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| The Lost Christmas Eve | 
 enlarge | Artist: Trans-siberian Orchestra
Label: Lava
Category: Music
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (157 reviews)
Sales Rank: 271
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.6
MPN: 93146
UPC: 756793146288
EAN: 0756793146288
ASIN: B0002ZDVGS
Release Date: October 12, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Faith Noel | | • | The Lost Christmas Eve | | • | Christmas Dreams | | • | Wizard in Winter | | • | Remember | | • | Anno Domini | | • | Christmas Concerto | | • | Queen of the Winter Night | | • | Christmas NIghts in Blue | | • | Christmas Jazz | | • | Christmas Jam | | • | Siberian Sleigh Ride | | • | What is Christmas? | | • | For the Sake of Our Brother | | • | The Wisdom of Snow | | • | Wish Liszt (Toy Shop Madness) | | • | Back to a Reason (Part II) | | • | Christmas Bells, Carousels and Time | | • | What Child is This? | | • | O'Come All Ye Faithful | | • | Christmas Canon Rock | | • | Different Wings | | • | Midnight Clear |
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Album Description
Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) is back with third and final volume of their Christmas trilogy, The Lost Christmas. The long awaited follow up to the double platinum "The Christmas Attic," features their trademark symphonic rock," which fuses elements of hard rock, Broadway, R&B, and classical music into a unique and distinctive blend of original compositions, symphony excerpts and holiday standards.
Amazon.com
If you're looking for something out of the ordinary for the season, The Lost Christmas Eve is for you. This final entry in the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's rock opera trilogy is perhaps their most ambitious and complex in the series. Like its predecessors, The Lost Christmas Eve tells the story of heaven's youngest angel called back to earth to continue Jesus' unfinished work. This time he lands in New York City to help redeem not only Christmas, but the soul of humankind itself with a story line that rivals anything Frank Capra ever dreamt up for the big screen. Conceived and composed by Aerosmith and Savatage producer Paul O'Neill, most of the song were penned O'Neill, Robert Kinkle, and Savatage founder and keyboardist Jon Oliva, and features the rest of the seminal Florida metal band on the record. While not as bombastic as Savatage's fourteen rock epics which touch on topics as diverse as the Russian Revolution, the 15th century explorer Ferdinand Magellan's descendants, and Beethoven's last night, the record still has a grandiose, almost over-arching baroque feel, with its prog-rock organ swells and electronic alchemy. The best moments are during the soaring instrumentals, on tracks like the "Wisdom of Snow," "Wish Litz," "Christmas Bells, Carousels & Time," and the majestic rendering of "O Come All Ye Faithful." --Jaan Uhelszki
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| Customer Reviews: Read 152 more reviews...
Lost Christmas Eve review December 26, 2008
This album has been reviewed many times with some very outstanding reviewers, so I won't go on ad nauseum about it. I attended one of the TSO concerts and I would classify the album as a great soundtrack to the show. If you have not attended a concert, I encourage you to do so; the experience is magnificent.
 Terrific Rock Christmas CD December 18, 2008
This CD has quickly become my favorite Christmas CD. The combination of catchy melodies and excellent rock performances are unmatched by any other group I have heard.
 Euro-Metal Meets Christmas? December 17, 2008
This CD reeks of Euro-Metal of the worst kind! I give it two stars because there are some decent musicians who play the music. It's just that this music was done and done and done throughout the 80s. I agree with the other reviewers who have said they couldn't believe this music was for real. It is so over the top as to come across as a caricature of bad 80s metal.
The Lost Christmas Eve-Trans-Siberian Orchestra December 17, 2008
I purchased this CD when it came out in 2004.It was love at first sight.This music is so upbeat and has fantastic rock music mixed with classical. I play it at holiday time and throughout the year.This CD always gives me a lift.
 Maybe 3 1/2 suffers from Mannheim comparison December 11, 2008
My wife was very thrilled when a friend of ours unexpectedly gave her this CD as a gift. We had just seen Mannheim Steamroller in concert for the first time and the wife had heard the some of the Trans Siberian instrumental's on the radio so she squealed with delight as the cd went in and the mp3 player was connected.
I however was listening in the background and from my wife's description was expecting something along the same lines as Chip Davis' stuff. I think not.
It's not bad, a more hard rock kind of sound and frankly a less feel for Christmas. Some songs are pretty good, such as Wiszt list but again the emphasis is more toward rock. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't buy it on my own but I buy very little music anyway.
The vocals were not spectacular but weren't bad. This seems to be to be an acquired taste that I just haven't acquired yet but the wife likes it. It could be that I was just expecting something else. Remember Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (Single Disc) and The Godfather Part III - The Coppola Restoration were both ok movies but suffer terribly in comparison with the spectacular movies that came before them (yes even Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (Special Edition).
If you are looking for the next Mannheim Steamroller I'd give it a pass and just pick up more of their stuff. If however you want a new sound that does celebrate Christmas AS Christmas with a harder rock sound then you might have a winner here.
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