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Noel | 
 enlarge | Artist: Joan Baez
Label: Vanguard Records
Category: Music
Buy New: $17.98
New (24) Used (14) from $9.99
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 49346
Format: Original Recording Remastered
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
UPC: 015707959629
EAN: 0015707959629
ASIN: B00005NF1E
Release Date: August 14, 2001
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| Tracks:
| • | O Come, O Come, Emmanuel | | • | Coventry Carol | | • | Good King Winceslas (instrumental) | | • | The Little Drummer Boy | | • | I Wonder As I Wander | | • | Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella (instrumental) | | • | Down In Yon Forrest | | • | The Carol Of The Birds | | • | Angels We Have Heard On High (instrumental) | | • | Ave Maria (german) | | • | Mary's Wandering | | • | Deck The Halls (instrumental) | | • | Away In A Manger | | • | Adeste Fidelis (instrumental) | | • | Cantique De Noel (french) | | • | What Child Is This | | • | Silent Night | | • | The First Noel | | • | We Three Kings (instrumental) | | • | Virgin Mary | | • | Good Christian Kings (instrumental) | | • | Burgundian Carol | | • | Away In A Manger (french) |
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| Customer Reviews: Read 11 more reviews...
 Christmas Cheer throughout the Year... January 23, 2008
This is not an album to enjoy only during the holiday season. It is an album to enjoy anytime you want to hear the exceptional voice of Joan Baez. Although "Very Early Joan" is my favorite, I find myself selecting this album just to hear Joan's pitch-perfect voice.
An Album Worth Buying December 29, 2007
Even if you own this album on vinyl or on the original CD, as I do, the remastered CD is very much worth buying -- for the excellent sound, for the revealing new liner notes by Peter Schickele, and, above all, for the added tracks, previously unreleased. Most thrilling among these tracks is Virgin Mary, a signature song for Baez in the early 1960s but heretofore available only on an obscure album of poor sound quality consisting mostly of non-Baez material. Baez does not so much sing this song as call it out to the angels -- a haunting performance on a gorgeous album.
Ultimate Classic Christmas July 16, 2007
How can you beat P. Shickele and J.Baez? The original songs are a wonder. Thank you for putting these musical treasures into CD format so that 'new' listeners can discover the sublime match of musicology, true talent, and old Christmas songs. For us 'old' fans, it remains perfectly produced, perfectly sung, and a magical, musical treat.
a classic December 23, 2006
This Christmas album is a gem in a sea of mediocrity. It seems that every renowned singer feels obliged to produce a Christmas collection - and we have been inundated with lack-luster performances of boring old Christmas songs ever since Elvis gave us Blue Christmas.
It is not so with this wonderful collection. Here we have Joan Baez with her purest simple soprano singing from her heart set against a background of inspired orchestral arrangements. The songs are both familiar and strange. The entire cd evokes an atmosphere of love and wonder. We are reminded of the true meaning of Christmas throughout.
A classic for me. I urge you to share my delight.
Noel..Greatest Christmas Album Ever? December 20, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Christmas is not Christmas without this beautiful recording.
After having given this album/cd to friends throughout the years, I discovered recently that I didn't have my own copy anymore. I looked everywhere--big box stores, used music stores, etc.--but to no avail. I finally checked Amazon, and was happy to find it in this new, remastered version, along with additional tracks not present on the original.
This recording is an amazing combination of Baez's impeccable soprano, extraordinarily nuanced arrangements, and an 'x' factor that I can only call "sublime." Most Christmas music (to my ears) bounds forward in an unreflective, mechanized glee. Not so here. The pathos inherent in Christ's birth--so often overlooked in most Christmas music--is fully present in this gorgeous album, and serves as a necessary counterpoint to the joy and wonder of the nativity.
If you need a cure for the overwhelming commercialism that has become Christmas, just play this album. It will reconnect you in a profound way with the simple beauty of Christmas.
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