usual problem of calling any album the "ultimate" of anything -- what will Sony do for a sequel? -- one may quibble instead with the loose way the term classical is used. When Charlotte Church opens with "Ding Dong! Merrily on High" in a manic Broadway arrangement, and the Wynton Marsalis Septet delivers Joy to the World and Winter Wonderland as breezy jazz numbers, it becomes apparent that very little here is classical in the strictest sense. Indeed, Sony's classical performers cover all the stylistic bases, so a little bit of everything is here, from a Baroque rendition of...
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