Mannheim Steamroller - Christmas Live

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• Christmas Music
• Compact Disk

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Music Review: Christmas music you could play any year round
Rating: 5 Stars

Frankly I was expecting some kind of cliched interpretation of xmas songs - the kind ussually advertised on TV during November to December and played in stores - meaning it would only be good to be played once a year at Christmas day.

What a surprise! On most of these songs; you can only barely tell that it is xmas songs being played with light touches of electronica with a strong emphasis of flutes, panpipes, recorders and other medieval instrumemtation thrown into the mix; thus sound very non seasonal therefore making it Christmas music you could play all year round

It could be said that this is the type of Christmas music a progressive rock band like Jethro Tull, Happy the Man, Camel etc would make.

Thus a more delightful suprise given that I thought it would sound something more ambientlike Yanni.

Given this, yours truly will checkout more of Steamroller's recordings and welcomes any suggestions of Steamroller recordings exhibiting their more progressive side.

For a Christmas recording that is non cliched and has the ability to be played all year round; it gets a 10/10

Description of Christmas Live

Classical CDs

• Music > Styles
• Miscellaneous
• New Age
• Pop
• Rock