Artist: TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHE</br>genre: Christmas Music</br>product type: Compact Disc</br>Release Date: 15-OCT-1996</br>Returns Accepted?: Yes</br></br>Product Description</br></br>This is a concept album all the way?? with tales of Christmas kindness intertwined with masterful musicianship as they play traditionals plus their own An Angel Came Down; First Snow; Ornament; Old City Bar ?? and more!</br></br>Amazon.com</br></br>Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's <I>Christmas Eve and Other Stories</I> 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?? <I>Christmas Eve</I> can only be compared to one other record?? the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's <I>other</I> holiday disc?? <I>The Christmas Attic</I>. On this CD?? angelic vocal solos (on numbers such as " of Peace") are interspersed with driving instrumentals. Sentimental?? occasionally bombastic?? but as high-concept as holiday albums can be. <I>--Jason Verlinde</I></br><br/>http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0005164885oo work fo