Blackmore's Night - Winter Carols (2006)

 Blackmore's Night - Winter Carols - Released Year 2006

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Blackmore's Night - Winter Carols

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1. "Hark the Herald Angels Sing / Come All Ye Faithful"   3:50

2. "I Saw Three Ships"   2:40

3. "Winter (Basse Dance)"   3:07

4. "Ding Dong Merrily on High"   3:16

5. "Ma-O-Tzur"   2:19

6. "Good King Wenceslas"   4:44

7. "Lord of the Dance / Simple Gifts"   3:34

8. "We Three Kings"   4:48

9. "Wish You Were Here" (song from Shadow of the Moon)   5:02

10. "Emmanuel"   3:32

11. "Christmas Eve"   4:20

12. "We Wish You a Merry Christmas"   1:21

Blackmore's Night Band Members / Musicians

Ritchie Blackmore – arrangements, guitar, mandola, nyckelharpa, hurdy-gurdy, percussion

Candice Night – vocals, shawm, pennywhistle

Pat Regan – production, arrangements, keyboards

Sir Robert of Normandie (Robert Curiano) – bass

Sisters of the Moon: Lady Madeline and Lady Nancy (Madeline and Nancy Posner) – harmony vocals

Bard David of Larchmont (David Baranowski) – keyboards

Sarah Steiding – violin

Anton Fig – drums

Albert Dannemann – bagpipes, backing vocals

Ian Robertson and Jim Manngard – backing vocals

Winter Carols is the 6th studio album by the group Blackmore's Night, released in the United Kingdom on October, 2006, and in the United States on November 7, 2006. It is a Christmas themed album. The cover artwork for this album, painted by Karsten Topelmann, is an adaptation of a street in Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Germany, in line with the band's heavy Renaissance influence. The same street is portrayed in the cover of Blackmore's Night's second studio album, Under a Violet Moon. In the cover of "Winter Carols" the street is painted as winter time, whereas Under a Violet Moon's cover takes place on apparently a summer night. While the selections "Winter (Basse Dance)" is credited to Ritchie Blackmore as composer, it is an adaptation of the second section of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Fantasía para un gentilhombre," which Rodrigo composed for classical guitar virtuoso Andres Segovia in 1954.

On December 2006, Winter Carols entered at #7 on USA Billboard New Age Charts.

The album won the New Age Reporter Lifestyle Music Award as the Best Holiday Album.