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Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Gabriel's Message
2. Soul Cake
3. There Is No Rose of Such Virtue
4. Snow It Melts the Soonest, The
5. Christmas at Sea
6. Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
7. Cold Song
8. Burning Babe, The
9. Now Winter Comes Slowly
10. Hounds of Winter, The
11. Balulalow
12. Cherry Tree Carol
13. Lullaby for an Anxious Child
14. Hurdy-Gurdy Man, The
15. You Only Cross My Mind in Winter
DISC 2:
| Details | | Distributor: | Universal Music Canada | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Audio Mixers: David Darlington; Sting.
Liner Note Author: Sting.
Recording information: SevenSeas Studios, New York; Clinton Recording Studios, New York; Steerpike Studios, Il Palagio, Italy; Manhattan Center Studios, New York; The Source, Malibu.
Photographer: Tony Molina.
Arranger: Sting.
It's no secret that Sting is a serious man, so it's only logical that his holiday album -- his first new music since the Police reunion, not that it really matters -- is a serious endeavor, thank you. No niceties for him, no comforts of carols; he favors formal over familiar, writing madrigals, not ditties. It is music made by someone who lives in a castle, which isn't necessarily such a bad thing: the austerity is genuine, not affected, and the cerebral nature of the album is fascinating, albeit mildly so, as this is as sleepy as it is thoughtful. And it's that thoughtfulness that does distinguish IF ON A WINTER NIGHT...; no other Christmas album exists in the head like this. It's a holiday album for people who have never wanted to hear a holiday album, let alone own one.
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