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· Year: 2001
· Contributors: Charlotte Church, Kate Winslet
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1. Come Gather Round the Christmas Tree
2. Quis Est Deus - Charlotte Church
3. The Hospital
4. Fezziwig's Jig
5. Three Kings
6. Resolution
7. What If - Kate Winslet
8. The Coventry Carol
9. Nos Galan (Deck the Halls)
10. Scrooge's Theme
11. Marley's Ghost
12. Scrooge Awakes
13. It's the Heart that Matters Most - Charlotte Church
14. The Holly and the Ivy
15. The Reading of the Will
16. The Ghost of Christmas Present
17. Dickens Arrives
18. Cradle Lullaby
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· Soundtrack for the film Christmas Carol: The Movie.
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Amazon.co.uk
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A soundtrack for the animated feature Christmas Carol: The Movie, featuring orchestral, choir, and pop tracks.
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I can respect that the people behind Christmas Carol: The Movie tried to create an approachable, even reverent atmosphere by filling the soundtrack with music from a small choir. Unfortunately, the choir itself, which competent, isn't fantastic, and the recording strikes me as having been done poorly, as if the choir was taped from too far away and in an acoustically inferior location. Only "The Coventry Carol" sounds as if it might have been recorded in a church, which would have lent the appropriate reasonance.
The music itself is approachable but unmemorable, much of it either small but not cozy or emphatic but not dramatic (pardon the rhyme). Track four, "Fezziwig's Jig," is supposed to be raucous, but it's too mannered, and "Marley's Ghost" calls up all kinds of cartoony dread but nothing even vaguely upsetting. Putting Kate Winslet's pop song "What If" in the middle of the album seems an odd choice of location--an incongruous attention-getter at best. (I liked "What If"; you can read my review of it, from a year ago, here.) Lastly, I could have done without Charlotte Church. Take this as a criticism, an observation, or a point of dispute, but she sounds like a boy on "Quis Est Deus," and on the inane "It's the Heart that Matters Most," she falls into the trap Winslet avoided with "What If": overearnestness.
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