List your favorite Christmas music CD/DVD's here.

Yes, its a little early but with the start of the holiday season coming, I always amaze myself with how much money I go out and spend on 3-6 new Christmas discs of music.


Yet, I often find myself returning to a few of these generic compilation discs of mostly traditional material I already owned. The irony is some of them were just randomly accquired discs in those impulse buys of those 2-4 disc generic compilation you grab off the rack after a quick glance hoping they are as good as the packaging suggests. You often find a real gem once in a while of some orchestras/symphonies doing really great performances of the traditional material or some female vocalist who did a disc and for some reason her intpretations just really shine.


I have lent out or lost a few over the years and spent many an hour shopping/browsing to try to replace them. Several are suspected kidnap victims to various family members who seem to have the disc but no box or cover,while I still have the disc box but they "swear"its their original pruchase copy,lol.


I am going to pick a few out of my shelf of 40 or so(accquired over a lifetime) or so and post them here and thought we chould share what we thought was the best of the rich cheerful holiday music out there with each other.


I grabbed this handfull off the shelf that always make it into the player each year before I start looking for others.


SleighRide- from the Classic Christmas Favorites Series of discs they put out

A Winter's Solstice V - Windham Hill Artists

In The Nutcracker Mood - Glenn Miller Orchestra

Christmas Through Your Eyes - Gloria Estefan

Christmas In The Mood (Boxed Set of 4) - Glenn Miller Orchestra

Vienna Boys Choir -Christmas Favorites

Barbara Streisand - A Christmas Album

Carpenters - Christmas Portrait


A note on the Winters Solstice V disc, they put an entire series of instrumentals on discs ( there are at least Vol I.- VIII )and some of them are more mood pieces than traditional Christmas songs but guests love them and request them every year when they visit.