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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Reading by the light...
I like Trans-Siberian Orchestra. Their first CD (CHRISTMAS EVE AND OTHER STORIES) is easily one of my top ten favorite Christmas albums. (Maybe even top five.) Two years ago, my wife and I had the pleasure ... Read More
Rating: - The Lost Christmas Eve-C.D. !
This Is A Totally Awesome CD ! This CD Is Worth The Price Just For The Song " Christmas Canon Rock " ! I Just Got The CD And I Haven't Heard A Bad Track Yet-Only Great Tracks So Far !
Rating: - All good stuff for Christmas, but a bit samey
The Trans Siberian Orchestra have become a Christmas Tradition themselves, providing a welcome alternative to the typical seasonal diet of organ music, choirs and crooners.
Their latest offering is typical ... Read More
Rating: - Not for everyone ... but it should be!
The music on this CD is superb. I will now buy the trilogy of which this is the third CD. It is very good rock!!!
The band played on and on,
With no one looking at their watch,
And just when ... Read More
Rating: - The best of Christmas
TSO is the best Christmas concert ever! If you can't be there, you must get the CD.
- The Lost Christmas Eve-C.D. !