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During the Christmas season, musicians both amateur and professional often gather with friends for an evening of convival holiday music-making. This recording is intended to recreate that festive spirit in your home. Our best-selling recording.

Track 1: Joy to the world
Track 2: The First Noel
Track 3: Adeste Fideles
Track 4: It Came Upon a MIdnight Clear
Track 5: O Little Town of Bethelem

A first-class string quartet plays tasteful arrangements
in refreshingly ungimmicky style. Warmly recommended for those who like the tunes better than the words.
The Washington Post
A simple string quartet breathes new life into Christmas classics
brings out the natural beauty in the songs of Christmas. This album will substitute nicely if you wont be having a live string quartet at this years Christmas party.
The Christian Science Monitor
These carols arranged for string quartet are done straight, not tongue-in-cheek as in the "What If Mozart Wrote..." series. The instrumentalists are top flight, including star cellist Nathaniel Rosen. This may be the ideal background CD for Christmas Day
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Dallas Morning News
Yuletide listening doesnt come any mellower than this.
The San Francisco Examiner
They make very sweet music together better than most established quartets. Their playing is smooth and polished, and they set all the traditional carols forth in all their purity and simplicity. Musical taste and spirituality meet here. It Came Upon a Midnight Clear sounds like a movement from a late Schubert quartet. Many another sounds like it was written for these four instruments. Almost all the tunes are familiar and much-loved, and none are "messed with" (i.e., given sophisticated arrangements).
A beautiful Christmas gift for chamber music lovers.
American Record Guide
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