If On a Winter's Night... (Bonus Track Version)
Sting
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| Name | Artist | Time | Price | ||
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| 1 | Gabriel's Message | Sting | 2:33 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 2 | Soul Cake | Sting | 3:27 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 3 | There Is No Rose of Such Virtue | Sting | 4:02 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 4 | The Snow It Melts the Soonest | Sting | 3:43 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 5 | Christmas At Sea | Sting | 4:37 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 6 | Lo How a Rose E'er Blooming | Sting | 2:41 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 7 | Cold Song | Sting | 3:15 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 8 | The Burning Babe | Sting | 2:42 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 9 | Now Winter Comes Slowly | Sting | 3:05 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 10 | The Hounds of Winter | Sting | 5:49 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 11 | Balulalow | Sting | 3:09 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 12 | Cherry Tree Carol | Sting | 3:10 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 13 | Lullaby for an Anxious Child | Sting | 2:49 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 14 | Hurdy Gurdy Man | Sting | 2:49 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 15 | You Only Cross My Mind In Winter | Sting | 2:35 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| 16 | Bethlehem Down (Bonus Track) | Sting | 2:54 | $1.29 | View In iTunes |
| Booklet Digital Booklet - If On A Winter's Night | Sting | Album Only | View In iTunes |
| Total: 17 Items |
iTunes Review
Most performers looking to join in the seasonal music market sing well known Christmas Carols and familiar wintertime fare. Fittingly, Sting does not bow down at the sight of Santa Claus and wish everyone a holly, jolly Christmas, but rather finds solace in a more solemn approach. Sting’s traditionals are not the usual. Coupled with classical producer Robert Sadin, Sting puts his own serious delivery to the haunting crawl of “Gabriel’s Message,” the sonorous snowcaps of the Newcastle, England traditional “The Snow It Melts the Soonest” and the smoothly but sparsely rhythmic 15th Century Marian hymn “There Is No Rose of Such Virtue.” For Robert Louis Stevenson’s “Christmas At Sea,” Sting adapts a darker, deeper throaty delivery. This is many miles north of anything he performed with the Police. Sting wrote three songs for the occasion: the surprisingly pop-like “The Hounds of Winter” and co-writes on “Lullaby for an Anxious Child” with Dominic Miller and the album’s closer, “You Only Cross My Mind In Winter” with music by J.S. Bach. Not your traditional album of egg-nogged cheer, but a thoughtful, well executed piece of seasonal music.
Recent Customer Reviews
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by plasteredUpdate - This really is a beautiful record (except for a couple of tracks). I think those tracks really influenced folks perception of the album. You know which tracks they are. The musicians are very talented and Sting is awesome (except for a couple of tracks - that I really dooonnn'ttttt geeeetttttttttttt Sting. Didn't work for me.
I love your body of work, I love your voice, I love your book Broken Music, I love winter, I love traditional music and I wanted to love this album so very much.
I also love that I have a free and open mind...so I'm going to take Bbmajor7's advice, pour myself a glass of "Glen whatever" and go back and give it another listen.
Beautiful and impressive
by cornellcrawfordI'm normally not a Sting devotee, but I do think he has captured a wonderfully haunting and melancholy side of the holiday in this album. I was really excited when I heard his version of Schubert's "Der Leiermann" from 'Winterreise' in which he adapted the English lyrics for "Hurdy Gurdy Man." It's rare to find such intelligence in programming, especially coming from the pop realm, but Sting has shattered those stereotypes in this collection.
Well Done!
by Yeh You RightI think all of you Sting fans should reprogram your ipods or whatever and listen to the same old Sting music over and over. All others should buy this album and be prepared for a well recorded/arranged/performed musical experience.
Biography
Born: October, 1951 in Wallsend, England
Genre: Rock
Years Active: '70s, '80s, '90s, '00s
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