Description
Majesty & Wonder: An Instrumental Christmas is an instrumental Christmas album by the American singer, songwriter, and guitarist Phil Keaggy, released on Myrrh Records in August 1999, a division of Word. The album was produced by David Schober and Phil Keaggy.
I’d be the first (to admit that Phil is one of Christendom’s GREAT guitarists, a positive maestro of his instrument who can play everything from deep blues to McCartneyesque pop. Now on this set he demonstrates he’s also able to do the John Williams/Julian Bream classical guitar thing, and with an orchestra of London symphonians (credited here the London Session Orchestra) works through a batch of tried-and-tested carols like «Jesus, Joy Of Man’s Desiring», «Coventry Carol», «The First Noel» and «O Holy Night». The effect on the stirring «Nativity Suite» is breathtaking, but more often the effect is so tasteful that it veers dangerously close to lift music. A project which may find support amongst Phil’s loyal band of supporters, but one unlikely to win him many new ones. [Tony Cummings, Cross Rhythms, December 1999]
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CD tracklist:
01. What Child Is This? – 4:12
02. Jésu, Joy Of Man’s Desiring – 3:09
03. Good Christian Men Rejoice – 4:17
04. Silent Night – 5:09
05. Coventry Carol – 3:27
06. O Come O Come Emmanuel – 4:38
07. For Hearth And Home – 5:17
08. Do You Hear What I Hear? – 5:00
09. The First Noel – 3:38
10. Nativity Suite: Visitation – 2:10
11. Nativity Suite: Shepherdsʼ Song – 2:06
12. Nativity Suite: Flight Into Egypt – 3:14
13. O Holy Night! – 3:50
Note: Simultaneously released on cassette and CD by Myrrh Records. Available at Bandcamp: https://philkeaggy.bandcamp.com/album/majesty-wonder
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