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If on a Winter's Night... [Digipak]
Model: 14683930
SKU: 9524865
UPC: 602527017433
Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Gabriel's Message - (featuring Dominic Miller/Sting/Cyro Baptista), 2. Soul Cake - (featuring Joe Sumner/Webb Sisters/David Mansfield/Dean Parks/Chris Gekker/Kathryn Tickell/Sting/Marcus Rojas/Christopher Dudley), 3. There Is No Rose of Such Virtue - (featuring Joe Sumner/Webb Sisters/Daniel Freedman/David Hartley/Rhani Krija/Bassam Saba/Sting/Bijan Chemirani), 4. Snow It Melts the Soonest, The - (featuring Dominic Miller/Sting), 5. Christmas at Sea - (featuring David Mansfield/Dominic Miller/Donald Hay/Kathryn Tickell/Sting/Bashiri Johnson), 6. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming - (featuring Julian Sutton/Kathryn Tickell/Sting), 7. Cold Song - (featuring Dominic Miller/Daphna Mor/Sting), 8. Burning Babe, The - (featuring Julian Sutton/David Mansfield/Jack DeJohnette/Kathryn Tickell/Kenny Garrett/Lisa Fischer/Sting/Cyro Baptista/Daniel Druckman), 9. Now Winter Comes Slowly - (featuring Dov Scheindlin/Sting/Daniel Hope/Melissa Meell), 10. Hounds of Winter, The - (featuring Julian Sutton/David Sancious/Dominic Miller/Kathryn Tickell/Lisa Fischer/Sting/Bashiri Johnson/Cyro Baptista/Bijan Chemirani), 11. Balulalow - (featuring Chris Botti/Lisa Fischer/Sting/Bashiri Johnson/Charles Curtis/Daniel Druckman/Jasmine Thomas), 12. Cherry Tree Carol - (featuring Sting), 13. Lullaby for an Anxious Child - (featuring Julian Sutton/Dominic Miller/Kathryn Tickell/Sting/Cyro Baptista), 14. Hurdy-Gurdy Man, The - (featuring Julian Sutton/Sting/Daniel Hope), 15. You Only Cross My Mind in Winter - (featuring Sting/Edin Karamazov)
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Customer Reviews for If on a Winter's Night... [Digipak]
Review 1 for If on a Winter's Night... [Digipak]
Sting - at his best
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: USNR
from Western Michigan
on 11/23/2009
Value for Price
5.0
Music
5.0
Lyrics
5.0
Cover Art/Extras
3.0
What's great about it: Sting
What's not so great: Cardboard case-hard to store
Great tracks, good message. Non-traditional winter songs leading from Halloween through New Years, nothing like what you've heard before!
I would recommend this to a friend!
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Review 2 for If on a Winter's Night... [Digipak]
Thoughtful and beautifully judged winter album...
Customer Rating
5.0
Posted by: wendavey2010
from New York, NY
on 10/02/2009
Weaving through all the songs on Sting's latest album "If On A Winter's Night..." are the themes of winter, ghosts and spirits, religion and the pull of home back to loved and missed ones. The musicians and singers complement the songs impeccably - the Northumbrian pipes of Kathryn Tickell are so evocative of the the northeast and are an instant reminder to older fans of his classic 1991 album "The Soul Cages", an album that drew heavily on his roots. Standout tracks include "Christmas At Sea", a poem written by Robert Louis Stevenson that is combined with the gaelic song "Thograinn Thograinn" and provides one of the most evocative songs that Sting has recorded. "Soul Cake" is a very catchy song that is guaranteed to etch its way into your subconscious after the first listen and is the most immediate track on the album; "The Snow It Melts The Soonest" is a hauntingly beautiful northumbrian track; "The Burning Babe" contrasts a macabre tale with a jolly tune to great effect, and Sting combines his own lyrics to a piece of Bach on the melancholic "You Only Cross My Mind In Winter". Taken with traditional Christmas songs such as "Gabriel's Message" and the "Cherry Tree Carol", some reworkings of older songs such as "The Hounds of Winter" and "Lullaby To An Anxious Child", and more obscure pieces from centuries past such as "Lo How A Rose E'er Blooming" and "Now Winter Comes Slowly" means that Sting delivers a thoughtful and beautifully judged seasonally themed album without once having to mention reindeer, snowmen or Santa Claus.
I would recommend this to a friend!
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