Percy Faith – Music Of Christmas (1959/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz]

Percy Faith - Music Of Christmas (1959/2021) [Official Digital Download 24bit/96kHz] Download

This is THE great album of iconic, classic Christmas instrumentals. No doubt at some point in the past half century or so you’ve heard at least a few of Percy Faith’s renditions of Christmas music standards, and listening to this album you will instantly recognize them. There’s a good reason that this recording is ubiquitous: they capture the sound of the Christmas season with near perfection, and even in the jaded 21st caentury, they for the most part song timeless. What lessens the experience with this particular reissue of this album is the very sloppy, indifferent mastering job done by Columbia. You don’t have to get too far into the CD to realize this; the very opening notes of the first track, Joy to the World, are cut off, as if the apprentice engineer who was making the digital transfer was asleep when the tape began running… and no one at Columbia actually gave enough of a damn to fix it! Aside from this, junior the engineer must have also selected a master used for running cassettes or eight tracks, since this is a very compressed and out of balance recording, whIle LP copies are far, far, better-sounding than this. In any event, the music is still wonderful and enjoyable despite the third-rate technical quality of the CD. Hopefully someone at Sony-BMG will one day wake up and do a proper remaster of this wonderful album.

Tracklist:

1-1. Percy Faith – My Favorite Things (Remastered) (02:43)
1-2. Percy Faith – Jesus, Saviour, Pilot Me (Remastered) (03:46)
1-3. Percy Faith – Hark! The Herald Angels Sing (Remastered) (03:02)
1-4. Percy Faith – Nearer My God To Thee (Remastered) (04:04)
1-5. Percy Faith – Deck The Hall With Boughs Of Holly (Remastered) (02:53)
1-6. Percy Faith – The First Noel (Remastered) (03:25)
1-7. Percy Faith – The Lord Is My Light (Remastered) (03:45)
1-8. Percy Faith – I’ll Be Home For Christmas (Remastered) (04:04)
1-9. Percy Faith – God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen (Remastered) (02:48)
1-10. Percy Faith – O Come All Ye Faithful (Remastered) (04:07)
1-11. Percy Faith – Silent Night, Holy Night (Remastered) (03:46)
1-12. Percy Faith – What Child Is This? (Remastered) (03:58)
1-13. Percy Faith – Good King Wenceslas (Remastered) (03:07)
1-14. Percy Faith – The Holly And The Ivy (Remastered) (02:11)
1-15. Percy Faith – In The Garden (Remastered) (03:23)
1-16. Percy Faith – It Came Upon The Midnight Clear (Remastered) (02:46)
1-17. Percy Faith – Holy Holy Holy (Remastered) (02:55)
1-18. Percy Faith – Winter Wonderland (Remastered) (03:18)
1-19. Percy Faith – Lo, How A Rose E’er Blooming/O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Remastered) (04:15)
1-20. Percy Faith – Joy To The World! (Remastered) (02:09)
1-21. Percy Faith – Just As I Am (Remastered) (02:23)
1-22. Percy Faith – O Holy Night (Remastered) (03:46)
1-23. Percy Faith – Abide With Me (Remastered) (03:02)