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Bringing Josh Groban’s majestic yet intimate voice to Christmas music is truly a gift this holiday season. The young Adult Contemporary star’s fourth studio album brings together the traditional such as Silent Night with the contemporary such as I’ll Be Home For Christmas and the new, Thankful. Featuring duets with Country’s Faith Hill and R&B’s Brian McKnight, and inspirational music’s master choir, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and produced by the illustrious David Foster the album’s wide appeal promises that a timeless Christmas music classic will be beneath the tree this year.
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The Grammy-nominated, twenty-something, pop-classical phenomenon's fourth studio album is an expertly accomplished entry to the holiday marketplace. Noël tackles the familiar sounds of holiday music with a charmingly eclectic array of guest vocalists and a wide range of material. The songs range from the sacred to the secular, while Groban--buoyed in spots by none other than the London Symphony Orchestra--soars in his duets with Brian McKnight, Faith Hill, and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. There's even a song with a gospel choir directed by Kirk Franklin. Produced yet again by crossover maestro David Foster, the arrangements never overwhelm the songs. Groban's smooth and supple vocals can be hard to categorize--seeing how his range is somewhere in-between a high baritone and a low tenor--but he always finds and emphasizes the emotional core of these songs. And whether they have origins in pop or classical music seems not to matter. The addition of messages from troops stationed in Iraq on top of "I'll Be Home for Christmas" is undeniably heart-wrenching, while the album's highlight is its most spare song, "It Came Upon a Midnight Clear," which finds Groban alone at his piano, sounding very much like some kind of angel. --Mike McGonigal
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I haven’t purchased this yet but I definitely will! I am very excited that there’s a French song on this one.
Rating: 4 / 5
Noel
I love Josh Groban Voice. So after this CD please make similar to CD #1 and #2.
I have been playing NOEL cd to my kids and after the song #3 they are already asleep. The funny thing that when I play Frank Sinatra, Perry Como or Garth Brooks Christmas songs my babies jump all over me, begging me to get them a Christmas tree. So I make sure that I don’t play their songs in the summer, but definitely will play Groban’s songs at their bedtime.
Rating: 2 / 5
Noel
What a disappointment when I put this compact disc on the player and all the songs was Chrismas Songs! Don’t make the same mistake I did, people of America! “Noel” means “Xmas” in some other language (I think French). If you’re looking for some honest, mellow, brunch-rock that Joey Grobans is famous for, well, try some Kenny Loggins!
Rating: 1 / 5
Noel
Ok, I’ve bought every single cd of his since day one, loved the first and second was decent but “Noel” is such disappointment, he is very unoriginal, all the songs have same voice, starting off slowly, crescendo style to the climax and slow finish, his voice is unchallenged and nothing new in it. And its nowhere near Chrismas, is he the first to release a xmas cd?? I don’t know how else to say it but he has become extremely boring and predictable, ubelieveably dissapointing.
I’ve purchased literally thousands of CDs but this will be Josh’s last.
Rating: 1 / 5
Noel
A nice voice, but it’s so predictable. After teasing his fans with stretching his creative juices, he falls back on the predictable David Foster-safe arrangements.
Rating: 1 / 5
Noel