Track Listing 1. Greensleeves - Steve Erquiaga 2. When Earth's Last Picture Is Painted - Richard Schonherz 3. Gathering, The - Tracy Silverman/Thea Suits 4. Silver Swan, The - Paul McCandless 5. Shades of White - Jim Brickman 6. Col Partir la Bella Clori - Joan Jeanrenaud/Steve Erquiaga 7. Moon Lake - W.G."Snuffy" Walden 8. Come All Ye Shepherds - Barbara Higbie 9. Beneath the Trees - William Ackerman/Philip Aaberg 10. Down in Yon Forest - Jeff Johson/Brian Dunning 11. Maiden Chant - Liz Story 12. When Comes December - Tim Story 13. Queen's Prayer - Ozzie Kotani
| Details | | Producer: | Dawn Atkinson (Compilation) | | Distributor: | BMG (distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes Includes liner notes by Dawn Atkinson. This is part of Windham Hill Records "A Winter Solstice" series. One of the most well known productions of the Windham Hill label, which basically invented new age music but prefers the term "contemporary instrumental," has been the WINTER'S SOLSTICE series. Perhaps inspired by the season-based recordings of George Winston, the SOLSTICE albums (which feature tunes from a variety of the label's artists) have always been not Christmas albums per se, but winter albums. Of course, a few Yuletide-oriented tunes do find their way onto this, the anniversary edition of the first volume in the series, but for the most part these are agreeable sonic meditations on a wintry state of mind by the likes of Barbara Higbie, Liz Story, and label honcho Will Ackerman himself. If you listen close enough, you can almost hear the snow falling.
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