Product Description: Characterized by its Capra-esque quality, this acclaimed holiday recording features an ensemble that joins talents from the hard rock, Broadway musical and classical arenas. Genre: Christmas Music Media Format: Compact Disk Rating: Release Date: 15-OCT-1996
Amazon.com: Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve and Other Stories a holiday rock opera? Or perhaps just a holiday prog-rock disc? Or maybe it's New Age? Whatever the case may be, this isn't your typical Christmas album. Filled with electric guitar solos, plenty of synthesized keyboards, a children's choir, and lively drumming, Christmas Eve can only be compared to one other record, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's other holiday disc, The Christmas Attic. On this CD, angelic vocal solos (on numbers such as "The Prince of Peace") are interspersed with driving instrumentals. Sentimental, occasionally bombastic, but as high-concept as holiday albums can be. --Jason Verlinde
After seening TSO in concert over Christmas we found every one of there CD's except this one in our local stores. This one has the song Christmas Eve Sarajevo which was the one we wanted. I found it here at Amazon and purchased it as a gift. Outstanding music by an Outstanding group of people. But I will warn you it is classical, symphonic, hard rock so probably not for everyone. If you aren't familiar with TSO I would try to here some of their stuff before I make the purchase.