VA - A Celtic Heartbeat Christmas (1996)
EAC Rip | 14 tracks | FLAC (tracks) - Cue - Log | Scans Complete | Release: 1996 | 268 MB
Genre: Celtic; Celtic Fusion; Christmas; Ethnic Fusion; International | Label: Atlantic

Each of the songs on Celtic Heartbeat Christmas is a small gem, from the wistfully balladic "Winter, Fire and Snow" by Benita Hill to Cormac Breatnach's lilting whistle on "Oiche Nollaig (Christmas Eve)" and Celtia's lucid, beautiful welcome to the season with "Christmas Pipes." Christmas albums always have replay value when the season returns again, and this one well deserves a fond place in listeners' holiday collections. Highly recommended, both as Celtic music and as a Christmas album.

Tracklist:

01. Fiona Kennedy - Na Hu O Ho
02. Altan - The Snowy Path
03. Clannad - A Dream in the Night
04. Thomas Loefke - The Snowy Birch Trees
05. Anuna - Maria Matrem Virginem (Maria Virgin Mother)
06. Nightnoise - The Wexford Carol
07. Ashley MacIsaac - The Night Before Christmas (The Devil in the Kitchen)
08. Brian Dunning - No Sandman, No Santa
09. Benita Hill - Winter, Fire and Snow
10. Cormac Breatnach - Oiche Nollaid (Christmas Eve)
11. Celtia - Christmas Pipes
12. Declan Masterson - Fairy Child
13. Aine Minogue - Oiche Chuain (Silent Night)
14. Anuna - Angels Are Singing

Total Playing Time: 49' 24"