Celtic Christmas is a collection of timeless, traditional Christmas melodies - including We Three Kings, Away in a Manger, Silent Night, I Saw Three Ships and Oh Come, Oh Come, Emmanuel - arranged and performed in a way that truly does convey the spirit and atmosphere of the winter solstice. Each track opens with evocative winter sounds - thrushes, robins and wrens warbling, wading birds and gulls crying as they fly over windswept estuaries, wind in the trees, waves on the beach, rain-swollen streams clattering over stones, crackling wood fires.... Then you hear a single thread of melody, hauntingly played on some traditional instrument such as recorder or harp. Gradually the music fills out with deeper and richer sounds, both of real instruments and keyboards, until you feel yourself cloaked in the safe warmth and regal serenity of Christmas.
12 tracks, total playing time 54 mins
Music, spoken word
