Released: 2006
Tracks: Medley (O Come O Come Emmanuel/O Come All Ye Faithful/Little Drummer Boy/Angels We Have Heard on High/Hark the Herald Angels Sing/We Three Kings/O Holy Night/It Came Upon a Midnight Clear/The First Noel/What Child is This?/God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Silent Night)
Best track: all
Track to skip: none
I originally wrote this a few days after this download was posted on
DG’s website (it’s not there anymore), but I didn’t get this review posted until a few months later. This would have been my soonest “release-to-review” ratio that I’ve ever done. It probably still is, just a few months later. Oh well!
This was only available as a download on DG’s website for the 2006 Holiday season. Good timing that it coincided with this batch of Christmas album reviews. What I like about this release (in comparison with the non-legitimate This Euphoric Christmas) is that it’s only Davíd playing solo piano and that’s all. No guitar and no vocals. It’s perfect in its simplicity. The medley is 17 minutes long, more or less continuous and goes through a bunch of what I call “sacred” Christmas songs. You know, the ones actually having to do with Jesus. I’ve always enjoyed these songs way more than the “secular” ones. I don’t know why. I guess they just reflect what I feel “Christmas” should be, and not really how it actually is here in 2006. It probably hasn’t been that way long since before I was born, but I like to remember my childhood Christmases as being “pure” and not obscenely commercialized. So, yeah, that’s why I love this. It’s just these great Christmas songs played on piano. They’re all simple arrangements, no showboating or flashy runs or anything. It’s really just the way it should be. And you might have a different opinion of all this, but this is mine. This release makes me feel good, which is what Christmas music should do. I guess there’s not much else to say. I really, really like this.
Rating: 96
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